Example sentences of "[noun] it had a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , being a Finnish car it had a left-hand drive . |
| 2 | Even in daylight it had a sombre , suspicious air as if it wished to slink back from the adjoining houses . |
| 3 | It acquired and developed the original photocopier technology and in its heyday it had a virtual monopoly and made huge profits . |
| 4 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 5 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 6 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 7 | In repose it had a curve of sensuality , contradicting the hard , square jawline , and hinting that , in certain circumstances , it could be persuasive and — exciting ? |
| 8 | In the beginning it had a circulation of two thousand ; by 1930 it was selling nine thousand copies per month at ten cents . |
| 9 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
| 10 | The fisheries minister , Thorsteinn Pálsson , justified the move on the grounds that the IWC had in recent years concentrated exclusively on conservation aspects of whaling , while according to its charter it had a twofold task of both conserving and exploiting whales . |
| 11 | And in the in the sixties and seventies it was all the rage , but I 've got the feeling it had a |
| 12 | Very pale with very large bubbles it had a harsh aftertaste and was generally quite disappointing . |
| 13 | Amongst those who were Conservative or Labour before the campaign , press bias had about a 6 per cent effect ; amongst those who originally had an Alliance preference it had a 23 per cent effect ; while amongst those who were originally undecided it had a 28 per cent effect — measuring all these effects in terms of the Conservative lead over Labour ( Table 8.14 ) . |
| 14 | You indicated that er in a sense the strike became well organized in the sense it had a great deal of support erm both moral and material and presumably financial . |
| 15 | Anyhow I gave them some antibiotic powder to put in its drinking water just in case it had a mild infection and they went away happy and said they would tell their friends . ’ |
| 16 | In addition to the other openings it had a curious window-like aperture on the side of the snout with sloping sides , rather like a basin . |
| 17 | Unlike the banned groups it had a large membership and was represented in several state legislatures . |
| 18 | On the other hand it had a large compensation . |
| 19 | Like the Tubwell torrentor it had a disconcerting habit of flooding the road and turning it into a muddy cesspool . |
| 20 | It told magistrates it had a duty to ensure shops complied with the law . |
| 21 | Earlier this century it had a reputation as a treacherous mountain , with lots of accidents on the summit ridge — and it still claims lives . |
| 22 | The evangelical and moral reforming endeavour was not , as we know , new , and throughout the century it had a significant impact on the manner of public life . |
| 23 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 24 | The " Secret Office " in which this skilled and highly confidential work was done dated back to 1653 and was an unpublicised aspect of the new efficiency which the Cromwellian period brought to much government activity ; by the end of the eighteenth century it had a staff of ten . |
| 25 | No doubt it had a great deal of appeal because it suggested that , if someone could afford air travel , he must be a bit of a swinger and must be with it . |
| 26 | For more than a hundred years throughout the Dales of Yorkshire , the pivot of community life , the one platform for self-expression open to everyone was the chapel It had a virtual monopoly on social life , organizing the annual outings , sports days , tea parties and concerts which were the highlights of the year in an era which was starved of communication and leisure and wearied by the constant treadmill of work on the land . |
| 27 | Even on the ramp 's first weekend it had a visitor from the States , a Mr Keith Stevenson who is probably better known as Bill Runaway from Thrasher magazine . |
| 28 | Minutes later , Jack and Ho heard Ray Shepherd 's voice again , but this time it had a more hectoring tone and they knew he was addressing the meeting . |
| 29 | Within a short time it had a waiting list and larger premises were acquired in the Old Kent Road . |
| 30 | But this time it had a note of desperation which rendered it almost novel even to those who had heard it so often . |