Example sentences of "it had [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had blunt little claws on its stubby hands . |
| 2 | In addition , it had nine nursing homes , representing 737 beds , under construction . |
| 3 | It had tall dark trees on each side , with rhododendron bushes behind , then at the end of the drive some great big steps and a massive oak front door . |
| 4 | The result edged Liverpool into ninth place , 11 points behind leaders Norwich , but it had great personal significance for Souness . |
| 5 | It was adjacent to Saint Cloud , but it was of manageable proportions and it had great romantic charm . |
| 6 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 7 | But it had great sentimental value . ’ |
| 8 | I like the , there was , there was a , er big bill board in town , I du n no if you saw it and it says , I think it had Labour right , in really big letters , and they said who 's really behind me , it was a Conservative one , they said who 's really behind them and in it every one there 's like a T U C leader one of the union leaders |
| 9 | In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again . |
| 10 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 11 | It had fourteen fat Egyptian columns supporting the flat roof , and floor-length windows between . |
| 12 | It had that brittle crinkly texture born of much hairdressing , and was ginger , of a brightness to which nature has always been too shy to aspire . |
| 13 | It had its posh end and it had its rough end and it had that strange indeterminate bit in the middle that was neither , but had the pretensions and failings of both . |
| 14 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 15 | It had sixty-three local branches and its pensioners numbered eighty-eight . |
| 16 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 17 | Compared with the 1955 election , the party had 20 fewer seats in the North and 14 fewer in Scotland , conversely , it had 34 more in the South and the Midlands and 5 more in Wales . |
| 18 | It has erm at the last European Election it had five hundred and twenty two thousand voters , so picking the candidate is really the first stage on s trying to get amongst five hundred and twenty two thousand voters . |
| 19 | It had five broken ribs and a cracked skull , and it was brain-damaged for life . ’ |
| 20 | It had small sharp white teeth . |
| 21 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |
| 22 | A man who could and would talk the hind legs back on to an injured donkey , provided it had decent proletarian credentials . |
| 23 | The health-care task force , which is due to deliver its report to the president any day now , has outdone all previous committees on every imaginable measure : size ( it had 500 full-time members and innumerable hangers-on ) , complexity ( it was divided into 15 ‘ cluster groups ’ and 34 working groups ) , rigour ( the heads of the working-groups are now having their work reassessed by ‘ auditors ’ and ‘ contrarians ’ ) ; and , not least , ambition . |
| 24 | It had minimal busted furniture , yellow walls and a gas fire . |
| 25 | It had superb black markings as precise and perfect as a Bewick wood engraving running down its spine ; lighter , more downy plumage covered its chest . |
| 26 | In circular form , with a surmounting cupola , it had four adjacent apses , each with a semi-circular roofing . |
| 27 | Use a little star to indicate which is the asymmetric centre which kiral centre and all it means is that if you were to dra , if you had a a kiral molecule in other words , it had four different groups attached to it what it means is that it and it 's mirror image , this is the way you actually draw it and answer the questions you draw you draw it as if there was a mirror image . |
| 28 | By 1891–95 it had average total deposits of £83 m. — an average individual deposit of £14.75 . |
| 29 | It had strange obtuse teeth , he thought it was part of an old church clock . |
| 30 | It had six million viewers and it 's by far the most popular thing I 've done , but I do think it was watched by all types and ages of people . ’ |