Example sentences of "it [verb] have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Originally a Celtic settlement and later a Roman one , it has had a stormy history . |
| 3 | While this has not affected sales , it has had a negative impact on profits , Sage noted . |
| 4 | As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact . |
| 7 | It has had a changing intake and many staff believed that recently the ability range of pupils had fallen somewhat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It has had a chequered history , including use as a powder magazine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 12 | He says it has had a big impact . |
| 13 | Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family . |
| 14 | It has had a long-standing application with the American Department of Transportation to fly from New York to Stansted . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It has had a profound effect on personal morality — especially on criminality . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And his kiss when it came had a new depth and intensity born of the freedom they had both found during the past moments . |
| 21 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some of the popular writings it seems had a huge circulation : Samuel Solomon 's Guide to Health , or Advice to Both Sexes ran to 66 editions between 1782 and 1817 , and editions were still appearing in the later nineteenth century . |
| 24 | WD-40 , however , is not : it seems to have a corrosive effect on some materials . |
| 25 | ‘ These days , it seems to have a definite swing towards the Lib Dems ! ’ |
| 26 | It helps to have a high IQ , though I suspect a talent for mimicry is more useful ; being able to adopt at will the tones and attitudes of the educated middle classes . |
| 27 | This book provided a fundamental basis for the conservation movement ( Mumford , 1931 ) , it proved to have a great influence upon the way in which land was visualized and used ( Lowenthal , 1965 ) , and its full title Man and Nature or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action clearly indicates the direction in which it was pointing . |
| 28 | It did have a central theme to it , but we 're taking more time over the next one . |
| 29 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 30 | But you think it had had a good kicking or something , would n't you ? |