Example sentences of "it [adv] had [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of 1976 the IDA selected a site in Lough Beg for which it already had outline planning permission for dumping . |
| 2 | Chances are if you bought your racket in Britain it already had strings in it — unlike in the USA where the retailer will ask you a lot of questions about how you play and then string your new frame for you . |
| 3 | Iraq did not need a nuclear device , because it already had stocks of binary chemical weapons and , he went on , any country which threatened Iraq with an atomic bomb would be " annihilated " by the chemicals . |
| 4 | The troopers were scattering away from Christine , thrashing through the foam , well aware that although the executive transporter had no weight , it still had mass , and hence momentum . |
| 5 | The Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 6 | Commenting on its reduced second quarter loss ( figures , page seven ) , Data General Corp said that while it was n't satisfied with its overall results , it was encouraged by the continued success of its AViiON family of Unix computers , which showed significant growth over the year-ago quarter , and it remains cautious for the short-term because of the weak worldwide economy and because it sees no evidence that industry-wide pricing pressures will abate in the near future ; the Westboro company is able to shrug off the small but steady and grinding losses because it still had $196.2m in cash and marketable securities at the end of the quarter . |
| 7 | If that was the case , it seemed unlikely that he would ever be able to return safely to the Middle East , but three months later , the DIA showed it still had plans for him . |
| 8 | To them it still had meaning . |
| 9 | They had such a tiny life cycle it still had trainer wheels on it . |
| 10 | But it still had transverse-leaf springing . |
| 11 | He was very impertinent about my wine and said it always had pieces of cork floating in it . |
| 12 | As is the way of coast guard stations , it once had waves lapping at its doorstep . |
| 13 | It clearly had advantages from the organisational point of view . |
| 14 | It now had members in Stormont and increasing popular support and , more importantly , it had a clear Protestant identity . |
| 15 | Jewelled with moisture , it now had pride of place in my fridge . |
| 16 | However , it definitely had potential . |
| 17 | If it occasionally had Cnut in difficulties , it also offered him considerable opportunities , and it is no less generous to the historian , who is better informed upon it than any other aspect of Cnut 's rule . |
| 18 | It too had space for gardens and car-parks , and both had vast concourses . |