Example sentences of "it [verb] to have [art] " 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 it needs to have a path to get there and back . |
| 4 | It needs to have the necessary quality of confidence about it. ) 4 Whether the relevant information can be easily isolated from other information which the employee is free to use or disclose This to some extent relies on the intelligence and honesty of the employee . |
| 5 | But it has to have a record button ? |
| 6 | It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor . |
| 7 | The company says that it wants to have a hand in computing , video , telephony , wireless and information technologies as these activities converge . |
| 8 | ‘ How does it feel to have a dyke fancy you rotten ? ’ she managed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She watched it with mild curiosity ; it seemed to have a life of its own . |
| 12 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 13 | It seemed to have a life of its own as the needle ate up the cloth . |
| 14 | It seemed to have no power to affect the father . |
| 15 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 16 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It claimed to have the authority of the past and the patronage of the saints in bringing to the world the fruits of monastic discipline and devotion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ It was purely a contingency arrangement , ’ says a spokesman , explaining that it needed to have a ‘ suite ’ of offices speedily available for the new Secretary of State for Women — probably Jo Richardson — and her staff to move into . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Brook — it appears to have no official name — springs from the Wealden water-shed some three miles west between Swanage and Corfe Castle and flows into the sea by the Mowlem . |
| 27 | show that p53 may play an important role in cell death resulting from treatment with the topoisomerase 2 inhibitor , etoposide , but that it appears to have no involvement in the spontaneous ‘ ageing ’ apoptosis associated with prolonged culture of these thymocytes . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Instead , it has been suggested that the object tends towards presentational form , which can not be broken up as though into grammatical sub-units , and as such it appears to have a particularly close relation to emotions , feelings and basic orientations to the world . |
| 30 | 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 ? |