Example sentences of "it [verb] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And it needs to have a path to get there and back .
2 Since 1988 it has had a working arrangement with the Tokyo Stock Exchange ( TSE ) which allows the TSE 's Topix stock index and Japanese Government Bond futures contracts to be traded on the CBoT .
3 For the time being UNESCO is unable to send a cultural mission to Iraq to investigate the situation , although it has had a team of experts lined up since July of last year .
4 Santa Cruz has to date kept a very low profile in Japan , although it has had a product available on NEC 9800 series personal computers for some years .
5 But it has to have a record button ?
6 The company says that it wants to have a hand in computing , video , telephony , wireless and information technologies as these activities converge .
7 ‘ How does it feel to have a dyke fancy you rotten ? ’ she managed .
8 She watched it with mild curiosity ; it seemed to have a life of its own .
9 It seemed to have a life of its own as the needle ate up the cloth .
10 Bourdieu has written on traditional societies and modern society , but does not at all on the face of it seem to have a theory of modernization .
11 and really always has been , erm , the idea of a centre is , is simply because you consider how much it costs to have a point wired when the house is , is built , er several people nowadays is ha well they buy an old house , they erm , say well we 'll take out the centre light and put us in some wall lights instead you see .
12 This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) .
13 Following on this discussion , the shop decided that it needed to have a policy on career development and it was suggested that ACTS and Staff Council should produce a joint paper. ; A group is to be formed to look at the paper with Sarah Hughes , Bridget Middleton and Peter West in consultation with colleagues ; they will consult with Staff Council concerning a joint paper .
14 It walks on only five of its legs and holds the sixth out stiffly behind it so that it appears to have a sting projecting from the tip of its abdomen .
15 Are there any rules for writing poetry in the sense that does it have to rhyme , does it have to have a rhythm , does it have to have a particular for to be recognised and accepted as a piece of poetry as opposed , perhaps , to a piece of prose ?
16 It is a truism that a good story requires telling ; it seems to have a life and momentum of its own , which demand expression .
17 ‘ Yet it seems to have a song of its own , ’ she said whimsically .
18 It seems to have a will of its own … ’
19 It seems to have a bit of a different taste .
20 Although this is bought through a massive number of connections it seems to have a number of advantages over previously mentioned strategies :
21 It seems to have a mind of its own , and I call it The Great One .
22 Maybe this aircraft intrigues a child because , like a cartoon , it seems to have a face .
23 It seems to have a lot to do with how rapidly our twentieth-century world has changed , particularly in the West .
24 Not knowing what it meant to have a past , he did n't miss it .
25 But Elton probably would n't mind exchanging his sparkling shorts to suffer Adams ' lumberjack shirts if it meant having a song at number one for 16 weeks like the Canadian rocker did
26 Sometimes , when I have to make precious substances such as toenail cheese or belly-button fluff , I have to go without a shower or bath for days and days ; I hate doing this because I soon feel dirty and itchy , and the only bright thing about such abstinence is how good it feels to have a shower at the end of it .
27 If as Marx said , the working class have no country , what does it mean to have a place in a culture anyway ?
28 Before we even begin to consider how such questions could be productively posed , let alone answered , it is perhaps worth asking what it means to have a model of something at all .
29 Alan has little experience of family life and is inquisitive about what it means to have a mummy and daddy .
30 It means having a respect for the past , concern for the present , and an eye to the future .
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