Example sentences of "it [that] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular idiom has it that the four themes are very imperfectly combined in the family : ‘ children ruin a marriage ’ , ‘ sex and family life simply do n't go together ’ , and so forth . |
| 2 | Orientalising wisdom has it that the rural masses know nothing about politics and are satisfied with the new commodity economy generated by the privatisation of land . |
| 3 | Legend has it that the once-rounded peaks had their tops lopped off by a supernatural force to make a flat-topped bed and table for St Columba when he visited the island in AD585 . |
| 4 | I take it that the honourable gentlemen are in fact cheering the government , thank you very much . |
| 5 | I will not bore you with going through a lot of slides showing those comparisons , but in a short paper erm you must take my word for it that the two groups were comparable . |
| 6 | But how can natural selection see to it that the two pathways are not mixed , and that cooperating groups of compatible genes emerge ? |
| 7 | Why is it that the psychic gifts often cause apprehension and even fear ? |
| 8 | Michael Land of Sussex University , our foremost authority on invertebrate eyes , is worried , and so am I. Is it that the necessary mutations can not arise , given the way Nautilus embryos develop ? |