Example sentences of "have it that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business mythology has it that computer firms in Japan are no good at software and will never break the dominance of IBM , the world 's biggest computer company . |
| 2 | The consensus has it that economics will be the key stick with which the CEGB 's opponents , and perhaps even a few of its friends , will beat the board . |
| 3 | So the myth has it that Ms or Mr Trim very carefully calculates how much food ( or how many calories ) to forgo in order to afford an occasional large meal ( on holiday or at Christmas for example ) . |
| 4 | Conventional wisdom has it that management can not focus its attentions on more than seven critical success factors serviced by up to forty critical business processes . |
| 5 | City talk has it that Pittencrieff , which is rich enough to swallow both Brabant and Aberdeen , is about to bid about £11 million for Aberdeen , valuing it at 22p a share . |
| 6 | AN intriguing story has it that Traffic Minister Kenneth Carlisle 's American wife Carla , after attending the Sorbonne , spent three years in France lecturing on poultry . |
| 7 | Legend has it that Tax Exempt Special Savings Accounts ( Tessas ) originated in 1990 eve-of-Budget , back-of-an-envelope doodlings made up by John Major when he was Chancellor . |
| 8 | The conventional way of defining financial accounting ( the convention was established in 1966 by the American Accounting Association 's A Statement of Basic Accounting Theory ) has it that accounting is a purposive activity , i.e. it is directed towards a specified end . |
| 9 | Word has it that Unix System Labs has structured its pricing schedule so that its OEMs could bring Destiny out for $350 . |
| 10 | Common misconception has it that rock'n'roll was invented when Alan Freed first foisted this brash new music on the unsuspecting good burghers of Cleveland in April 1952 . |
| 11 | He would n't have had it that way . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've never had it that way ? ’ |
| 13 | You can have it that way up or |
| 14 | Yeah I 'll have it that way , I do n't like it the other way up . |
| 15 | Partly , Davie believes , because the British are now too ignorant of prosody to be able to hear Bunting 's precise , subtle music ; partly because , as an associate of Pound and Zukovsky , he is ‘ an embarrassment to the numerous English historians who would have it that modernism in poetry was a temporary , American-inspired distraction from a native tradition … ’ |
| 16 | Did he have it that time ? |
| 17 | She was part of a team and pleased to have it that way . |
| 18 | Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities . |
| 19 | Rumour had it that Peel 's often wayward left-field tastes were becoming too extreme for the radio bosses who were keen to push their bland and sterile daytime DJ personalities . |
| 20 | Marketing dogma of old had it that car buyers do n't want to hear about car safety , preferring not to dwell on the possibility of being killed or injured on the road . |
| 21 | Several hypotheses have it that land-use change , primarily growth of forest or development of heathlands following fires , logging and abandonment of agriculture , could have caused the recent acidification of low-alkalinity surface waters . |