Example sentences of "[noun] may have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the recession may have hit other parts of the United Kingdom more severely , the search for a job in Northern Ireland today can still be a soul-destroying task , with vacancies often attracting hundreds of applications . |
| 2 | Therefore the DOE may have to build new reactors at a cost of 8 billion dollars , and it will be ten years before these are ready . |
| 3 | Such products may have to contain specific properties ( attributes ) that match exactly the demand pattern of a specific group of customers . |
| 4 | ‘ the view of the courts may have undergone some change in regard to the relative rights of preference and ordinary shareholders … and to the disadvantage of the preference shareholders whose position has … become somewhat more approximated to [ that ] of debentureholders . ’ |
| 5 | Although not designed as ‘ brain storming ’ sessions , progress review meetings may have to serve this function if a job is behind programme and rescheduling is required to get back on target . |
| 6 | Diaper may have taken another cure in Crick , Northamptonshire , and by March 1713–14 was serving in Dean , near Basingstoke . |
| 7 | Tinbergen argued that rapid cultural change may have pushed human systems into an environment which is no longer that to which the species has adapted through evolution . |
| 8 | The polls before the 1970 election may have registered broad support for Labour but as the election result itself showed this support was conditional and unreliable . |
| 9 | Readings were taken only at one minute intervals , and therefore saturation values may have fallen lower inbetween , although the automatic alarm set at 85% was never activated . |
| 10 | On the other hand , policymaking is relatively less complex at the local level , and in many authorities a committee chairman may have acquired considerable specialist knowledge by holding the chairmanship — or serving on the committee concerned-for many years . |
| 11 | Other groups may have bettered these results ; they are gleaned from Special Action Feedbacks which had been received by AIBS at the time we went to press . |
| 12 | Some estates may have received new owners with little change , or they could have been divided and redistributed ; others may have been enlarged with the addition of adjacent lands or groups of estates under a single owner . |
| 13 | Pollsters say they have detected signs of a swing back to the Conservatives — and that Labour support may have peaked last week — but it may not come in time to save the Tories . |
| 14 | More expensive garages may have tiled pitched roofs , with gables either at the front and back of the building or on the side walls , allowing you to match the roof style and the finish to that of your house if you wish . |
| 15 | Thus , the lexical access component may have to match each word against every possible alignment of the input with the lexicon . |
| 16 | While the words may have played little part in Nationalist propaganda , and the ideas they connoted have been uncongenial to many Catholics and erstwhile liberal monarchists within the Nationalist camp , nevertheless the prominence of the Falange and the involvement of Italy and Germany sufficed to satisfy most foreign observers , and by no means only those on the left , that the Spanish rebels were indeed ‘ fascists ’ . |
| 17 | Process redesign may have generated more hype than light , but at its core is the imaginative use of today 's computing power in ways that can be peculiarly useful to banks . |
| 18 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 19 | The staff heads may have to develop new relationships among themselves and with the business leaders ; new rewards must be negotiated ; and many questions must be answered . |
| 20 | The high level of the stock market in the last six months may have made certain bids , for underperforming companies , uneconomic . |
| 21 | Those in the States may have to travel long distances for tournaments but it 's still in their own country . ’ |
| 22 | Those in the States may have to travel long distances for tournaments but it 's still in their own country . ’ |
| 23 | Other businesses may obtain their terms from a trade association or similar organisation , in which case the association may have taken legal advice in the preparation of the terms . |
| 24 | However , underwriting in Holland , where NCM enjoy 95 per cent of the market , may be different from the UK , and therefore NCM may have had little experience in working in a competitive market . |
| 25 | If the client takes more of the risks , the contractor 's tender prices may be lower , but the clients may have to pay extra sums as the contract proceeds and the risk becomes quantifiable in the light of claims and variations because of events such as unforeseen ground conditions . |
| 26 | French raids on the English south coast may have inflicted some damage , but in general the wealthier parts of the country were free of fighting . |
| 27 | The concept of geographical provinces may have gained some currency because it could be understood as a biological equivalent of the nations of humanity — and the early nineteenth century was a period of strong nationalist feelings . |
| 28 | Secondly , a greater percentage of the population in the rural areas was screened and if the prevalence of diabetes was similar in each area the screening programme may have missed more patients with advanced retinopathy in urban areas . |
| 29 | Ceauşescu may have learnt this technique from Kim II Sung who has pock-marked North Korea with memorials to his every stage of development . |
| 30 | ‘ It is possible the killer may have had local knowledge , ’ said Det Supt Cole . |