Example sentences of "it had an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A century later , it had an adoptive daughter to weep for : 20-year-old Marie Mancini , niece of Louis XIV 's minister Mazarin . |
| 2 | by no means an exact circle , it had an approximate radius of 12 miles from Charing Cross , though with a few wedges penetrating into inner London , most notably at Totteridge and Mill Hill . |
| 3 | It had an embryonic artistic colony of sorts ; the kind of place I might plausibly choose to go to . |
| 4 | Although , like the other papers in the group , it had an African editor and staff , final editorial control was in white hands and there was usually close white supervision . |
| 5 | It had an industrial setting ; but those who saw it in South Africa began to apply its idea . |
| 6 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 7 | However well placed the site might be for access to trade routes , it had an unhealthy climate and was in Spanish territory . |
| 8 | By 1700 it had an outer polygonal timber palisade one sazhen high ( a sazhen is 2.13 metres ) and 1,500 sazhens in length , with five towers set into it . |
| 9 | Like Malvern Mill it had an overshot wheel , of 12 feet in diameter , and although this no longer exists , traces of the machinery do . |
| 10 | When Mrs Chamberlin had gone , hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon , her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind , Alexandra looked round the drawing-room and saw it had an animated , unsettled look , as if the last caller had stirred everything to action , all the silver photograph frames , the vases and pin-cushions , the rugs and cushions and shaded lamps . |
| 11 | It had an internal look , something sinisterly tubular running through stringy meat . |
| 12 | It had an armed branch , the National Guard , which took over KGB headquarters and surrounded the radio and television studios . |
| 13 | I always use this kind of music as part of the test sequence ; here it had an extraordinary naturalness , a quite seamless integration from bass to soprano , which one immediately recognises as true . |
| 14 | It had an invulnerable parliamentary majority . |
| 15 | It had an ancient cooker and sink . |
| 16 | They never changed the booth they sat in and they found that nobody was ever sitting in it as if it had an invisible reserved sign hanging above it . |
| 17 | I mean , when I , when I was a kid I got , erm , I was given an Australian doll baby , and which was funny cos it had an amazing sun tan and dark blue eyes and blonde hair , like typical Ozzie child . |
| 18 | If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it would n't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese . |
| 19 | ‘ It had an actual gate in it , ’ he added . |
| 20 | It had an immediate effect , causing a long term , and dramatic drop in the Club 's profits . |
| 21 | We 're going to be looking at Lewes in the period during the late middle ages , early modern period , when it had an unchartered corporation , how the town was governed and so on . |
| 22 | We 're going to be looking at Lewes in the period during the late middle ages , early modern period when it had an unchartered corporation , how the town was governed and so on . |
| 23 | Vinelott J rejected the SFO 's argument that it had an untrammelled right to require the production and use of the evidence in the transcript ; that argument had been advanced and rejected when the liquidators applied for an order to examination ( In re Arrows Ltd [ 1992 ] 2 WLR 923 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Women and film ’ would make a great movie if it had an international , multicultural cast and would address all these questions at once . |
| 25 | In 1947 it had an average daily circulation of 2 , 134,000 copies but in 1961 it only sold 1,394,000 copies . |
| 26 | By the early part of the 18th century , a forge occupied the site , and by 1736 it had an annual output of around 60 tons . |
| 27 | It had an educative purpose , and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions . |
| 28 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 29 | It had an American tinge , and it was light and pleasant . |
| 30 | It had an active business operation side and Seaforth — the container port — was still being built . |