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 . |