Example sentences of "it have a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has a similar shape to its smaller cousin , the Scissortail , but is otherwise quite different . |
| 2 | In this sense it has a similar role to that of the Office of Fair Trading in relation to UK competition rules such as the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 , the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , although in a number of respects and in particular in so far as the Commission has the power to take binding decisions , its powers are more extensive than the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 3 | Northern Telecom Ltd — itself a large Microsoft user — says it has a prior claim to the initials and has told Microsoft it ca n't use the term . |
| 4 | Northern Telecom — itself a large Microsoft user — says it has a prior claim to the initials and has told Microsoft it cant use the moniker . |
| 5 | Fundamentally it is entirely conservative , and it has a deep aversion to all innovations and advances and an unbounded respect for tradition . |
| 6 | Top management must devote time to communications and also show that it has a real commitment to improving communications |
| 7 | As the setting for a love-scene it has a great deal to be desired , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 8 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 9 | Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all . |
| 10 | He may think also that it has a basic appeal to human nature , which means most others will accept it too once their minds are cleared of confusion and superstition . |
| 11 | While the new book can be viewed as a hypertext because it has a semantic net to which paragraphs are attached , print on paper remains the dominant medium for the delivery of books , and Hypertext has also been generated in paper , linear form . |
| 12 | It has a paternalistic approach to local authority tenants . |
| 13 | The assessors chose 116a for their schedules which , although it had a flat elevation to Parliament Street , had the large internal quadrangle which was ultimately incorporated into the executed building . |
| 14 | It had a brittle edge to it . |
| 15 | That is , it had a similar status to the Banbury lane in medieval times but it is one which it has kept and developed in response to changing circumstances , whereas the Banbury Lane has failed . |
| 16 | It had a blue tinge to it . |
| 17 | It had a Victorian charm to us , an Emily Post nicety . |
| 18 | It had a vague familiarity to it , and she wondered if she might have been in here before . |
| 19 | — ‘ Non , ’ Alyssia said , mastering the French word and deciding that it had a certain ring to it when used in conversation with this particular woman . |
| 20 | Lying in her palm , strained , weeping with desire , it had a definite bias to one side , a kink almost . |
| 21 | Unfortunately you chose the ginger beetle , the toffee beetle or something of the sort it had a gingery look to it . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , ’ was all that Maidstone said to this but it had a knowing sound to it . |
| 23 | It had a brief rise to fame when , in 1895 , it started producing ‘ Ramie ’ fibre but , with the launch in 1905 of Courtaulds artificial fibre , the mill could no longer compete . |