Example sentences of "it had its [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It had its rough times , very rough times , ’ remembered Miss Hayes , who never remarried . |
| 2 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 3 | It had its famous university at Padua ( from which , it may be remembered , the learned doctor Bellario was to come to defend Antonio against Shylock in The Merchant of Venice . |
| 4 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 5 | It had its usual effect . |
| 6 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
| 7 | It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) . |
| 8 | If Docherty 's dismissal from the manager 's job at Manchester United had unspoken religious undertones , it had its greatest impact on a close-knit catholic family back home in Glasgow . |
| 9 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 10 | Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent . |
| 11 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 12 | Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary . |
| 13 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 14 | It was different from England : it had its own systems of law and education , its own church , currency , literature , music . |
| 15 | By 1907 it had its own herdbook and numbered about 35,000 . |
| 16 | He 'd got some internal engine — it drove him , it had its own reasons , it propelled him and off he went . |
| 17 | It had its own liturgy and Mass , both of which incorporated distinctly Eastern , non-Roman elements . |
| 18 | And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them . |
| 19 | It had its own inquiry desk , and a girl took me to Lennis at once . |
| 20 | But Fordism — it is argued — was established in the UK and , moreover , it had its own geography . |
| 21 | It had its own brickworks , cloth mill and farms , and was largely self-sufficient . |
| 22 | It had its Arcadian examples — like all revolutions it dug into antiquity for help and respectability and dynamic metaphors — and Mary could be seen , that morning , in woods as sun-speckled as a thrush 's throat , as a shepherdess from the Hellenic world , a Grace from their pagan earth-suckled legends , but above all a spirit of the place . |
| 23 | But it had its positive aspects . |
| 24 | It had its sixty-four pages , some in smudgy Today -style colour , some in glossy heat-set colour , and most in good old black and white . |