Example sentences of "it [verb] have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks .
2 All right , many of the audience would find it puzzling to have a middle-aged woman playing the juvenile role , but some of the audience would recognize just what they were hearing .
3 It needs to have the necessary quality of confidence about it. ) 4 Whether the relevant information can be easily isolated from other information which the employee is free to use or disclose This to some extent relies on the intelligence and honesty of the employee .
4 Originally a Celtic settlement and later a Roman one , it has had a stormy history .
5 While this has not affected sales , it has had a negative impact on profits , Sage noted .
6 As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift .
7 As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament .
8 The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact .
9 It has had a changing intake and many staff believed that recently the ability range of pupils had fallen somewhat .
10 Because of its widespread use in technical and scientific English in particular , it has had a strong influence on similar registers in other languages through translation .
11 It has had a chequered history , including use as a powder magazine .
12 I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me .
13 France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism .
14 He says it has had a big impact .
15 Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family .
16 It has had a long-standing application with the American Department of Transportation to fly from New York to Stansted .
17 While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it .
18 Advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself , but IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it
19 It has had a symmetric multi-processing version of Unix SVR4 available for its Sparc-based DRS6000 systems on the market for some eighteen months now .
20 It has had a profound effect on personal morality — especially on criminality . ’
21 Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them .
22 It has had the natural result of generally tending to increase the harshness of punishment — and consequently the size of the prison population and the scale of the penal crisis .
23 For some years , it has had an associate office in Accra , Ghana 's capital city .
24 It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor .
25 And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes .
26 And his kiss when it came had a new depth and intensity born of the freedom they had both found during the past moments .
27 Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste .
28 It seemed to have a good deal going for it .
29 Heading south and with part of it reportedly burning , it threatened to have a devastating effect on the marine environment of the northern Gulf , which was particularly vulnerable as a shallow , largely closed area of water with little natural turbulence or tidal flushing .
30 The Brook — it appears to have no official name — springs from the Wealden water-shed some three miles west between Swanage and Corfe Castle and flows into the sea by the Mowlem .
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