Example sentences of "it had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 32 | Moreover , it had serious consequences abroad . |
| 33 | As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions . |
| 34 | Because it had negative assets of £1m , and Cables and Flexibles and Seacoast turned in below-par results , Biermann said there were insufficient distributable reserves to pay a final dividend . |
| 35 | It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross . |
| 36 | While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago . |
| 37 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 38 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 39 | And because it had that name she did n't link it up to other terms like masturbation or whatever . |
| 40 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 41 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 42 | Mrs. Jones did not understand that it had that effect , notwithstanding that the creditor 's solicitor went through the mortgage with her and explained it to her before she signed . |
| 43 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 44 | It had that quality of making you feel like an old friend who had visited there many times before . |
| 45 | Stephen 's voice had risen , as it had that morning in the garden , and again Kate thought that he was trying not to cry . |
| 46 | ( 5 ) The fraud or dishonesty of the vendor In addition to fraud and dishonesty insurers will specifically exclude liability for the wilful failure by the vendor to disclose matters of which it had actual knowledge . |
| 47 | The dog decides it had better police this family itself , and , next thing you know , it is fastening its jaws on disobedient members of the family , its family . |
| 48 | It had central heating , a rarity in the experience of people like us who depended on open coal fires . |
| 49 | ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket . |
| 50 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |
| 51 | It had sparkling white antimacassars new footmats and a splendid technicolour Guru Nanak pasted over its glove compartment . |
| 52 | Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine . |
| 53 | It had small beginnings when Ian Muir , formerly with Cambuslang and West of Scotland , took a team north for a game against Edinburgh at Murrayfield in November 1984 . |
| 54 | 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes . |
| 55 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 56 | It had regular contacts with Constantinople , notwithstanding its northern position ( near the city of Leningrad ) , by means of the river Dnieper and the Black Sea . |
| 57 | Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) a 20-month-old Fiat was held to be unmerchantable because , unknown to the buyer , it had eight months earlier been totally submerged in water for over 24 hours and had consequently been treated as a ‘ write off ’ by its insurer . |
| 58 | He thought he heard the clatter of it in the roads , oh it it had awful stuff of that kind . |
| 59 | It had four companies with only a 67 per cent . |
| 60 | It had four storeys above street level , where importantly there was a boutique ( a shop for the sale of musical instruments ) and atelier ( workshop ) ( document 5 ) . |