Example sentences of "it [be] have any " in BNC.

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1 Applied linguistics in this sense must be practised by teachers too if it is to have any effective operational relevance at all .
2 If it is to have any practical value a recording system must be concerned with measuring observable behaviour .
3 The more complex professional action becomes , the less likely it is to have any effect .
4 If we can not win that support , we may as well go out of business , and it is our duty now at all events to make the best of the situation which has arisen and to see that everything is done to make our Party what Disraeli called it — and what , if it is to have any existence , It must be — a really national party .
5 ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society .
6 The bodily expression of inner distress needs a framework of bonds between people if it is to have any meaning .
7 Propaganda , if it is to have any effect at all , must have some basis in truth .
8 I paused , to see if it was having any effect .
9 Such case as the defence were able to make depended , like the defence in some of the cases cited above , almost entirely on the defendant 's credibility if it was to have any prospect of success and therefore the misdirection was material .
10 They were often in danger of forgetting that the good news they heard each Sunday had to be applied to everyday life if it was to have any validity .
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