Example sentences of "it [adv] had a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It already had a tatty , dusty look that reminded her of Mr Gerard on Lizard Street . |
| 3 | Dickens denies it ever had a distribution deal to handle the X terminals promised by the troubled Athenix Corporation ( UX No 403 ) . |
| 4 | It still had a north of England feel about it you know . |
| 5 | However , as a milking animal it always had a problem which is still apparent today in some animals : the udders were frequently so pendulous that they were prone to injury and made suckling awkward ( baby beef calves were bucket-reared ) , and later were a problem for machine milking . |
| 6 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
| 7 | It once had a spire which , along with those at Ottringham and Patrington , helped to guide the mariners sailing on the river Humber some two and a half miles to the south . |
| 8 | It also had a smoking room , which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in . |
| 9 | It also had a manufacturing sector producing chemicals , pharmaceuticals , cosmetics , electronics and precision tools . |
| 10 | It also had a door leading into the main house , connecting with the headmaster 's hall , whence Mr Crumwallis made his occasional incursions . |
| 11 | ‘ The customer had a requirement for a stock of components but it also had a lot of outdated engines . ’ |
| 12 | It also had a balancing mechanism contrived from two arching tubes at right angles to one another in a vertical plane . |
| 13 | It clearly had a meaning , and it gave a voice to the peculiar state of tension that seemed to pervade both the place and its owner , and which clashed so oddly with the enormous peace of the landscape . |
| 14 | ‘ It probably had a lot to do with his job but he was a fella who always had a word for you , ’ said Mr Lavery . |
| 15 | Judging by the size of the town , it probably had a population of about 20,000 in A.D. 79 . |
| 16 | By 1966 , the Church was better able to take advantage of the new interest in its separatist stance because it now had a core of Ulstermen who had been converted under Ian Paisley s preaching and who had grown up with his politicized evangelicalism . |
| 17 | Croxford House was given to morning prayers and all the outward trappings of Church of England belief ; it even had a chapel . |
| 18 | ‘ It even had a name , that one , did n't it , what was it now ? ’ she asked . |
| 19 | It even had a name , he could just make out the tiny print . |
| 20 | It even had a shot at controlling motorway service areas , provoking a debate which encapsulated many of the attitudes of the time . |
| 21 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And a particularly important strand to the style was the emphasis on facts and data gathering , rather than conceptualization , to good decision-making ; it therefore had a tendency to place greater trust in administrative bodies than courts . |