Example sentences of "it had [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It had its rough times , very rough times , ’ remembered Miss Hayes , who never remarried .
3 It had its famous university at Padua ( from which , it may be remembered , the learned doctor Bellario was to come to defend Antonio against Shylock in The Merchant of Venice .
4 As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough .
5 It had its usual effect .
6 The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized .
7 It has been debated on several occasions and it had its Second Reading in May 1989 when it was introduced by my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing , Acton ( Sir G. Young ) .
8 If Docherty 's dismissal from the manager 's job at Manchester United had unspoken religious undertones , it had its greatest impact on a close-knit catholic family back home in Glasgow .
9 It was still a walled city , the walls were all virtually intact , the castle was a bit ruinous , but it was there , and it had its four main gates , erm East Gate on the important London Road going out past Magdalen and over Magdalen Bridge , erm the North Gate here , the Westgate by the Castle , and then still existing then but not in your map if you can find it , the South Gate across the road , just at the bottom of Christchurch , can you find Christchurch on your map ? erm Now , perhaps you can that there 's a difference in Christchurch on your map with this one .
10 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 .
11 Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent .
12 It had its first official meeting after a Union talk on heterosexism .
13 Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
14 It had its own brickworks , cloth mill and farms , and was largely self-sufficient .
15 When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time .
16 Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies .
17 By 1907 it had its own herdbook and numbered about 35,000 .
18 He 'd got some internal engine — it drove him , it had its own reasons , it propelled him and off he went .
19 Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river !
20 Robert Luterell , younger brother of Sir Geoffrey Luterell , who commissioned the famous Luterell Psalter , gave his house called ‘ the Gannoc ’ on St. Peter 's Street for use as a school , and it had its own chapel of St. Mary .
21 It was different from England : it had its own systems of law and education , its own church , currency , literature , music .
22 Like any vast industrial complex , it had its own substantial railway sidings to move and accept train loads of iron ore and to ship the completed products en route to its customers worldwide .
23 It had its own liturgy and Mass , both of which incorporated distinctly Eastern , non-Roman elements .
24 But Fordism — it is argued — was established in the UK and , moreover , it had its own geography .
25 It had its own permanent staff ; hence user — staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups .
26 It had its own unique ways of safeguarding objects in its care , and its own ways of keeping the galaxy 's criminal predators at bay .
27 It had its own inquiry desk , and a girl took me to Lennis at once .
28 He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience .
29 And as I said , it , it was er , it , it , it , it was , it was denigrated but it had its own strengths , and the Margaret case er , is , is one of them .
30 It said it had its own , better , plans for the land and , in any case , there was already substantial spare capacity in the tanker refitting business .
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