Example sentences of "they [modal v] have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find that about 5 per cent of the students I teach are never able to overcome this difficulty ( even though they may have perfect hearing and in some cases a high level of linguistic and musical ability ) ; of the remainder , a few are especially gifted and can not understand how anyone could find the task difficult , and most others eventually learn after five or ten hours of practical classes . |
| 2 | And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package . |
| 3 | When women are in touch with this instinctive level of life , they may have deep insights into current situations . |
| 4 | A final problem is that these substances may be taken up into the blood supply as it passes through the brain and carried to other parts of the body where they may have toxic effects that confound their effects on the nervous system . |
| 5 | The elderly , unemployed , the less skilled , single-parent families , larger families are all concentrated in council tenure because it is the only form of tenure to which they may have easy access . |
| 6 | Local governments have eagerly become involved , both because such agencies appear to offer new opportunities for development and because they may have legal powers ( for example on financial assistance ) which exceed their own . |
| 7 | Even if these groups do not overtly express their grievances , they may have latent interests which are being repressed . |
| 8 | They may have changing patterns of substance use and an unstructured lifestyle which may lead them to want services intermittently . |
| 9 | They may have other qualities which are worthwhile having , but trying to get them to change their minds requires one kind of approach . |
| 10 | They may have other grievances concerning the prison regime , parole , the behaviour of prison staff and the prison disciplinary system ( see Chapters 5 and 6 ) . |
| 11 | However , most new shareholders have only a small stake in the companies in which they have invested , and in reality they may have little influence upon the way that the companies are run ( see , for example , the claims of John Scott pp. 57–62 ) . |
| 12 | Governors have an increasing responsibility for schools they serve , very much like a board of directors of a public company but , unlike company directors , they may have little specialist knowledge or previous experience of management . |
| 13 | If staff find themselves having to implement policy which they have no part in making , they may have little commitment to it and may in the longer term become alienated . |
| 14 | They may have mental pictures of disaster which are profoundly disturbing . |
| 15 | The latter agents may not cause abnormalities of either carbohydrate or lipid metabolism ( Donnelly & Harrower , 1980 ; Faergeman et al , 1984 ; Rodjmark & Andersson , 1984 ) , despite several case reports ( Charles et al , 1981 ; Bhatnagar et al , 1984 ) , and they may have fewer side-effects than cardioselective β-blocking drugs . |
| 16 | They may have bad experiences from visiting prisons in the past . |
| 17 | A great many popular songs use nothing else in their melodies , though they may have triadic harmony in the accompaniment ( two ‘ evergreen ’ examples are shown below ) . |
| 18 | Bob Rose , manager of the specialist child care units , says unless SSDs put young people in secure care they may have less chance of controlling young people than parents . |
| 19 | In whichever way the results of an assessment are communicated , it is reasonable to assume that they may have important implications for the way in which the child is dealt with in the future . |
| 20 | The smaller versions range in height from 100m to 1000 m , but because their slopes typically have low gradients ( usually < 10° ) they may have basal diameters of 2–20 km . |
| 21 | They may have different areas of expertise and will be able to concentrate on these without having to sit through lengthy periods when colleagues are asking questions about their own area of interest . |
| 22 | They may be older , they may have different qualifications , they may come from a family background where entering higher education is not a traditional path to a career . |
| 23 | For example , before a person visits America , they may have theoretical knowledge about it . |
| 24 | They may have more toys , games and TVs per room than any other generation but lack the stimulation of reading , listening to music and the radio of Gable 's youth . |
| 25 | So now is the ideal time for growers who suspect they may have herbicide-resistant strains of the weed to get them checked , says ADAS 's James Clarke . |
| 26 | Inevitably , doubts have been expressed about the credibility of such statements , but they may have some significance nonetheless . |
| 27 | Many humans have taken ‘ objects ’ , that is , in this case , people , of the same sex , and although they may have some experience of heterosexual intercourse , they may prefer and may frequently perform homosexual acts . |
| 28 | The experiential approach therefore tries to get pupils in communication with the depths in themselves so that they may have some idea of what that is like for other people , as well as helping them to be more truly " present " in what they are studying . |
| 29 | Differential ownership of mechanical aids , and differences in the possession of amenities , may affect the way housework is done , and they may have some influence on attitudes to work tasks , but they do not appear to affect satisfaction with work . |
| 30 | The conclusion on predators is therefore that they have minimal effects on small mammal populations when numbers are high , that they have no braking effect when numbers are increasing , that they may have some effect when numbers are declining , but their major effect is when numbers are low , when they may also delay the recovery phase of the population cycle ( Southern , 1979 ) . |