Example sentences of "may have [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The learner who apparently works quickly and efficiently may have much to learn in bedside nursing . |
| 2 | While GRIST courses can help to raise awareness of particular issues , the benefits of providing a programme of in-house courses addressed to a particular school 's needs may have much more relevance for the staff . |
| 3 | Primary schools seem to manage with the term ‘ classroom teacher ’ and their cross-curricular approach may have much to offer the secondary curriculum . |
| 4 | Again , that this is the case is not contradicted by the fact that , in many spheres , I may have much more in common with first world men than with third world women . |
| 5 | Whilst gradation may have much in principle to commend it , certain criticisms may be voiced at the form which gradation has taken in the jurisdictions under consideration . |
| 6 | Symbolically , this arrangement may have much to commend it , but in practical terms its impact ought not to be over-estimated . |
| 7 | It is certainly the case that a student with , say , a moderately good pass in A-level French may have little capacity for the responsive reading of French poetry . |
| 8 | Developing countries , for example , consume many of the same goods as industrialised countries , but may have little or no expenditure on heating , public utilities , medicine , etc . |
| 9 | The garish shirt that caused a myotonic goat to faint at first sight may have little effect once the animal has grown used to its owner 's poor taste . |
| 10 | Governors have an increasing responsibility for schools they serve , very much like a board of directors of a public company but , unlike company directors , they may have little specialist knowledge or previous experience of management . |
| 11 | While you do this you may have little spare capacity for monitoring the feelings of people in the meeting and spotting members who are silently expressing messages such as dissent , apathy , boredom , anger , confusion and so on . |
| 12 | You may have little or no choice about transferring some of your authority because of time pressures placed on you by , for example , the actions of senior management . |
| 13 | As a result , you may have little practical alternative but to agree to increased working hours or to work in a different area , despite the fact that the contract does not provide for such things , if they are commercially necessary from the point of view of the business . |
| 14 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 15 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 16 | Small , discrete pieces of information may have little significance in isolation , but when collected together , they can be much greater than the sum of their parts . |
| 17 | Children for whom this activity may have little meaning can compare their own height with towers of blocks , tops of cupboards and so on . |
| 18 | Say the following sentences up to time and you may have little difficulty in including the missing words shown by the dots . |
| 19 | However , even if we are extremely successful in improving the quality of auditing , it may have little effect on the public 's perception of the profession . |
| 20 | Often they carry crude woodcuts ( which may have little or no relevance to the contents ) . |
| 21 | Such old people may have little embarrassment with each other about bodily functions , perhaps less than some husbands and wives because they were the stuff of taken-for-granted childhood . |
| 22 | The wife may be unable to get a job and may have little opportunity to work in the house especially if it is customary for servants to do all cooking and housework . |
| 23 | At high levels of idiosyncratic skill ( flair see p. 245 ) analysis is particularly difficult because the practitioner may have little conscious awareness of how or why he achieves unusual success . |
| 24 | ‘ Science ’ and ‘ technology ’ cover a very wide range of occupations , and in practice policy makers may have little idea of either the extent of skill shortages or how to redirect girls ' energies towards these . |
| 25 | But with banks and investors wary , the company may have little choice — unless , of course , Walt Disney once again comes to the rescue , as it did by deferring its management fee . |
| 26 | If firms exploit the escape clause , IG Metall may have little choice but to go along . |
| 27 | The contemporary meaning and significance of phenomena may have little to do with the shape and form which links them , however remotely , with the past . |
| 28 | AT&T 's eagerness to identify with an artist who ran away , scrawled graffiti on walls , and became a drug addict may have little to do with the quest for positive ‘ role models ’ now popular in the United States . |
| 29 | According to this thesis , the distribution of responsibilities left the GLC and MCCs with too little to do , but with access to large rating resources : ‘ This generates a natural search for a ‘ strategic ’ role which may have little basis in real needs ' ( DOE 1983b:3 ) . |
| 30 | People may have little chance to argue with their foreman at work , with the council housing department , with the teacher of their child , or with the police officer who forces obedience to the law . |