Example sentences of "have [indef pn] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The exemption , ’ it has been said , ‘ has nothing to support it . ’ |
| 2 | " My little boy has nothing to wear for the cold weather . " |
| 3 | STEVE SUSTAD 'S HIMALAYAN EXPLOITS ARE SUBSTANTIAL , YET THIS PUBLICITY-SHY CHARACTER CLAIMS HE HAS NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT . |
| 4 | The specialist architectural press ignores this amorphous school of design , while even the Prince of Wales has nothing to say on the subject , reserving his spleen for imaginative buildings that he and so many of his future subjects profess to hate . |
| 5 | Because each has nothing to say , the mirrored buildings simply reflect a bigger nothing . |
| 6 | ‘ The Commission has nothing to say on this subject ; it is something which will have first to be discussed by the member states of the Community in political co-operation , ’ a Commission spokesman said yesterday . |
| 7 | The cast is assembled , but more often than not it has nothing to say . |
| 8 | ‘ No , he has nothing to say . |
| 9 | Psychology has nothing to say about what women are really like , what they need and what they want , essentially because psychology does not know . |
| 10 | Despite its alarmingly boring title , it has nothing to say at all about the Ford Administration : it starts off in the wholly recognisable Updike Couples-land of middle-aged infidelity in New England academia , before broadening into reflections on the way sexual liberation became virtually mandatory in the hot years of the late 1970s ( the Ford years ) . |
| 11 | In other words , instrumental rationality has nothing to say about either the source or the rationality of the agents ' goals . |
| 12 | I see a grasp of graphic features not just as the basis for confirming or disconfirming guesses , but as a direct source of meaning-in-context , to be called on when expectancy has nothing to say . |
| 13 | When Xerxes invaded , Herodotus has nothing to say about resistance by Macedon , and this is one of the strongest arguments for thinking they medised . |
| 14 | A further and very different way in which Figure 9 is incomplete is that it deals only with the processing of words and has nothing to say about the processing of non-words . |
| 15 | This relates to the two aggregates which are the primary concern of accruals accounting and about which cash accounting has nothing to say , namely , capital and income . |
| 16 | We always laugh and joke and talk so much that Enid hushes us perpetually , and now he has nothing to say . |
| 17 | The Pareto criterion has nothing to say about such a change . |
| 18 | By talking about those three areas , the right hon. Gentleman clearly underlines the fact that the Labour party has nothing to say about economic and monetary union . |
| 19 | In the meantime she has nothing to say to any of you . ’ |
| 20 | 3.00am : The Tory group sits with folded arms and a collective smile saying it has nothing to say . |
| 21 | This autobiography has nothing to say of courtship , but that , as Dr Vincent has suggested , could well be because working-class autobiographers did not judge it a subject their readers wanted to know about , and many of them in any case lacked the command of an emotional language to describe their feelings . |
| 22 | Gregory has nothing to say about the Thuringians in Clovis 's reign . |
| 23 | Genoa has nothing to spend . |
| 24 | They could 've done more with the ‘ ol wizard too : unable to use most of the flashy weapons from the armoury , he accumulates huge amounts of dosh as he has nothing to spend it on . |
| 25 | Whether or not the projected 18 million visitors materialise , Seville has nothing to lose , and plenty to gain , by hosting the event , a key part of the ‘ Year of Spain ’ . |
| 26 | Dr Sommers feels that Regina has nothing to lose and a great deal to gain if she follows his advice re support for her floating kidney ’ ) . |
| 27 | After all , Bush has nothing to lose — he 's handing over the White House to Clinton . |
| 28 | Warren , who was involved in Benn 's first 21 professional fights , said : ‘ Nicky is the better boxer and has nothing to lose . |
| 29 | Not until after the middle of the seventeenth century do we once more find a government clerk making use of verse as an outlet after he has become psychotic , and then , as he writes from the asylum , he has nothing to lose by revealing himself . |
| 30 | With relegation fast becoming a foregone conclusion , Hankin has nothing to lose by giving teenagers an outing . |