Example sentences of "has it that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend has it that Rawlins remembered the lot although yesterday he confessed he might have forgotten one . |
| 2 | Moody thinks that ‘ the final stanza may allude to a variant of Ariadne 's tale , which has it that she did not die of a broken heart but was loved by Bacchus ’ . |
| 3 | ACHINESE proverb has it that if you want to be happy for a week , get married ; for a month , kill a pig ; for a lifetime , plant a garden . |
| 4 | This theory has it that , as a breed , doctors like to be masters of every possible situation , and that this may even be a factor in their selection of medicine as a career . |
| 5 | Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony . |
| 6 | Bazaar rumour has it that as many as 100 of these anti-American clerics have been locked away ; but the government has taken no public stand against them . |
| 7 | Rumour has it that Stevo ( below ) signed some of his first acts , including Soft Cell , while standing on his head . |
| 8 | Gossip has it that Madonna has also captured Beatty 's heart . |
| 9 | Even then , they can lose the post for the most bizarre reasons ; Downing Street myth has it that Richard Cobb failed on his first attempt to get the Oxford Chair of Modern History because he wore bicycle clips throughout his interview . |
| 10 | Convention has it that the source of parallel rays of light is behind the observer 's left shoulder at 45° to the x , y and z axes . |
| 11 | It is little compensation to know that no fewer than six earned themselves the VC ; myth has it that they were all won before breakfast . |
| 12 | Legend has it that he used to angle in the Adige river and that when the waters flooded , many years after his death , they were stopped from breaching the walls of his church by prayers to his memory . |
| 13 | Legend has it that Rhodes , largest of the Dodecanese islands set in the blue Aegean Sea , was home to the sun god Helios … and little wonder given this island 's mild climate and long sun-drenched summer days . |
| 14 | One school of thought has it that William received his regular thrashing for untidy work and was then locked up in a tiny room to rewrite it . |
| 15 | Tradition has it that in times past people brought their sick and weary to the shores of the loch , certain of its curative properties . |
| 16 | One view has it that they are the trusted preservers of law and order , men and women who do a difficult job very well and who deserve to be respected and admired throughout the communities which they protect . |
| 17 | Traditional wisdom has it that there are two sexes . |
| 18 | It could well and easily be replaced by a doctrine which has it that the surgeon 's act carries liability only if good faith and due care and skill can be shown to be lacking . |
| 19 | What possible sense can there be in a legal rule , for example , which has it that a woman is presumed fertile even though she is past menopause or has undergone a hysterectomy operation ? |
| 20 | Legend has it that it was here that Yusuf met his death beneath the hooves of his enemies , steeds ; here also that El Cid received a fatal wound . |
| 21 | Burton-on-Trent is one of the chief centres of the brewing industry , and legend has it that the origin of its pre-eminence was the discovery by a medieval monk that water pumped from the local sandstone after seeping through deposits of gypsum gave beer an excellent flavour . |
| 22 | The family folklore has it that when delirious I had said , ‘ A big black dog sat on the bed and said , ‘ Can I holp you ? ’ |
| 23 | Rumour has it that Bonaparte has panicked and ordered the retreat . |
| 24 | The alternative argument has it that since people and situations differ you are better equipped to deal with them if you have a wide repertoire of behaviours to draw on . |
| 25 | Rumour has it that Spain , off whose coast Britain dumps nuclear waste each summer , may support a ban as well . |
| 26 | Today 's myth has it that the Davy miner 's lamp brought safety to Britain 's coal pits . |
| 27 | An article in the issue of 10 February entitled ‘ Why the safety lamp increased accidents ’ ( p 352 ) is headed ‘ Today 's myth has it that the Davy miner 's lamp brought safety to Britain 's coal pits . |
| 28 | ‘ You 've been seen around London lately with both John D. Hansom and Roderick Luckey , and rumour has it that both men want to marry you . |
| 29 | ( Rumour has it that a diet of Scottish scones and cookies can alleviate some of the effects of lead . |
| 30 | However , popular legend has it that Andrew Patterson , then Headmaster at the Manchester Schools for the Deaf at Old Trafford , was perturbed to counter on several occasions a group of ex-pupils gathered around a certain gas-lamp in the city — the gas-lamp being a popular meeting place of local deaf people ( this was the subject of a Victorian drama as well . ) |