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

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1 The standard of NHS accommodation available to trained staff is variable , and even if you are happy to put up with this in the short term , in the longer term it may have adverse effects on your personal life or hopes of a future career .
2 " Stop talking " can be seen as plain common sense if everyone is talking at once , but if it comes from an over-talkative mother with a shy child it can have serious consequences on the child 's character .
3 Unless careful control is exercised over its introduction it can have unpleasant effects on things like corporate image , house styles and general productivity .
4 First , since the government has the job of running the country it must have some functions , powers and duties which private individuals do not have ; obvious examples are the waging of war and the issuing of passports .
5 Used as an utterance in context it may have many meanings , which , although they are connected to this context-free sentence meaning , may be extremely varied .
6 The local doctors believed that when undertaken by the child 's mother it could have positive effects but fundamentalists like the magistrate insisted that any such teaching was morally wrong .
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