Example sentences of "be [conj] [det] [noun] have " in BNC.

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1 The general implications of Lienhardt 's argument are that all languages have the potential to make abstract , relatively neutral statements , if called upon to do so .
2 Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) .
3 The good reasons are that these projects have not been chucking people out into the community " willy-nilly " .
4 The experience of the European Convention has been that this procedure has been little used , with most allegations of violations of the Convention commenced through individual petition .
5 Juliet Mitchell in her work Psychoanalysis and Feminism has pointed to the significance of this task , but the problem , as suggested above , has been that most analyses have not been sufficiently historically specific to make them usable .
6 ( 2 ) The court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if that individual had not entered into that transaction . ’
7 All the suggestions for improvement had been adequately implemented so the conclusion could only be that neither party had grasped the size and nature of the problem .
8 Other papers in the Public Records Office showed the misgivings of the naval staff about the two incidents , for by now the Germans had found the dead soldiers , and there were fears of reprisals against any British submarine crews subsequently captured — indeed it may be that these events had some bearing on the subsequent shootings of British commandos captured in that area .
9 The conclusion will be that these explanations have recently developed in promising directions .
10 In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests .
11 Could it be that some machines have been neglected all summer ?
12 In any case , it could well be that some students have no interest at all in certain idioms and prefer to by-pass them quickly in their search for what expresses their own aesthetic more closely .
13 It may well be that some accountant has shown the society a loophole through which it can escape the obligations laid upon it at its foundation in 1914 .
14 The hope must be that both bodies have emerged from the fire hardened in their dealings with other regulatory bodies on behalf of the City and the country .
15 It may well be that several groups have had a burglary , in which case the teacher could use this as the focus : " How are we going to deal with it ?
16 If he is right , it may well be that this policeman has finally made the break from vulgar self-advertisement into the megalomaniac personality cult fantasies of a Kim Il Sung or a Robert Maxwell .
17 Though this would not satisfy purists , the only factor that would invalidate the productivity index for this purpose would be if some companies had widely different subcontract proportions in their outputs ; these would have apparently higher figures than the others .
18 This may be because these goals have changed , but it may equally be because the social world for which the original policies were designed has changed .
19 But the facts were that most Frenchmen had not been in the Resistance and that the Resistance itself was divided into different groups .
20 you insurance them centrally as it were and each resident has to pay part of the insurance cost ?
21 You you see the important thing is that that contract has to be done in front of the and so does the copy , so does the cheque so they 're all done on the spot .
22 I would go so far as to say that one of the main reasons why there are fewer casualties among pedestrians and particularly children in countries such as West Germany is that that country has more flexibility in the use of speed limits .
23 One of the rules of gardening is that all rules have an exception !
24 The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA .
25 On the face of it this seems to be a good idea : one frequently voiced criticism of comprehensive education is that all pupils have been forced to follow a grammar-school curriculum .
26 The prime reason for this is that such warehouses have become machines and will only operate correctly if the logic for their function has been meticulously thought out , checked and rechecked .
27 One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ .
28 The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily .
29 What is more unexpected is that such inequalities have increased over the years .
30 A universal set of features is an attractive idea , but the price one pays is that each feature has to do many jobs , and the meaning associated with it gets spread thinner and thinner , like a small amount of butter on a large amount of bread .
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