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

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1 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 .
2 A warning , or a threat … it had sinister overtones .
3 It had tiny windows like a prison , and a high brick wall all round it .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It had good ears .
9 Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Nevertheless , it had serious repercussions on one of the housing stresses of London .
13 In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health .
14 Moreover , it had serious consequences abroad .
15 As such it had serious defects : like all other Spanish parties , the Masons were distinguished by their domestic divisions .
16 Because it had negative assets of £1m , and Cables and Flexibles and Seacoast turned in below-par results , Biermann said there were insufficient distributable reserves to pay a final dividend .
17 It had explosive charges laid ready to blow it up , and two small ones went off as the American troops started to cross .
18 ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket .
19 Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine .
20 It had small beginnings when Ian Muir , formerly with Cambuslang and West of Scotland , took a team north for a game against Edinburgh at Murrayfield in November 1984 .
21 1.15 In Gregory 's case the plaintiff , who was injured in a way that could have been avoided by wearing a seat belt , suffered a 40 per cent total reduction since he was also travelling as a passenger in a car knowing that it had defective brakes .
22 It had regular contacts with Constantinople , notwithstanding its northern position ( near the city of Leningrad ) , by means of the river Dnieper and the Black Sea .
23 It had long sleeves ; a tightness above imprisoned her neck with its white linen collar .
24 It had deep eaves and little stone eyebrows above each lead-paned window .
25 Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures .
26 It had various elements : detention upon arrest should only continue if the person was unwilling to identify himself or herself ; or if there was a likelihood that he or she would not turn up at court ; or if there was a need to prevent the continuation or repetition of the offence ; or if the arrest was essential to protect the arrested person or other persons or property or to secure evidence by questioning or other means .
27 She did n't catch what he said — his words too soft and indistinct — but his half-grin told her it had smutty connotations .
28 When she came back from changing , her haircut was a boy 's , except that it had new-born-looking curls at the nape of her neck , which knocked him out for a bit .
29 So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah .
30 It had new orders .
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