Example sentences of "has [indef pn] to " in BNC.

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1 It 's irrelevant … corruption , graft , propping up tyrants , accumulating wealth at the altars … fertility goddess … bullshit … phallic worship … look at Galileo … this has nothing to
2 In the European scheme of things , England has nothing to be ashamed of .
3 But this has nothing to — ’
4 My group has nothing to be ashamed of , but , like everybody else nowadays , we suffer from a general shortage of cash .
5 She has nothing to be envious of , if only she knew , Belinda thought wearily .
6 Every person , whether at the most junior or the most senior level , has someone to whom he or she is accountable for doing the job properly .
7 So she has plenty to be pleased about — in addition to being the beautiful butt of the TV men 's admiring jokes .
8 McEniff himself has plenty to be confident about .
9 He too ( ‘ birds of a feather ’ ) has nobody to be , and the ice-cold comedy of his father/photographer/landowner mélange projects the disjunctive genius of Crime and Punishment on yet another plane .
10 She never comes because he hangs himself , she has nobody to be nurse to , but her journey — were she to have made it — would prove as nugatory as his .
11 It is not quite the setting the founders of the game envisaged but it has something to be said for it .
12 These two paragraphs are quoted in his book Modern Fantasy by Dr C. N. Manlove , who then goes straight on as usual to spearhead the critical assault and declare : and Dr Manlove goes on to cite a well-known Ubi sunt passage from the Old English poem and to observe that ‘ This is real elegy , for it has something to be elegiac about ’ .
13 This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to .
14 The devil has something to be said for him : he acts on his own initiative and is n't just following orders .
15 ‘ I was thinking that an obviously romantic setting has something to be said for it .
16 Has everything to be drummed in a hundred times ?
17 Has everything to be taken like this ?
18 I do not think that the Labour party has anything to crow about , because Labour-controlled local authorities have the most empty homes available and have the highest community charges .
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