Example sentences of "[noun] have it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 4 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 5 | The eyes have it Many women write to us complaining that they have puffy eyes . |
| 6 | Several hypotheses have it that land-use change , primarily growth of forest or development of heathlands following fires , logging and abandonment of agriculture , could have caused the recent acidification of low-alkalinity surface waters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Word has it that Unix System Labs has structured its pricing schedule so that its OEMs could bring Destiny out for $350 . |
| 12 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
| 13 | She had no idea what she wanted , but it was n't a licence to have it both ways . |
| 14 | Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities . |
| 15 | Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities . |
| 16 | But rumour had it these simulations all delivered Armageddon in the form of a total system collapse by 1996 or earlier . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |