Example sentences of "[vb -s] it [det] [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 | They laugh Quechua at me while one removes the volume control and drops it some distance away . |
| 12 | ‘ And he wants it that way . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Oh yeah she wants it this month do n't she ? |
| 15 | She obviously uses it each week , so it 's all rotted all coming away at the back of the pan . |
| 16 | ‘ I doubt if the whiting sees it that way , ’ grunted Rose . |
| 17 | He checks it each morning to see whether it is going to rain . |
| 18 | Gover prefers it that way : he could not imagine anyone else running the place . |
| 19 | It is impossible to be indifferent towards her , and she prefers it that way in her criticism , as she preferred it in life . |
| 20 | He prefers it that way . |
| 21 | He served his time at sea , is quite capable of looking after himself , and apparently prefers it that way . |
| 22 | Use of the section is purely optional and even if the company adopts it each member must be sent copies of the full accounts and reports if he wants to receive them . |
| 23 | He looks like a man who should be heavier than he is , and one soon realises that an iron discipline keeps it that way . |
| 24 | He keeps it that way with a fitness and beauty routine that includes two hours weight training , followed by half an hour on the sunbed to keep his skin golden brown . |
| 25 | Well , it might be that we regard it as whether everybody else interprets it that way . |
| 26 | Second successive corner then for Forest and again it 's aimed at Rozario who wins it this time that 's dangerous . |
| 27 | ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history . |
| 28 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
| 29 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 30 | All this gives it some importance in bringing the workforce to acceptance of the new work disciplines of the industrial revolution . |