Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] have [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A user may have a deep knowledge of business problems , but knowing little about computers , has no idea how they should be tackled .
2 Maternal nutrition may have an important influence on programming .
3 A divided assessment may have the added advantage of allowing the valuer to claim that certain areas have now become common to two occupations and should be omitted from the valuation .
4 But they can just look through so they can say I ca n't think of an accent let's have a quick look through this list .
5 For instance , an ill-judged price reduction may have an opposite effect to that desired .
6 I did , however , manage to express my views as a practitioner , as one who actually nurses in the system of which she is so poorly informed , and I suggest that if more of us did the same , then perhaps our collective expertise may have a greater influence .
7 Possibly photography may have a new life as trompe l'oeil .
8 The Hector 's story may have a happy ending , as the establishment of entanglement .
9 There are of course some deliberately emphasized exceptions : destitution , like that depicted in Alton Locke and Mary Barton , precludes decency ; moral turpitude may have the same effect , as in the case of Mrs Brown in Dombey and Son — ‘ In an ugly and dark room , an old woman , ugly and dark too ’ .
10 Finally , if agencies are able to ‘ control the agenda ’ by offering only one expenditure programme as an alternative to the ‘ reversion level ’ if the plan is not accepted , then variations in the reversion level may have a perverse effect on spending .
11 Nevertheless , an inacurrate plan that prevails over the verbal description may have the same effect as a verbal misdescription .
12 A lectern should have a minimum depth of 38cm and a minimum width of 5Ocm — space to hold two A4 sheets alongside each other — and a ‘ lip ’ of at least 1.5cm to stop papers sliding off onto the floor .
13 The drafter must have a clear idea of what the terms are intended to achieve ; broadly , he/she must have ( 1 ) a sound grasp of the relevant law applying to contracts of supply and ( 2 ) a clear understanding of the nature of the client 's business and the client 's particular needs .
14 In order to achieve these objectives the drafter must have a clear understanding of the following matters .
15 To be effective , the programmer must have a clear objective , and be able to predict areas of difficulty and provide subroutines to deal with them .
16 Of course , in order to be able to establish an option contract on an underlying futures contract , the futures contract must have a prior existence .
17 To be successful , a futures contract must have a liquid market with low transactions costs associated with trading in the contract .
18 All candidates for admission to a taught postgraduate course should have a first degree in an appropriate subject , or a qualification or experience which is acceptable as equivalent .
19 The Committee fails entirely to discuss , however , whether mistakes of a similar kind should have a similar effect .
20 Whether classed as amateur or professional , full-time sportspeople must have a good head for business and develop basic marketing and PR skills .
21 Every boiler should have an efficient thermostat to govern its output .
22 The drafter should have a clear idea of the matters on which instructions are required .
23 As Nourse LJ held : The description must have a sufficient influence in the sale to become an essential term of the contract and the correlative of influence is reliance .
24 An industry inside the bloc may have a comparative advantage and benefits may be reaped from internal economies of scale , learning effects , and inducements to alter production processes .
25 Hence , just the introduction of backflush accounting may have a significant effect in reinforcing the JIT ( low stockholding ) philosophy .
26 We also agree that hysteroscopic biopsy may have a useful role to play in the investigation of these patients .
27 Robespierre 's experiment was , scarcely surprisingly , a dismal failure ; and while the delicious dream of a universal , natural and reasonable religion may have an understandable attraction for those who are influenced by but not wholly committed to Christian ( or some other ) belief , it does not appear capable of offering any very stable resting-place , or any adequate defence against the more radical challenges to religion as such which have been raised from without and within Christian theology in modern times .
28 Such thinking may have a particular appeal to Catholic Christians , who tend to think in terms of an evolving revelation .
29 We fear , too , that the proposed change in the Tax System with regard to the Mining Industry may have a detrimental effect on the Industrial Development Programme , by discouraging foreign interests from establishing planned new industries here unless they are assured of a continuation of the tax incentives and grant aid already in operation .
30 The significance of this was discussed in Chapter 1 , and it might be added here that there is some evidence to suggest that concentration may have an adverse effect on the level of invention and innovation in the economy .
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