Example sentences of "it [modal v] have [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 2 | However , even if we are extremely successful in improving the quality of auditing , it may have little effect on the public 's perception of the profession . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It may have many branches leading to many other nerve cells . |
| 5 | It is not itself a specific condition with a simple ‘ guaranteed ’ treatment ; because it may have many causes , which can be quite difficult to pinpoint . |
| 6 | The government may have only some of the of the authority it claims , it may have more authority over one person than over another . |
| 7 | Boston-based Ares Software Corp is hoping to licence its FontChameleon technology to operating system designers , application developers and printer manufacturers , and it may have some success since FontChameleon is supposedly compatible with existing PostScript and TrueType standards . |
| 8 | Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate . |
| 9 | ‘ It may have some connection with certain other matters we are investigating . |
| 10 | They 've had additional training in in erm filling in correctly the the the form and will pick up erm for example on the erm the principal accountabilities — every accountability should have three parts , it should be an action verb to help , or to do , or to ensure , or whatever and it should be what it is you 're doing and thirdly it ought to have some sort of erm target in in in doing it . |
| 11 | 1 ) It should have fewer problems with extraneous words than island-driving strategies since it ‘ prefers ’ to work left to right . |
| 12 | The idea seems to be that if priests are given a ‘ properly informed sexual education ’ this will prevent their ‘ love of chastity ’ being displaced by the temptations of the flesh , but I see no reason why it should have this effect . |
| 13 | Explaining how he had instituted a series of business briefs , which go out to CBI members by fax every week , he said each message ‘ should be conversational , it should be easily accessible and it should have some value to the reader or the listener ’ . |
| 14 | Surely it should have more potential than the Booker : the romantic novel has a wider mass readership , and there are few prizes for this end of the market . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Put simply this means that it must have some means of accepting information from the user , normally a keyboard , and giving results back , traditionally a screen of some kind . |
| 17 | It is not material whether he hath a court or no ; all the matter is , whether he hath a jurisdiction ; if he hath conusance of the matter and person , and he gives a sentence , it must have some effect to make a vacancy , be it never so wrong . |
| 18 | ‘ If the sentence be given by the proper visitor , created so by the founder , or by the law , you shall never inquire into the validity , or ground of the sentence … private and particular corporations for charity , founded and endowed by private persons , are subject to the private government of those who erect them … if [ the visitor ] hath conusance of the matter and person , and he gives a sentence , it must have some effect to make a vacancy , be it never so wrong . |
| 19 | Yeah , I think it must have some effect there |
| 20 | Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced . |
| 21 | And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now . |
| 22 | Even if the accident does not seem serious at the time , but you think it might have some ill-effect in the future you should apply to the DSS for a decision that it was an industrial accident . |
| 23 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 24 | Ooh I 'm not sure with my blades up it 'll have much effect but we can try . |
| 25 | it 'll have some pattern but not |
| 26 | It 'll have more coughs and splutters and er traffic and everything on this side . |
| 27 | No , but it could have several cheeks , quite often yes . |
| 28 | For example , one director commented that when he saw a topic referred to a few times then it would ‘ click ’ in his mind , and he would then consider if it could have some significance to his company . |
| 29 | It used to have less unemployment than the regional or national average . |
| 30 | ‘ I wonder if it would have that smile if it knew of Belsen . ’ |