Example sentences of "it may have [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There are 5–8 pointed arm spines ; the second ventralmost spine and some of those dorsal to it may have a small distally directed terminal hook .
2 Surprisingly enough , it may have a great deal to do with conveyancing .
3 It may have a dysfunctional effect on staff motivation if figures for capitation ‘ appear from on high ’ rather than from a more open assessment of needs and available resources .
4 There are very few things take place in the world in which Fiji has a direct interest , it may have a general interest in the way things are going but it , direct interests it , it 's quite limited .
5 An attractor that has a positive maximal Lyapunov exponent , and so has a high sensitivity to initial conditions , often has a very complicated structure , in that it may have a noninteger , fractal dimension , and have some of the properties of a Cantor set .
6 It may have a wider application with the advent of ‘ pen ’ syringes now available utilising cartridges for short-acting insulin .
7 On average , only 15 mites were found per thousand ants , but the researchers say that the mite 's habit of moving from one host worker to another , possibly because it quickly exhausts each host , means that it may have a greater impact on the colony than its apparent rarity first suggests .
8 It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices .
9 [ its ] own mores , which govern the relations of its members to each other , and it may have a high degree of morale , developed in fighting other gangs or defying the law' .
10 First , it may be scattered and diffused among a variety of objects of devotion , as in polytheism ; or it may have a single focus , as in monotheism .
11 Research in any of the sciences , including medicine , may be totally ‘ unproductive ’ ; it may have no immediate bearing on making , mending , or curing .
12 On the other hand it may have no apparent effect on the child but may still have serious implications .
13 There may arise circumstances in which a doctor may use a form of treatment for his patient 's benefit aware of the fact that it may have the secondary effect of accelerating ( or run the risk of accelerating ) the patient 's death .
14 And now it may have the same problem over here .
15 A series of bipartite agreements , each allocating a particular territory to a retailer would be treated entirely differently from a ( registrable ) multipartite agreement regarding exclusivity , though it may have the same effect .
16 The course should be general in nature if it is to comply with UKCC criteria , but it may have an additional specialist component aimed at preparing nurses for work in different clinical settings .
17 Secured stock has the advantage that a lower yield will be expected because of the lower risk , but it may have an adverse effect upon gearing and the offeror 's ability to borrow .
18 In men , cats and rats , the prevention of REM sleep by selective awakenings results in increased amounts of this sleep stage on recovery , as if what had been " missed " was then being " made up " , suggesting that not only does this sleep stage have its own drive mechanism , but it may have an important function .
19 This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities .
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