Example sentences of "as it had [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We chartered a STOL ( short take-off and landing ) aircraft from the Summer Institute of Linguistics , a missionary organisation , and flew to Loreto , which from the map appeared to be a promising area for collecting as it had no roads and therefore no colonists . |
| 2 | The machine was not really a steam engine as it had no moving parts . |
| 3 | At first , the committee was not -very successful as it had no staff , and a body of twenty-four to twenty-eight members is not very effective for cross-examining witnesses . |
| 4 | The Bike Sub-Committee was still being urged to proceed , yet a month later the subject was adjourned , only to be urged on again the month following — ‘ so long as it had a corrugated iron roof ’ , presumably a financial stringency to keep the cost down to £15 . |
| 5 | The last straw was when a totally serious Westite Unionist remarked that , as it was a shooting matter , he recommended that it should be left to the army to investigate as it had a lot of experience of shootings of one kind and another . |
| 6 | The leisure and recreation convener , Charles Farquhar , said it gave the council no pleasure to raise the charges , as it had a high regard for the people who ran the teams . |
| 7 | This was not true , but in a largely illiterate society the snowball effect of malicious rumours worried the Bolsheviks , as it had the Tsarist officials before them . |
| 8 | Miss Watson 's appearance when she opened the side door alarmed Miss Fogerty quite as much as it had the small boy . |
| 9 | We planned to use the north-south route through Tamanrasset in Algeria as it had the greatest number of watering points . |
| 10 | It was more adaptable and was less expensive as it had the quality of being effective , whether richly ornamented or not . |
| 11 | If October were to bring its usual weather , as indicated by the records , and as it had the previous year on the Somme , conditions would be almost beyond endurance and attack impossible . |
| 12 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( CI No 1,697 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 13 | There have already been suggestions that Wang 's deal with IBM to sell the RS/6000 has not lived up to expectations — in June 1991 IBM took a stake in the financially troubled company , in return for which Wang agreed to sell the AS/400 and RS/6000 machines ( UX No 39 ) , but late last year said that it would not be adding to its stake as it had the right to do under terms of the agreement . |
| 14 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 15 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 16 | The wind grabbed him under the arms and flipped him outwards and back as it had the torn raven banner already . |
| 17 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 18 | Jimmy Johnson sank his teeth into the family 's bull terrier as it had the arm of an 11-year-old boy locked in its jaws . |
| 19 | The fire was not lit and the room did n't seem as cheerful and welcoming as it had the night before ; they broke their fast quickly on warm oat cakes and mulled wine , saddled their horses and rode back along the track to the highway . |
| 20 | 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 . |