Example sentences of "it had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
61 Sure enough , it had four processes around the mouth which looked like antennae .
62 It had four wheels , but that was where the similarity to anything she had ever driven ended .
63 Well that 's right , even with help from upstairs , I mean , if it had four wheels on right , alright .
64 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 .
65 It had long sleeves ; a tightness above imprisoned her neck with its white linen collar .
66 It had deep eaves and little stone eyebrows above each lead-paned window .
67 The Organization of European Economic Co-operation had flourished so much that , by 1959 , it had eighteen members and other countries outside Europe , such as the U.S.A. , Canada , Australia & Japan , wished to join .
68 When viewing a house we were interested in buying , we asked the owner if it had rear access .
69 Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures .
70 And although the proposal for a BPS women 's section was opposed by the women on the BPS Council , it had strong support among less powerful female psychologists , and students .
71 It had various elements : detention upon arrest should only continue if the person was unwilling to identify himself or herself ; or if there was a likelihood that he or she would not turn up at court ; or if there was a need to prevent the continuation or repetition of the offence ; or if the arrest was essential to protect the arrested person or other persons or property or to secure evidence by questioning or other means .
72 It was the widest ramp , it had various height sections , many of the better skaters , the convenience of the nearby shopping precinct , and just the funniest and best skate sessions .
73 Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m .
74 It had Breton blood but , like the Breton , was heavily crossed with the Friesian and became extinct by the 1960s .
75 In military terms , it had sole possession of the A-bomb ; in economic terms , it was in infinitely better shape than the war-torn Soviet Union .
76 An advisory body , it had 45 members representing the LCC , the City of London , six county councils , the Standing Joint Committee of Metropolitan Boroughs and 129 local authorities ranging from county boroughs to rural districts .
77 Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China .
78 Stirling Moss remarked that it had six gears but needed 16 , from which you can gather that it was a bit on the peaky side .
79 At 770p , Sherwood is now valued at £158.8 million compared with the £10.8 million launch price tag it had six years ago .
80 It had six bedrooms , which works out at two each , as well as two bathrooms and about eight downstairs rooms .
81 By the 1780s it had twelve employees ; and complaints against its interference with the correspondence of private citizens figured in a number of the cahiers presented to the States-General in 1789 .
82 It had all sorts of implications .
83 It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics .
84 In 1987 it had 16 sites and 15,000 workers ; now it has 11 sites and 11,000 workers .
85 She did n't catch what he said — his words too soft and indistinct — but his half-grin told her it had smutty connotations .
86 When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day .
87 By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy .
88 The NMA argued from the outset for a negotiated settlement , in part because of a fear that intransigence might lead to total defeat and in part because it had little money with which to fight the strike following the run-down of its funds during the 1921 lockout .
89 Within the orbit of the late Roman world , Christianity was primarily receptive ; it inherited a set of institutions ready-made , conformed to a social and political structure which had developed over a long period , and learned to live with a culture which it had little part in creating .
90 It had little relevance .
  Previous page   Next page