Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although it clearly had dramatic effects on the nerves of Conservative Central Office there is no evidence of any major shift in voting intentions at that time . |
| 2 | Although it already had a number of blue chip clients , such as Wm Low and the Scottish Development Agency ( and now Scottish Enterprise ) , perhaps what made the firm 's reputation was the way it handled Scottish electricity privatisation for the Government , an appointment made before the Shandwick deal . |
| 3 | The 79-member Constituent Assembly , the majority of whose members were directly elected in December 1990 to draft a new constitution [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ] , voted by 54 votes to nine on June 8 to dissolve the existing Congress on July 2 , although it still had 2@1/2 years to run , and to hold fresh legislative elections on Oct. 27 . |
| 4 | This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees . |
| 5 | Specialix also admits the move to Unix System Labs ' Unix SVR4 has n't gone smoothly as planned , saying that it unexpectedly had to rewrite several device drivers for OEM versions . |
| 6 | Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes . |
| 7 | The term primitive , however , no longer has the pejorative connotation in anthropological , and socio-philosophical writings , that it once had when the evolutionary theory prevailed . |
| 8 | Moreover , the industry is beginning to lose the industrial image that it once had of a strike-torn and unreliable supplier . |
| 9 | It was argued by the LEA that it therefore had no obligation to provide transport . |
| 10 | The Utica/St John 's posse denies , however , that it ever had any kind of gang affiliation or that the current troublemakers are connected with them . |
| 11 | In particular , he seems to have clashed with the IS lobby , with its own project-related concept of study skills and its conviction that it alone had the knowledge and experience in this field . |
| 12 | StorageTek says that it too had put some money up for the development and would have marketed the product even without buying the company — although the Viking was seen as a direct competitor to its own Iceberg , Viking is in fact a simpler device with fewer features . |
| 13 | As he passed the bank next door he noticed that it too had a side passage , but this one was decked out with tiles and had painted walls . |
| 14 | The hot day , my uncomfortable collar made tighter by a tie on this deserted Sunday , made this make-believe rendezvous more unreal than it already had become . |
| 15 | It is notable that he does not see himself abandoning epistemology , but as continuing it , doing it better than it previously had been done . |
| 16 | Rory thought now that his brother must have exaggerated the story , made it more horrific than it really had been , and he certainly did n't believe that Lachy had run away to sea just so that he could wear an eye-patch and pretend he was a pirate . |
| 17 | Lecturing was now easier for him than it once had been — he had , after all , accumulated a great deal of experience — but the readings of his own poetry frequently left him exhausted . |
| 18 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 19 | She nodded rapturously , and suddenly the night was beautiful and the moon shone brighter than it ever had before . |
| 20 | Told him not to let his report run to more than it absolutely had to , and on no account to make a feature piece out of it . |
| 21 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 22 | It provided a perfect roomy family den , and it even had its own door sign — a large red disc used by canoeists for navigation . |
| 23 | And er , it was on the shed roof , on the apex like that and it just had it 's front paws over like that so I quick , got the camera and through the back bedroom window erm , took a picture of it on the shed roof like that , it was just looking ! |
| 24 | And it also had the benefit of requiring very little concentration , leaving her thoughts free to roam . |
| 25 | She might have done it in private — she is fun and without question , a little flirtatious — — but Diana had understood from the start that her public image had to be beyond reproach , and it always had been . |
| 26 | Neither the authorship nor the commission were known to Sotheby 's then , and it too had a similarly low estimate . |
| 27 | She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect . |
| 28 | But then , unaccountably , its initial popularity dropped off , and it only had eight further performances that year . |
| 29 | And it only had the one door . |
| 30 | and it only had one over all the speaker |