Example sentences of "it had two [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It had two long handles called ‘ stangs ’ , like the shafts of a horse-drawn wagon .
2 This policy may have seemed ‘ reasonable ’ to the civil service , but it had two major flaws .
3 It had two internal courts , with the principal office entrance from the east , a secondary entrance from Downing Street , and the entrance to the Foreign Secretary 's residence under a porte-cochère from the park .
4 Although there is nothing particularly unusual in this degree of favouritism , it had two serious consequences :
5 It had two vertical cylinders with direct rod drive to cast-iron wheels with shrunk-on tyres of wrought iron , the first of their type ; most importantly , it pioneered the discharge of exhaust steam through a converging nozzle blast pipe , in the chimney , greatly increasing combustion intensity and steam production .
6 In introducing the predicative construction in Section 3.2 we stated that it had two positive characteristics : completeness , which we regard as primary ; and the secondary characteristic of making explicit the validity of the subordinate property for the entity qualified .
7 It had two main effects , the first of which was beneficial , in that the School gained a certain measure of independence from the Town Council , for various other public bodies were invited to nominate Governors .
8 It had two fulling stocks , a gig mill and in addition , a grist mill , not an uncommon combination .
9 Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality .
10 And when a police officer went to examine the Nissan Cherry he discovered that it had two bald tyres .
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