Example sentences of "it [vb -s] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally a Celtic settlement and later a Roman one , it has had a stormy history . |
| 2 | While this has not affected sales , it has had a negative impact on profits , Sage noted . |
| 3 | The controversy surrounding the overall record of the Thatcher administration suggests that it has had a major impact . |
| 4 | As the Party has grown it has been able to achieve representation in local government to the point of having controlling power on some councils , it has had a major voice in the first Assembly , the Convention , and the second Assembly , and it has elected representatives at Westminster and the European Parliament . |
| 5 | As part of the deal with Prue Leith , it has had a major facelift . |
| 6 | It has had a changing intake and many staff believed that recently the ability range of pupils had fallen somewhat . |
| 7 | Because of its widespread use in technical and scientific English in particular , it has had a strong influence on similar registers in other languages through translation . |
| 8 | It has had a chequered history , including use as a powder magazine . |
| 9 | I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me . |
| 10 | It has had a long and complicated history ; but , at the present day , the form required by law for the creation and transfer of estates and interests in land is both uniform and simple . |
| 11 | France has had no super-communications ministry ; but it has had a long tradition of state control , planning and Jacobin centralism . |
| 12 | Although black film making in America dates back to the days of the silents , it has had a dismal and frustrating history . |
| 13 | He says it has had a big impact . |
| 14 | Ever since Queen Victoria bought the estate in 1848 it has had a special place in the affections of the royal family . |
| 15 | It has had a long-standing application with the American Department of Transportation to fly from New York to Stansted . |
| 16 | While advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself — give or take a few microchips and memories — it 's easy to see that IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it . |
| 17 | Advances in information technology have so far done little to change the telephone itself , but IT has had a dramatic affect on the underlying telecoms infrastructure , and the way we use it |
| 18 | It has had a symmetric multi-processing version of Unix SVR4 available for its Sparc-based DRS6000 systems on the market for some eighteen months now . |
| 19 | It has had a profound effect on personal morality — especially on criminality . ’ |
| 20 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 21 | Some of the popular writings it seems had a huge circulation : Samuel Solomon 's Guide to Health , or Advice to Both Sexes ran to 66 editions between 1782 and 1817 , and editions were still appearing in the later nineteenth century . |
| 22 | WD-40 , however , is not : it seems to have a corrosive effect on some materials . |
| 23 | ‘ These days , it seems to have a definite swing towards the Lib Dems ! ’ |
| 24 | It helps to have a high IQ , though I suspect a talent for mimicry is more useful ; being able to adopt at will the tones and attitudes of the educated middle classes . |
| 25 | The prevailing theory that these climate shifts were triggered by the switching on of ‘ thermohaline ’ density-driven vertical circulation is very appealing ; however , it advocates have a difficult , but not impossible , task in explaining mode changes that last only three years . |
| 26 | The National Sound Archive does n't claim to be the natural home for gramophones or other equipment , but it does have a small historical collection , because to understand the recordings , some knowledge of how they were meant to be played is desirable . |
| 27 | It 's still disturbing but it does have a certain grandeur . |
| 28 | It does have a good feel . |
| 29 | Erm the fact it 's now burning Australian coal does tend to undermine the arguments er but nevertheless it does have a good rail connection down to the coast , the p ports on the south coast where it can , can er take the stuff in from the er from the ports . |
| 30 | Although I have to admit to buying Sat , Sun , Mon cause it does have a good sports section — especially the cricket . |