Example sentences of "and it have [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch .
2 The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble .
3 The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow .
4 and it had all the paperwork with it , it was gon na be shipped to Singapore .
5 And it was all new fences and it had all been it had been .
6 And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it .
7 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 .
8 The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century .
9 It was adjacent to Saint Cloud , but it was of manageable proportions and it had great romantic charm .
10 In the 1460s , that was an outrage to accepted norms , and it had much to do with their downfall two years later .
11 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
12 It , too , was at another of the world 's maritime crossroads : it was part of the island chain from Asia to Australasia ; it was an important source of sterling rubber and tin ; and it had major naval , army and air installations to house and support strategic reserves .
13 Erm on the overhead before last I I gave you a little equation which demonstrated the importance of measuring single channel currents and it ga and it had implicit in it an open state probability which reflects gating .
14 Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused .
15 Mephenesin was not a good drug : its effects were too short lived , and it had other unwanted effects .
16 And it had other things going for it too .
17 FAMILY 's enemies ( and it had many , most notably among feminists ) were fond of equating its origins with movements of the seventies such as the anti-abortion campaigns , the racialist right and the pro-censorship lobby , and certainly it had drawn members from all these .
18 This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English .
19 It earned its living then , as it does now , by making things , and it had many small to medium firms .
20 Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ .
21 so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts
22 It was a yellow poster and it had shaggy all on it .
23 It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now .
24 and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other .
25 Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks .
26 ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard .
27 I just wondered because we were in Winners once and it had some and he picked them up and he looked at them and he said I do n't think these are the right shape for my car and I know he needs some .
28 Yes a after Chernobyl there was a certain amount of alarm about erm about hill farms , Cumberland and so forth and it 's all gone quiet now , can you update us on what exactly
29 And it used to be , it killed off a good part of our business this year , we used to do a roaring trade in back-dated diaries with accountancy lawyers , and it 's all gone .
30 And it 's all got Christmas lights and
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