Example sentences of "it [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | She watched it with mild curiosity ; it seemed to have a life of its own . |
| 4 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 5 | It seemed to have a life of its own as the needle ate up the cloth . |
| 6 | It seemed to have no power to affect the father . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Not knowing what it meant to have a past , he did n't miss it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |
| 18 | It appeared to have an irresistible momentum for growth demanded by its one million employees and supported by public opinion . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | It had to have a break in it somewhere , but it too should n't be obvious from the outside . |
| 21 | So it had to have a structure . |
| 22 | I said women should have a choice : the hospital said it had to have a policy . ’ |
| 23 | All the , the unlimitable supply of God 's grace could not save you or me by itself it had to have the other side , it had to have faith , I have to receive it . |