Example sentences of "[prep] it have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 2 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |
| 3 | Mining coal can rarely compete on world markets and the use of it has such a damaging effect on our environment . ’ |
| 4 | I 'm a free man , and all that you hold dear , you rich men — and beggars too — none of it has any power over me . ’ |
| 5 | Behind Hurd 's selection of a specific group of Arab states is the assumption that the Arab world as a whole can be ignored , since only part of it has any role to play in security in future . |
| 6 | Does the association of low pitch with authority and high pitch with lack of it have any reasonable basis , or is it simply a sexist prejudice through which everything that marks a speaker out as female becomes a cause for complaint and a proof of inferiority ? |
| 7 | but whether we want at the end of it to have another water seminar , looking instead of extraction side but what the water companies are doing with our rivers it might not be a bad idea as part of er producing a considered view later on in the year but I do n't , I do n't think we can hurry this as there 's a lot of lessons to be learnt and I I do n't think we should do the work in the Fire and Public Protection Committee erm in getting our erm eyes taken off the dealing with the actual problem at the moment , we want to look , step , step back and say well what what was the cause of all that , but I do support erm proposal that we should have it listed as er |
| 8 | Second , three of the variables incorporated into it have negative signs , indicating that as the number of pixels of these types increases , so population decreases . |
| 9 | If they can establish that literacy in itself constructs superior logical functions , then it will follow that those without it have inferior logical functions . |
| 10 | By attempting to create rules for the exercise of power , the people subject to it have some hope of being able to control it and to make it legitimate in their own eyes . |
| 11 | The concept of ‘ objectivity ’ is not neutral in English culture nor in international affairs in the modern world ; the appeal to it has significant implications not only for status but , more crucially , for power and control of resources . |
| 12 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |
| 13 | It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding . |
| 14 | The educative process has to begin sufficiently early in a person 's life for it to have any real effect on attitudes , and I believe the challenge has to have the response of both parents and schools . |
| 15 | Moreover , whatever the course adopted , it would have to receive the blessing of Germany 's traditional enemy , France , for it to have any chance of success . |
| 16 | It also protects the plant in a more general way for it has such a bitter taste and is so poisonous that most animals will not eat the plant . |
| 17 | This term ‘ natural ’ is inherently confusing for it has two distinct meanings . |