Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business mythology has it that computer firms in Japan are no good at software and will never break the dominance of IBM , the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 2 | The consensus has it that economics will be the key stick with which the CEGB 's opponents , and perhaps even a few of its friends , will beat the board . |
| 3 | So the myth has it that Ms or Mr Trim very carefully calculates how much food ( or how many calories ) to forgo in order to afford an occasional large meal ( on holiday or at Christmas for example ) . |
| 4 | Conventional wisdom has it that management can not focus its attentions on more than seven critical success factors serviced by up to forty critical business processes . |
| 5 | City talk has it that Pittencrieff , which is rich enough to swallow both Brabant and Aberdeen , is about to bid about £11 million for Aberdeen , valuing it at 22p a share . |
| 6 | AN intriguing story has it that Traffic Minister Kenneth Carlisle 's American wife Carla , after attending the Sorbonne , spent three years in France lecturing on poultry . |
| 7 | Legend has it that Tax Exempt Special Savings Accounts ( Tessas ) originated in 1990 eve-of-Budget , back-of-an-envelope doodlings made up by John Major when he was Chancellor . |
| 8 | The conventional way of defining financial accounting ( the convention was established in 1966 by the American Accounting Association 's A Statement of Basic Accounting Theory ) has it that accounting is a purposive activity , i.e. it is directed towards a specified end . |
| 9 | Word has it that Unix System Labs has structured its pricing schedule so that its OEMs could bring Destiny out for $350 . |
| 10 | Common misconception has it that rock'n'roll was invented when Alan Freed first foisted this brash new music on the unsuspecting good burghers of Cleveland in April 1952 . |
| 11 | Peter Watts , currently the president of Tangent , will head up the new venture , which will use ISDN technology , allowing for electronic software distribution and simultaneous voice , data and image computer conferencing , all areas on which Unilinx has it long range sights . |
| 12 | Why has it funny number ? |
| 13 | ‘ Awright theaa mee ol chinah , ows it gowen den … |
| 14 | They laugh Quechua at me while one removes the volume control and drops it some distance away . |
| 15 | Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement . |
| 16 | ‘ And he wants it that way . |
| 17 | Matisse comes at the end of a tradition of Renaissance illusionism and volumetric painting which is irrevocably shifting into something different and he wants it both ways , just as Giotto wanted it both ways . |
| 18 | Oh yeah she wants it this month do n't she ? |
| 19 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 20 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 21 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 22 | uses it one way see they 're gon na make up a dictionary of how many different expr er interpretations of a word |
| 23 | He refers to the Kingdom fifty-two times , while Mark uses it nineteen times , Luke forty-four times and John only four . |
| 24 | Ephron picks up Abraham 's ‘ give ’ and uses it three times in his opening offer . |
| 25 | ‘ I doubt if the whiting sees it that way , ’ grunted Rose . |
| 26 | He checks it each morning to see whether it is going to rain . |
| 27 | Gover prefers it that way : he could not imagine anyone else running the place . |
| 28 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
| 29 | He prefers it that way . |
| 30 | He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way . |