Example sentences of "it had a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
| 2 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
| 3 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 4 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 5 | So you ca n't have a full mortgage but they could n't get a mortgage on it because it had a flat roof . |
| 6 | It had a lethal edge now which cut her to the bone . |
| 7 | It had a round glass eye protruding from the centre of one face , and a lever at the back . |
| 8 | It had a slight curl in it that made her look soft somehow . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , his energy of observation remained constant and again inclined towards the economics of the area : he contemplated one piece of land , a ‘ watery flat ’ , that seemed to have natural drainage possibilities — ‘ it had a visible declivity ’ ; although he allowed that even if he felt it could be reclaimed without ‘ difficulty or expense ’ , these were relative terms . |
| 10 | It had a tarnished brass knocker showing a pixie cobbling shoes and declaring itself to be a present from Cornwall . |
| 11 | Although it was more mundane than its northern contemporary , it had a greater influence on subsequent town planning because it was not conceived as industrial housing but as a genuine attempt to improve living conditions for the working classes and encourage independence . |
| 12 | But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other . |
| 13 | It had a greater impact on prices than previous upswings of comparable magnitude . |
| 14 | It had a lower recorded crime rate per 100,000 people than any of the 41 police areas in England and Wales . |
| 15 | It had a wide brim and a small ventilation hole in the top like a chimney . |
| 16 | In effect , while it had a wide field of reference , at the same time its ability to do things was severely limited . |
| 17 | Iconography as studied by Panofsky and Saxl was always directed towards the history of ideas ; it had a specific philosophical slant , whether Neo-Platonic , Stoic or humanist . |
| 18 | While the visit was , of course , an unofficial one , it had a serious purpose which was made clear by the discussions about the problems facing France . |
| 19 | It had a cellar-like quality about it , with its abundance of wine bottles everywhere , some of them looking quite ancient . |
| 20 | Now , in the soft light from the house , it had a piquant quality . |
| 21 | The difficulty from the outset was that the Treasury would only give approval for mandatory awards for DipHE students if it had a two ‘ A ’ level entry . |
| 22 | This was my favourite song as it was quite easy to sing and it had a stirring , catching rhythm . |
| 23 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |
| 24 | An ‘ unpretending ’ cottage in Rodmell , in the Ouse valley south of Lewes , it had a terrible kitchen , no hot water , no bathroom and a primitive earth closet , which the vendors decided against showing her . |
| 25 | It was a book without merit , ‘ hack-written and poorly illustrated … artistically worthless ’ ( ibid , p.34 ) , yet it had a deep significance and importance for one reader . |
| 26 | It had a deep ‘ sweetheart ’ neckline , little puffed sleeves and a full skirt gathered into three tiers . |
| 27 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 28 | It had a nasty , disfiguring stain running along the whole of the top edge . |
| 29 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 30 | But the build-up to it had a familiar ring about it for Dave . |