Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] 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 | Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | that particular word one way I use it one way mum uses it one way and er |
| 6 | The addition of oboes to a high melodic cello passage gives it great poignancy , and at the same time counteracts the tendency towards thinness of tone which is apt to be somewhat distressing unless the cellos are both first-rate and numerous . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's as the sun hits it this side . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ACT FINANCIAL EXPLAINS HOW OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING GIVES IT UNRIVALLED MOMENTUM |
| 14 | I crept up to my first victim in the same way as I imagine a lion cub stalks it first wildebeest — clumsily . |
| 15 | Word has it that Unix System Labs has structured its pricing schedule so that its OEMs could bring Destiny out for $350 . |
| 16 | But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record . |
| 17 | Gover prefers it that way : he could not imagine anyone else running the place . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 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 | It will be void if that fact makes it impossible right from the outset to carry out the contract . |