Example sentences of "it had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But Washington said that while it had prior knowledge of the plot hatched by three disaffected officers , it did not actively back it . |
| 3 | Because this had been stated in the debate , Mr Sproat explained , it had legal standing and could not be overturned at a later date . |
| 4 | It had nine tins of cream in it . |
| 5 | ‘ It had sixteen teeth in the top jaw , ’ Albert said , ‘ which means its wisdom teeth too . |
| 6 | The district benefited from the fact that it had comparative information on performance from a large range of providers which enabled them to take a more detached view of the strengths and weaknesses of its own unit , even though it also increased the complexity of contracting . |
| 7 | It was nothing really radical in terms of modern design — even apart from Malcolm having adapted it from a picture — but it had great presence . |
| 8 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |
| 9 | But it had great difficulty in finding the necessary funds for this purpose , and , partly for this reason and partly because of sheer bureaucratic inefficiency , the payment of the subsidies was always much delayed . |
| 10 | Under the auspices of Scottish/Canadian editor Andy Gray , the paper was faced with a dilemma and one that it had great difficulty resolving , namely how a paper still steeped in show business traditions could come to terms with a new music that was deliberately and defiantly anti-commerciality and the supposed ‘ circus ’ of the pop world . |
| 11 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 12 | It had Elder Seth 's voice . |
| 13 | Oil Mill was particularly well placed for transport , for it had easy access to the road , canal and railway , a special branch line running from the latter across a substantial iron bridge to the rear of the mill , allowing direct loading and unloading . |
| 14 | It had seventeen degree courses in operation , and was setting itself a target of 6–8000 full-time student equivalents by the early 1980s . |
| 15 | The Ribera exhibition now at the Prado until 25 August was a popular success in Naples ' Castel Sant'Elmo , whose romantic fastnesses suited the shadows of the artist 's style ; in the two and a half months until 17 May it had 80,000 visitors , which in Italy , for a serious exhibition , is a large number . |
| 16 | It had black sheets on it , and George was not sure if that was their original colour or just the result of years of use . |
| 17 | A warning , or a threat … it had sinister overtones . |
| 18 | It had tiny windows like a prison , and a high brick wall all round it . |
| 19 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 20 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 21 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 22 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 23 | It had good ears . |
| 24 | Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year . |
| 25 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 26 | The gravest doubt which has assailed historians about Charlemagne 's moral and educational programme is whether it had much effect . |
| 27 | Christians quote from the Bible as if it had divine authority . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | His work was swiftly taken up in Germany , where it had close relations with that of Weber and Kohlrausch ; and it was there that H. R. Hertz , for whom Maxwell 's theory was no more than Maxwell 's equations , demonstrated the existence of electrical or radio waves in accordance with the equations . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it had serious repercussions on one of the housing stresses of London . |