Example sentences of "it [verb] to 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | WD-40 , however , is not : it seems to have a corrosive effect on some materials . |
| 11 | ‘ These days , it seems to have a definite swing towards the Lib Dems ! ’ |
| 12 | It seems to have no geographical place in the real world but is merely the product of the poet 's imagination . |
| 13 | Yes , there were no quotes in it , there were no people mentioned , it seems to have no local flavour in that respect . |
| 14 | I like a broken line to look a picture , one in which there are ‘ lost and found ’ edges and in which the tone of one part is the same as the area behind it so it seems to have no hard edge . |
| 15 | Ethnic conflict is not explained by competition for limited resources ; it seems to have an ideological basis . |
| 16 | Outside it , it seems to have the opposite effect . |
| 17 | we always use at least three for a piano because although two men can lift them very often if you 're going round awkward corners it helps to have a third person s to steady them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This is most easily dealt with by ensuring that when Newco is formed it elects to have the same accounting year-end date as Target . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It appeared to have an irresistible momentum for growth demanded by its one million employees and supported by public opinion . |
| 22 | Motorola Inc says it expects to have the first version of its hand-held personal communicator on the market by the end of this year : the device , internally code-named the Personal Messenger , will be Motorola 's first product from its alliance with General Magic Corp : the hand-held device will initially handle data only , but will be able to transmit and receive messages and electronic mail from all current electronic mail systems ; the target price is a hefty $2,000 . |
| 23 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 24 | All the , the unlimitable supply of God 's grace could not save you or me by itself it had to have the other side , it had to have faith , I have to receive it . |