Example sentences of "it [verb] to have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main opposition group , the National League for Democracy , said it expected to have an absolute majority when the final results are compiled in about three weeks . |
| 2 | All right , many of the audience would find it puzzling to have a middle-aged woman playing the juvenile role , but some of the audience would recognize just what they were hearing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste . |
| 5 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 6 | It tends to have an active or passive belief , whether articulated or not , that it is either superior to , or rightfully distinct from , other similar groups . |
| 7 | Heading south and with part of it reportedly burning , it threatened to have a devastating effect on the marine environment of the northern Gulf , which was particularly vulnerable as a shallow , largely closed area of water with little natural turbulence or tidal flushing . |
| 8 | There was a frequently reiterated belief that for Tanganyika to be understood properly in the international community it needed to have a strong English language press in which TANU policies would be stated clearly . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | WD-40 , however , is not : it seems to have a corrosive effect on some materials . |
| 11 | ‘ These days , it seems to have a definite swing towards the Lib Dems ! ’ |
| 12 | Ethnic conflict is not explained by competition for limited resources ; it seems to have an ideological basis . |
| 13 | we always use at least three for a piano because although two men can lift them very often if you 're going round awkward corners it helps to have a third person s to steady them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This book provided a fundamental basis for the conservation movement ( Mumford , 1931 ) , it proved to have a great influence upon the way in which land was visualized and used ( Lowenthal , 1965 ) , and its full title Man and Nature or Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action clearly indicates the direction in which it was pointing . |
| 16 | It appeared to have an irresistible momentum for growth demanded by its one million employees and supported by public opinion . |
| 17 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |