Example sentences of "it [vb past] have a " 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 | And his kiss when it came had a new depth and intensity born of the freedom they had both found during the past moments . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She watched it with mild curiosity ; it seemed to have a life of its own . |
| 5 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 6 | It seemed to have a life of its own as the needle ate up the cloth . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Not knowing what it meant to have a past , he did n't miss it . |
| 13 | But Elton probably would n't mind exchanging his sparkling shorts to suffer Adams ' lumberjack shirts if it meant having a song at number one for 16 weeks like the Canadian rocker did |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The hemi-epiphytic Ficus microcarpa of Malesia has a caruncle around the fruit inside the syconium ; when it is removed , the fruit is less likely to be ant-transported and those with it removed had a higher germination rate . |
| 16 | It did have a most beautiful sleeve , a yellow tint vision of a young Pat Phoenix , a product of Morrissey 's youthful Coronation Street obsession . |
| 17 | It did have a central theme to it , but we 're taking more time over the next one . |
| 18 | Its bed and furniture were entirely homely , however , and perhaps not as dainty as the elegant young French lady might like , but it did have a nice view of the hustle and bustle of Newington Butts , and Mrs Beavis always reckoned that if you could see life going on from your window , you could n't grumble too much about not having dainty furniture . |
| 19 | Granted this helped the swelling of the coffers of the tobacco company that was the sponsor , but it did have a tremendous evangelical effect for the game , proselytising many . |
| 20 | The court recognised that it did have a discretion under the Rules of the Supreme Court to allow service to stand despite the failure to comply with the relevant Rules , but declined to do so on the facts ; it would take ‘ a very strong case ’ , for example express representation by the defendant that the method of service adopted was lawful , before the discretion would be exercised . |
| 21 | I think it did have a lot to do with the status that being different conferred , for in spite of the austerity of our childhood , we believed that we were better than other people , the food we ate being a mark of this , because our mother told us so — so successfully that even now I have to work hard at actually seeing the deprivations . |
| 22 | It was n't much of a smile , but it did have a faintly superior tinge to it and Lydia began to feel better . |
| 23 | They wrapped it up and gave it to her , and it did have a head like a baby . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it did have a sign saying ‘ bar-food ’ , and Loretta realized she was quite hungry . |
| 25 | But it did have a garage and it did have a telephone box . |
| 26 | But it did have a garage and it did have a telephone box . |
| 27 | Drink never loosened his tongue , though it did have an effect on his sizable nose which , like Bardolph 's , was a beacon in the dark . |
| 28 | The settlement connects with other forms of extension in that it did have an educational aim , but , like Oxford House ( another settlement or " mission " set up in the East End in 1884 ) , it usefully illustrates new initiatives for the renewal of forms of leadership and patterns for social administration upon which the elevation of English largely depended , Barnett saw Toynbee Hall as the potential centre for an east London university ; in fact it became , as did the other settlements and extension classes , a centre for members of the middle class . |
| 29 | But it did have an elegant shopping precinct , the first of its kind , and a city centre flanked by the grandeur of its old and new cathedrals . |
| 30 | It appeared to have a road running to within a few kilometres . |