Example sentences of "it had [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Idealism , then , simply did not look as if it had much to say about the major events in international relations in the 1930s . |
| 2 | In the 1460s , that was an outrage to accepted norms , and it had much to do with their downfall two years later . |
| 3 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 4 | The eighth-century chronicler Bede adopted the year-numbering system in his historical works and its use spread , for in a Christian country it had much to commend it . |
| 5 | It had that mixed smell of face powder , lipstick and everything else that goes into a woman 's purse . |
| 6 | It had that dogged look about it . |
| 7 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 8 | It had Arnsat-1 painted on its side , which was a bit of a waste of paint since stars ca n't read . |
| 9 | Peter was saying what er a good do it was how it had all gone well . |
| 10 | That was we were using that white stuff , you know thirty , thirty six ? off his hand where it had all dried and he rolled it up in a ball and hit me in the face with it , that hurt . |
| 11 | Since there were few Third World states in the 1960s willing to offer the USSR the military facilities it desired it had little to lose from supporting the principled opposition of the non-aligned group to foreign military bases . |
| 12 | It had little to do with the real Queen Anne architecture of the early eighteenth century , but merely borrowed some of its features , such as , here at Linkenholt : the thick glazing bars on the dormer windows , the shell-shaped pediment over the central dormer , and the gently hipped roof lines . |
| 13 | It had little to do with The Smiths . |
| 14 | It had little to do with science in society , and writers Lawrence Moore and Robert Young seemed slightly self-conscious about this , using the words ‘ science ’ and ‘ technology ’ as much as possible in relation to management , roller coasters et al to compensate . |
| 15 | Though it had little to differentiate itself from its colleagues , apart from double ring-grips at both head and foot , its construction was more elaborate than the standard framed and panelled model — thus it was more expensive and carried a certain snob value . |
| 16 | This was an old carriage , but still well capable of performing the task set for it when it had first joined the rolling-stock in the year that Holly had been born . |
| 17 | The Court had a discretion on a reference by the Attorney-General ; it had first to decide whether the sentence was too lenient , and then whether it was unduly lenient . |
| 18 | He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing . |
| 19 | It had first opened in December 1948 , sporting leopard-skin covered stools and a bamboo-festooned bar . |
| 20 | On the same day that he received Palmerston 's letter , he replied that he had not intended to say that Gothic was re-established as the leading English architecture of the day , but rather its history and origin made a strong case for its revival in those countries where it had first flourished . |
| 21 | Israel had been subjected to similar harsh international criticism when it had last deported a group of Palestinian activists , in May 1991 [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 22 | Three years after disaffiliation and the beginning of the United Front the ILP had less than one third of the membership on which it had last affiliated to the Labour Party . |
| 23 | ‘ It did n't have to stop there for re-fuelling — it had enough to land elsewhere . ’ |