Example sentences of "it had the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had the help of finance from the Welsh Development Agency and publicity from Nicholas Edwards , the Secretary of State for Wales , who provided a video-taped message for the launch . |
| 2 | Unknown to the androids , it had the ability to monitor their life functions and activities . |
| 3 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 4 | The government had to retreat over a plan to sell British Leyland trucks to America 's General Motors — partly because of a rooted popular affection for Britain 's ‘ Land Rovers ’ , partly because it had the air of a Westland mark II . |
| 5 | It had the foresight to see the possibilities of trade with the newly arrived Ottoman power which had moved into the Bosnian hinterland , and , armed with a papal dispensation from Urban V , Ragusa became the first Christian power to enter into treaty relations with the infidels . |
| 6 | That 's why it had the runs ! |
| 7 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 8 | For all that , it had the feel of a city wakening up after a long sleep and beginning to shake off decades of despair . |
| 9 | It was true , it had the feel of truth : the woman had n't just fallen over a cliff . |
| 10 | It had the feel of it this little garden you know , the doors , the paintwork everything about it it gave you that feel . |
| 11 | I mean you have the idea , you want to expand advertising , which means you 've got to spend more money and you said it was never given the go ahead , who at the end of the day would decide about whether it had the go ahead or not ? |
| 12 | To the north the Corridor had a sea coast of 76 km ; to the south it had the river Notec and the Notec canal . |
| 13 | It arose from a groundswell of opinion in the EC that the internal market would be a success only where it had the support of both ‘ sides ’ of industry and if it was designed to benefit every citizen of the Community . |
| 14 | The committee claimed that it had the support of 90 per cent of the area 's population and noted that representatives of the IDA , IIRS , AFF , Raybestos and the trade unions did not attend , despite being invited . |
| 15 | According to the rules then extant , a national strike could only be called by the NUM if it had the support of at least 55 per cent of the members voting in a secret ballot : the union prided itself on its democracy in this context . |
| 16 | Although it had the support of the United States and France , acceptance of the report was vetoed by five Security Council members , including Austria , China , Cuba and Zimbabwe . |
| 17 | No I 'm stopping in with our kid , you know , and you could n't impose on , on so er if there was fisticuffs , fights , falling out , I 'll fetch our kid , I 'll fetch our wench , I mean there we you used to , honestly and truthfully , you , you used to feel it , you know erm because when there was any trouble , problems or like that there was always somebody to share it well it had the advantages in some ways , perhaps you was er had a little bit more luxuries than the f bigger family , but i in my mind that did n't make up for the companionship of brothers and sisters , no b b b b that , that 's w how I put it anyway . |
| 18 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 19 | The fire was not lit and the room did n't seem as cheerful and welcoming as it had the night before ; they broke their fast quickly on warm oat cakes and mulled wine , saddled their horses and rode back along the track to the highway . |
| 20 | It had the kind of social content which stirred him . |
| 21 | All pipelines and white stones , it had the look of an alien landscape . |
| 22 | It had the look of a college scarf . |
| 23 | Sucralose is one of the few products to come out of the Reading research labs that T&L felt it had the resources to develop through to the market . |
| 24 | It crept towards the table where breakfast was laid , and it had the demeanour of a creature that was n't loved and yet must survive . |
| 25 | Er and again , you 'll see on one of the 's photographs I 've got , it shows , just to the right hand side as you 're looking at the front of the main archway , erm it had the legend , Railway , parcels receiving office . |
| 26 | With the hood up , a half opaque windscreen , only one wiper and no indicators , it had the visibility equal to driving a tank . |
| 27 | It had the glamour that attaches to other people 's privileges ; Barbara did not resent the lack of advantages her own parents had given her , but she wanted those advantages for her own children . |
| 28 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 29 | It had the advantage of not only offering a system of training ( that it was intended by Rudolf Laban for the retraining of ballet dancers did not deter physical educationalists from transferring it to colleges and schools ) , but also of offering a rationale . |
| 30 | It was important to remember the parish office was the first point of contact ; it had the advantage of local knowledge and should be used . |