Example sentences of "[noun sg] has it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The decision to relinquish the lease may have been forced upon them : story has it that their landlord , Colonel Lindsay , had been angered by tales of a young man spitting out of a window into a frying pan held by Minton in the garden below . |
| 3 | Story has it that when Minton hung this portrait at Allen Street it so offended an art critic that he spat at it . |
| 4 | Loyalty to the old King did nothing to establish Drummonds with his heir — and indeed the story has it that curbing the Prince 's spending on the orders of the King led to Drummonds being abandoned by the new monarch in favour of Coutts . |
| 5 | The story has it that young de Malleray , a second-lieutenant in the same regiment , having heard the first news but not the sequel , was himself on the way up to the line that evening , and encountered his father 's Colonel . |
| 6 | What progress has it made towards this ? |
| 7 | Thoughts are — as the slogan has it — ‘ internalized actions ’ . |
| 8 | To some feminists , such as Andrea Dworkin , pornography is a major cause of women 's oppression ; it is violence against women or , as the old slogan has it , ‘ porn is the theory , rape is the practice . ’ |
| 9 | This is most apparent when the label ‘ professional ’ is used , stripped of any connotation of high moral purpose or high social standing , for the killing trades — hangman , professional hit-man or soldier ( ‘ Join the Professionals ’ , as the Army recruiting slogan has it ) . |
| 10 | High peaks , stunning lakes and wild forests — New Zealand 's Nelson Lakes National Park has it all , as Judy Armstrong discovers |
| 11 | Fiction has it that Mrs Marcos was a grand art collector , acquiring beautiful paintings as a testament to her taste . |
| 12 | The Führer has it easy . |
| 13 | Thus , a woman with two small children in the air-raid shelter is said to have commented : ‘ The Führer has it easy . |
| 14 | As one writer has it , |
| 15 | My Mum has it — I do n't think she 's ever bought a cassette before . |
| 16 | ? The skirt Sue is wearing belongs to Mary ; my sister has it , too . |
| 17 | One popular hypothesis has it that variations in rates of sea-floor spreading are the controlling factor ( Hays & Pitman , 1973 ) . |
| 18 | I mean , how much experience has it got , do you think ? ’ |
| 19 | Unless I suppose if you come from up there you , I would presumably you would know that 's an Edinburgh accent and Glas Glasgow has got a different accent has it ? |
| 20 | And Ma'am that shows you I think er the chairman has it open in front of you . |
| 21 | Do you think it 's at all possible that anybody who has this number , like presumably your agent has it or friends have it , is it at all possible anyone would have given it out to somebody ? |
| 22 | Gossip has it that Madonna has also captured Beatty 's heart . |
| 23 | Gossip has it that NT has slipped from summer to winter 1992 and now again to sometime in the first half of 1993 . |
| 24 | Stateside gossip has it that Hitachi Ltd will announce a ‘ Unix mainframe ’ within the next 30 days : possibilities are either OSF/1 on its existing M-series mainframes , or the first fruits of its efforts with Hewlett-Packard Co 's Precision Architecture RISC , which is said to be a RISC-based Unix co-processor for the IBM-compatible mainframes . |
| 25 | Gossip has it that his wife had recently left him and he wanted to make a clean break . |
| 26 | ‘ Gossip has it that he 's a good accountant , keen on music , and henpecked . |
| 27 | Why … well pit talk has it that the reigning world champion Ayrton Senna might just be signing for the team next season … if he comes will Nigel go … what 's his future … this is what he told Central South … |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | What effect has it had on your guitar playing ? |
| 30 | First , in occupying the terrain of prejudice , there continues — as in so many forms of antiracism — to be a fairly simplistic notion of how racism is culturally reproduced , or transmitted as the preferred term has it . |