Example sentences of "it [verb] had a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Originally a Celtic settlement and later a Roman one , it has had a stormy history . |
2 | While this has not affected sales , it has had a negative impact on profits , Sage noted . |
3 | The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact . |
4 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
5 | As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift . |
6 | It has had a changing intake and many staff believed that recently the ability range of pupils had fallen somewhat . |
7 | Because of its widespread use in technical and scientific English in particular , it has had a strong influence on similar registers in other languages through translation . |
8 | It has had a chequered history , including use as a powder magazine . |
9 | I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me . |
10 | It has had a long and complicated history ; but , at the present day , the form required by law for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land is both uniform and simple . |
11 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
12 | Although black film making in America dates back to the days of the silents , it has had a dismal and frustrating history . |
13 | He says it has had a big impact . |
14 | Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family . |
15 | It has had a long-standing application with the American Department of Transportation to fly from New York to Stansted . |
16 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
17 | Advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself , but IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it |
18 | It has had a symmetric multi-processing version of Unix SVR4 available for its Sparc-based DRS6000 systems on the market for some eighteen months now . |
19 | It has had a profound effect on personal morality — especially on criminality . ’ |
20 | The existing trade embargo , imposed following the September 1991 military coup [ see pp. 38430 ; 38522-23 ] , had failed to produce concessions , and had apparently provided opportunities for the rich pro-coup elite and sections of the army to profit from widespread smuggling , but there was evidence that it had had a devastating impact on Haiti 's economy . |
21 | Thanks to the Dares and the Rossitters , it had had a good start , but all innovations are eyed askance in small villages — and Overclyst was very small indeed . |
22 | As he tackled his cold meat loaf and salad , Hank thought he had better show some interest in his father , so he asked the back page of the newspaper if it had had a good trip . |
23 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |
24 | Athens had been hot and noisy , but it had had a human heart . |
25 | Up at Pusey and it 's had a rear end smash . |
26 | It 's had a terrible effect on the hunt territory . |
27 | It 's had a terrible effect on the hunt territory . |
28 | Well everything looks as though it 's had a good water now . |
29 | I du n no cos it 's had a new exhaust on it . |
30 | So it 's had a new lease of life with that has n't it ? |