Example sentences of "it have [adj] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It has all the ingredients for an appealing story , and an appealing picture . |
2 | Clairol 's Silver Shot ( £19.95 ) is a small , compact hairdryer that wo n't take up loads of room and it has all the advantages of its bigger , professional-style counterparts . |
3 | It has all the advantages of a cannon plus the ability to rumble forward through the middle of enemy formations crushing everything in its path . |
4 | It 's promoted by the natural-born hucksters within Apple because it has all the earmarks of something trendy and fashionable . |
5 | This second expedition to Benghazi is not mentioned in any official documents and it has all the hallmarks of a David Stirling private-enterprise job , especially in view of the personnel who were to be involved . |
6 | IT has all the hallmarks of history repeating itself , the charismatic young pretender ousting the tired old campaigner , so it is inevitable that comparisons between Bill Clinton and John F Kennedy are coming thick and fast . |
7 | It has all the hallmarks of a master plan . ’ |
8 | And if you get the private sector to finance some of the developments such as toll roads , then it has all the hallmarks of sound finance about it . |
9 | ’ It has all the makings of a first class row , ’ said Geoff with evident glee . |
10 | Opacity is a social creation , a device of resistance , achieved by the closing down of speech till it has all the appearances of a restricted code . |
11 | It has all the paraphernalia of a public inquiry and after all the necessary preparations are made it can go on for weeks . |
12 | It has all the goodness of liver but with virtually all the moisture , fibre and fat taken out . |
13 | Though still it has all the marks of makeshift industrialisation and decline , with municipalism picking up the pieces , building endless estates of council houses . |
14 | It has all the marks of a winning issue . |
15 | Despite official denials that a blackball system exists , it has all the characteristics of a club , or as one member boasted , ‘ the Mafia ’ . |
16 | It has all the characteristics of a proper Chianti — sweetness of fruit , fleshiness but lightness of texture and sheer slurpability . |
17 | It has all the joy of being in a United Nations peace-keeping force . |
18 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
19 | But otherwise it had all the ingredients of the detective novel , down to a theme , the passion for justice . |
20 | And if this was nothing more , at least it had all the trappings of a glamorous evening . |
21 | It had all the signs of being the backstage entrance to the building . |
22 | But it had all the signs of a sectarian killing . |
23 | The arena was almost full and it had all the makings of a full scale rumble . |
24 | Certainly , it had all the makings of a cinematic success : a superb international cast in the roles of cheating , lying slaves , beautiful handmaidens and courtesans , broad-shouldered , not-too-bright soldiers , henpecked husbands , domineering wives , long-lost children and vestal virgins , involved in love and death scenes , processions , chases and a slave market . |
25 | He had witnessed the girl 's suffering and had analysed the fluid brought up from the stomach — it had all the appearances of urine — colour , taste , smell and consistency . |
26 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
27 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
28 | It had all the hallmarks of the IRA … a high-explosive device planted on a metal service bridge at Dorton , over the Chiltern line between Banbury and London Marylebone . |
29 | It had all the qualities of a detailed Victorian painting of Scottish highlands . |
30 | It had all the characteristics of the Chapman style — swift , direct , efficient . |