Example sentences of "and it had [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
2 | The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble . |
3 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
4 | and it had all the paperwork with it , it was gon na be shipped to Singapore . |
5 | And it was all new fences and it had all been it had been . |
6 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | It was adjacent to Saint Cloud , but it was of manageable proportions and it had great romantic charm . |
10 | In the 1460s , that was an outrage to accepted norms , and it had much to do with their downfall two years later . |
11 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
12 | It , too , was at another of the world 's maritime crossroads : it was part of the island chain from Asia to Australasia ; it was an important source of sterling rubber and tin ; and it had major naval , army and air installations to house and support strategic reserves . |
13 | Erm on the overhead before last I I gave you a little equation which demonstrated the importance of measuring single channel currents and it ga and it had implicit in it an open state probability which reflects gating . |
14 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
15 | Mephenesin was not a good drug : its effects were too short lived , and it had other unwanted effects . |
16 | And it had other things going for it too . |
17 | FAMILY 's enemies ( and it had many , most notably among feminists ) were fond of equating its origins with movements of the seventies such as the anti-abortion campaigns , the racialist right and the pro-censorship lobby , and certainly it had drawn members from all these . |
18 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
19 | It earned its living then , as it does now , by making things , and it had many small to medium firms . |
20 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
21 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
22 | It was a yellow poster and it had shaggy all on it . |
23 | It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now . |
24 | and then getting all the the chassis numbers and that and welding them on to these stolen cars and Because what , you know , er Siobhan 's dad had a , bought a Montego and I do n't know how it came about but they discovered that erm it had a diff I mean it 's had a Maestro engine in it and it had this that and the other . |
25 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
26 | ‘ By that time , also , there were a lot of blues albums being reissued , like Otis Rush 's ‘ Groaning the Blues ’ which he had recorded in the late '50s with Ike Turner producing , and it had some of the best blues tunes on it , and some of the best playing I have ever heard . |
27 | I just wondered because we were in Winners once and it had some and he picked them up and he looked at them and he said I do n't think these are the right shape for my car and I know he needs some . |