Example sentences of "[vb mod] have only a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among political theorists it is widely accepted that , to sustain a democracy , participation and active citizenship should have only a minimal role . |
| 2 | He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago . |
| 3 | The first was that natural justice could have only a limited application in the context of the wider duties or discretion imposed upon a minister ; unfortunately the courts had applied those limited notions of natural justice to other areas where the constraints were unnecessary . |
| 4 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 5 | If corporations merely promoted or recruited new personnel to replace the faint-hearted or imprisoned , then frightening and removing executives to prison may have only a minimal impact on corporate crime . |
| 6 | This may have only a marginal effect on the owners of a semi , but in blocks of flats contributions have to be made to a maintenance fund . |
| 7 | When we recalculated the activity of Ca 2 + at the same pH ( pH 7.7 ) using the formula for changes in PCO 2 , however , the difference between the two groups was still apparent , indicating that the difference in pH may have only a minor influence on the observed difference in the Ca 2 + activity when the pH changes are caused by variations in pCO 2 ( recalculating the actual activity in gall bladder bile from patients with gall stone disease and controls to a pH 7.7 gives an activity of 0.407 and 0.315 mmol/kg , respectively ) ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 8 | From examining the shapes of these graphs it would appear that increasing the size of the corpus would have only a small effect on the percentage of bigram transitions found . |
| 9 | Although the Foreign Office may say that the mooted treaty on political union would have only a marginal impact on the EC , it would clearly diminish national sovereignty . |
| 10 | But it pointed out that the delays would have only a marginal impact on the total UK production profile and would help to sustain the mid-1990s production plateau beyond the turn of the century . |
| 11 | But the results are so late in arriving that they will have only a limited influence on national policies for coronary prevention . |
| 12 | Advice from the specialist agencies should be taken , because every census count will have only a partial alignment with the target audience being sought . |
| 13 | Owing to a circular symmetry the electric field will have only a radical component , independent of the azimuth angle . |
| 14 | If the vehicle for the institutional investors is a limited partnership , it is likely each underlying investor will have only a small share of Newco , which will be insufficient to make Newco its 51% subsidiary . |
| 15 | A confidential Department of Employment memo states , the scheme will have only a minimal training element . |
| 16 | Usually , a band or artist will have only a short working life in which to earn sufficient money to live on for the rest of their lives . |
| 17 | So the forces that they carry will have only a short range . |
| 18 | The cost of the bid to Tiphook is put at £2million , which it says will have only a minor impact on full year results . |
| 19 | By relying on circular symmetry we can further claim that the electric field will have only a radial component which means that |
| 20 | However , since new additions comprise under one per cent of the total stock each year , they will have only a trivial effect on the distribution of housing types in the near future ( it should be noted that conversions of dwellings are not included in the figures given above ) . |
| 21 | Each of us can have only a tiny impact on creating a kinder , finer world . |
| 22 | ‘ We — my brother and myself — because we are bankers , and very cautious , old-fashioned bankers — and also not young — we can have only a little answer . |
| 23 | For one thing , as it applies only to areas of new or rehabilitated housing , it can have only a marginal impact on overall levels of safety in all residential areas , at least for the foreseeable future . |