Example sentences of "[vb -s] it that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family tradition — that fund of oral folklore which passes on half-garbled stories , legends and rumours to succeeding generations — has it that one Titford died as a pirate . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've been seen around London lately with both John D. Hansom and Roderick Luckey , and rumour has it that both men want to marry you . |
| 3 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 4 | Maori tradition has it that these words were spoken by chief Ngatoroirangi when he first arrived in New Zealand from Polynesia in the great Arawa canoe : I arrive where unknown earth is under my feet ; I arrive where a new sky is above me . |
| 5 | Conventional wisdom has it that any significant expenditure on your home is best undertaken several years prior to retirement . |
| 6 | Folklore has it that any economic revival starts in the housing market as homeowners and would-be homeowners decide they can put off moving or buying no longer . |
| 7 | Rumour has it that most of them are unhedged at these levels : they did not expect the currency to rise this far . |
| 8 | A more basic defect when used for R&D projects it that both methods assume a finite and predictable outcome from every job . |
| 9 | A more basic defect when used for R&D projects it that both methods assume a finite and predictable outcome from every job . |
| 10 | That 's a conditional gift divorce makes it that that gift is revoked but she may still survive therefore the condition would apply and therefore the subsequent er provisions that you 've made in a will do n't apply because they can only apply if the wife survives twenty eight days but that 's ignored ! |