Example sentences of "may [vb infin] have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do , however , appreciate that being creatures of habit , many people may prefer to have a similar breakfast each day , for the sake of speed and perhaps taste also . |
| 2 | Aside from running their hands over the dog 's body and legs , checking its conformation , judges may want to have a clear view of the dog 's mouth , to check , for example , that the jaws are neither under or overshot , according to the breed standard . |
| 3 | John Watkins University Press I think there 's a copy in the library erm , you may want to have a little look at it , but so what we 're going do is we incorporate both these two hypothesis into a model supply response okay . |
| 4 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 5 | If the access to your front door is difficult , perhaps with steps , you may need to have a ramp made , if the patient is still in a wheelchair . |
| 6 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 7 | I 'm conscious of the time , and we may like to have a break for tea , but there are also three people who wish to contribute to the discussion . |
| 8 | The number of sympathisers able to support IRA operations on the Continent is smaller than in Northern Ireland , so the recruitment of a few informers may have had a disproportionate effect . |
| 9 | The severity may have had a cause hidden from the young Ramsey . |
| 10 | But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 11 | This week 's extension of the suspension has lead to a further letter to unit trust holders.But it gives no indication that the pricing problems may have had a long history . |
| 12 | He is generally unmarried , even though he may have had a shady past which included associating with women . |
| 13 | Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty . |
| 14 | This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff . |
| 15 | Active swimmers in the surface waters of the present oceans are likely to feed directly on the plankton , and the trilobites may have had a method of harvesting large quantities of minute food . |
| 16 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 17 | Therefore , Leapor may have had a considerable influence on the choice of poems to be printed . |
| 18 | It may have had a certain validity , especially in Scotland with its constellation of key organizations within or close to Glasgow . |
| 19 | All right , the secretary of state may have had a Cabinet committee meeting . |
| 20 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 21 | Relativity may have had a better press , but it is quantum theory that we have to thank , at a practical level , for our understanding of chemistry , molecular biology and solid-state physics , as well as nuclear physics and the deeper puzzles of particle theory . |
| 22 | Others may have had a succession of live-in boy or girl friends , lasting as long as it suited them both . |
| 23 | The similarity of their design to cup-and-ring patterns is striking and suggests that they may have had a ritual function . |
| 24 | He also considered that the nature of the terrain in this area may have had a marked effect on forecast wind conditions . |
| 25 | It may have had a more sinister purpose later , as it is now known as The Whipping Stone . |
| 26 | Dinosaurs may have had a four-chambered heart ; if so they were probably warm-blooded . |
| 27 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Only a handful may have had a minor invasive procedure , ’ said Dr Peter Povey , Bolton 's director of public health , adding the risk to patients was negligible . |
| 29 | Rather than view the Sancton-Baston pottery as the products of individual potters or workshops ( Myres 1969 ; 1977 ) , the fact that five sets of dies were cut to produce a minimum of nine vessels suggests that the decoration of the pottery may have had a totemic significance to individual families . |
| 30 | They may have had a function in aiding the picking out of broken threads on the loom . |