Example sentences of "have it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But countries can not have it both ways : the cost of a cleaner environment may sometimes be fewer jobs in dirty industries , which will migrate to less environmentally sensitive lands . |
| 32 | Could it have it both ways ? |
| 33 | Sociologists can not have it both ways : either Freud has to be examined alongside the founders of sociology , or they all have to be dismissed as unscientific thinkers . |
| 34 | Critics of regulation from the standpoint of economic theory can not have it both ways . |
| 35 | ‘ Letting the man have it both ways at once . |
| 36 | Did n't the Anglicans try and have it both ways ? |
| 37 | The Minister can not have it both ways . |
| 38 | Well , you ca n't have it both ways . |
| 39 | He could n't have it both ways . |
| 40 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 41 | They claim that they have a mandate for doing that , too , but they can not have it both ways . |
| 42 | The Labour party can not have it both ways : it attacks the system either because it expects people to claim or because it requires a register . |
| 43 | The Secretary of State can not have it both ways . |
| 44 | He can not have it both ways . |
| 45 | The Opposition can not have it both ways . |
| 46 | I mean you ca n't have it both ways |
| 47 | Further , employers could not have it both ways ; if they sought summary conviction before justices of the peace , they could hardly have had penalties of a harshness imposable only by the courts . |
| 48 | Now you ca n't have it both ways , surely ? |
| 49 | previous track record in Europe , and Councillor , you ca n't have it both ways . |
| 50 | They ca n't have it both ways . |
| 51 | Well they ca n't have it both ways if they can afford to save money they can , but if they do n't , then stay in the centre |
| 52 | You ca n't have it both ways . |
| 53 | It is also a blatant bid to have it both ways . |
| 54 | What they can not do is to have it both ways . |
| 55 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 56 | We may take the ambiguity to imply that Wordsworth was unwilling to admit that the visionary gleam was entirely self-deception , and was trying to have it both ways . |
| 57 | Mannheim 's relationism seemed to his detractors like a hollow promise , an attempt to have it both ways . |
| 58 | She had no idea what she wanted , but it was n't a licence to have it both ways . |
| 59 | Fourth , pluralists try to have it both ways when interpreting the power significance of inactive interests and groups : they minimise the influence of the rich when they are inactive , but choose to exaggerate the influence of the poor unless they are inactive . |
| 60 | My right hon. Friends have not committed the Government to any position on tax , but I notice that , as usual , the right hon. Gentleman wants to have it both ways . |