Example sentences of "it [modal v] have [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Meg Dods ( The Cook 's and Housewife 's Manual , I 826 ) instructs that if this is to be kept as a cold relish the white meat and the coral and spawn should be packed " in a regular manner , in layers , or alternate pieces , so that when sliced it may have that marbled appearance , that look of mosaic work which so commends the taste of the cook " .
2 This will take place in five stages : — orientation interviews , to select the texts and to establish the communicative context ; — initial analysis of texts which will focus on linguistic features likely to indicate relations between disciplines ; — directed interviews with the participants which will allow them to comment on the details of the analysis ; — comparison of texts from different locations and situations to show if a pattern of features is merely peculiar to one writer or if it may have general social significance .
3 IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced .
4 He suggests that shifts in the social and political climate in the United States may have had something to do with this change : the very dates of the steep rise of interest in functionalism among sociological theorists also suggests that it may have some ideological import .
5 There are many reasons for co-operation , but the main concern should be that whatever is to be done by clearinghouses , it should have one prime effect — that the quality of user education should be significantly improved .
6 It is up to each member state to decide whether an EEIG registered by it should have separate legal personality .
7 So if the board is to ensure that it is project managing the change effectively , it must have non-financial internal information too .
8 For it to do this , it must have some long-term effect .
9 Therefore there should be little surprise that Freud first links this compulsion to repeat pain on to the non-sexual instincts , for it must have some instinctual base , and this can not be the life-affirming sexual instincts , for they do seem to operate on the pleasure principle par excellence .
10 It must have some declared function .
11 Despite the superficial stupidity of the action , it must have some special advantage in at least enough cases for it to have been the subject of natural selection .
12 In a muddled way , he expected that she might fall into his arms , that he would be able to comfort her and that one thing would lead to another ; and so absorbed had he become in the effect Sam 's death would have on his own affairs , that he had forgotten that it might have some other effect on Martha 's .
13 It could have it could have some more shopping , it could have another primary school , it could have a rail link , or some other public transport link .
14 Nor does the County Council believe that it will have any noticeable effect on the objectives of the adjoining authority in West Yorkshire .
15 While this type of filter can be used on the cichlid breeding aquarium , removing any debris that the digging cichlids stir up , it can have one serious drawback in that it will also remove any fry from the tank as well and has to be used with care in this situation , if at all .
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