Example sentences of "[noun] have it [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
2 | Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review . |
3 | Rumour has it this Achtung Baby thang actually lasts for an hour — the assembly is being treated to a full 36 minutes of footage. this either means that a lot of it is rubbish or it 's so blinking brilliant They could n't show the lot lest our brains exploded with pleasure . |
4 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
5 | Popular myth has it that poor peasants and casual workers in the Third World do not pay tax . |
6 | One estimate has it that British ELT materials are available in more than 100 countries . |