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

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1 The status of a small-town or country station would be marked by whether it had a women 's waiting-room or not .
2 It had no lights of its own , but the lights from the room behind glinted on its bits of tinsel .
3 During World War II MI6 produced few worthwhile results , largely because it had no agents in place before Hitler occupied the whole of Europe .
4 It had no windows ; neither did Hayman .
5 We chartered a STOL ( short take-off and landing ) aircraft from the Summer Institute of Linguistics , a missionary organisation , and flew to Loreto , which from the map appeared to be a promising area for collecting as it had no roads and therefore no colonists .
6 It had no guts left in it .
7 Japan 's stimulus to the regional economy — it had no resources , except human capital — it is now the non-Communist world 's second most important industrial power ;
8 That was before planning was controlled by law , and it had no conditions attached .
9 It had no curtains , no sign above the door , the door was not wide and welcoming , the forecourt was dirty , and there was at least one broken pane in each window .
10 It had no teeth .
11 JOHNSON MATTHEY , the precious metals to chemicals group , was given a respite from takeover speculation yesterday after its biggest shareholder , Charter Consolidated , said it had no plans to change its 38 per cent stake .
12 JOHNSON MATTHEY , the precious metals to chemicals group , was given a respite from takeover speculation yesterday after its biggest shareholder , Charter Consolidated , said it had no plans to change its 38 per cent stake .
13 Japan , Thailand 's principal foreign investor , expressed surprise at the coup , but stated that it had no plans to sever aid .
14 The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) announced on 24 that it had no plans to abandon Kabul .
15 It had no wheels and the horse was harnessed to two long shafts that he dragged along the ground .
16 It had no hands .
17 After what seemed like ages we popped out of the cloud and confirmed our dead-reckoned position as overhead the airfield of Vila Real , where we would have landed but it had no avgas .
18 Once or twice she looked into her sister 's book , but it had no pictures or conversations in it .
19 ’ Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do ; once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading , but it had no pictures or conversations in it' and what is the use of a book' thought Alice , 'without pictures or conversation ? ' . ’
20 Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same .
21 It was a language that had never failed ; it had no ambiguities ; it could cope with all emergencies .
22 It had no eyes that Rincewind could see , but he was nevertheless sure that it was staring at him .
23 He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him .
24 It had no sharps or flats and was based on a six-line stave — instead of the five-line one which is usual for musical notation .
25 It had no candles .
26 The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly .
27 Wirral was portrayed as being a community in a state of shock caught up in a problem for which it had no explanations or obvious solution .
28 It had no requirements for audit , no requirements to submit accounts to the Charity Commissioners and no requirements to issue accounts to the public .
29 Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower .
30 In all this my life was not novel , except that it had no witnesses , because I was an only child .
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