Example sentences of "it had the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TL was laughably uncomplicated , but , in spite of not being specially designed , it had the splendid advantage of being readily available . |
| 2 | It had the extra amenity of a handbasin . |
| 3 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 4 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 5 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 6 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 7 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
| 8 | Fiona Weir , FoE 's air pollution campaigner , said that the group did not feel it had the necessary expertise or information to produce warnings on " nuclear winter " effects , ozone depletion and acid rain . |
| 9 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 10 | It had the dubious merit of illustrating the spirit which has pervaded his campaign against Daniel Stewart 's and Melville College in Edinburgh since last June . |
| 11 | It had the right colour in it as well . |
| 12 | The University of Texas at Austin is very rich — it had the good sense to find oil on its own land . |
| 13 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 14 | It had the additional advantage that it was well out of the way of prying headquarters staff and was being established as a forward base for the LRDG . |
| 15 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 16 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 17 | If that were so then what I say would be true if it had the appropriate backing , false otherwise . |
| 18 | This one was recorded from the rabbit by W. R. Levick , reference 6 ; it had the receptive field plotted in the centre , and responded to bars at different orientations as shown by the responses round the outside of the figure . |
| 19 | Let me hasten to say that in many schools , particularly in the West Riding , fine education took place , but far from it helping to increase drama in schools , it had the reverse effect for two reasons : ( 1 ) it appeared once more to be something that could only be handled by a specialist — this time a P.E . |
| 20 | With the black , you know it had the black bit as well |
| 21 | As I retreated , putting one foot down in front of the other on the stony path , I reflected that I was tired of this place , that it had the dry consistency of chaff . |
| 22 | It had the desired effect — the gunman tumbled over the top of the fence , landing painfully on his back . |
| 23 | It had the desired effect . |
| 24 | It had the desired effect . |
| 25 | But it had the desired effect of snapping them out of their indecision and galvanising them into action . |
| 26 | It had the desired effect . |
| 27 | During the interval it was a chastened but not dispirited European team which lunched together in the solitude of the team H.Q. We will never learn what was discussed but there is no doubt that it had the desired effect . |
| 28 | The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic . |
| 29 | The strongest weapon in the diehard armoury was the press , for it had the reliable support of the Morning Post , National Review and Spectator , and intermittent backing from the papers of Beaverbrook , Rothermere and Northcliffe . |
| 30 | Quorshi commented that companies would only do this when they were satisfied that both the PC product and the company selling it had the proper standing . |