Example sentences of "it [vb mod] have [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 It may have a wider application with the advent of ‘ pen ’ syringes now available utilising cartridges for short-acting insulin .
4 It may have a seed growing within it , or be empty .
5 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 .
6 The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Backwards and forwards the engine passes , increasing its load at each operation , until behind its tender it may have a string of vehicles more than two hundred yards in length with a brake van in the rear .
10 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 .
11 Now , if , if a child sends a distress call to a certain level of intensity , it may get a certain amount back , but it may have a sibling who sends the distress call a slightly higher level of intensity and might get some more back .
12 Surprisingly enough , it may have a great deal to do with conveyancing .
13 [ 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' .
14 It may have a duty to inform the public about the misconduct of a candidate for election , but only in newspapers which circulate in the candidate 's constituency .
15 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 .
16 Merchandise as a premium does not have the universal appeal of money , but it may have a more pointed appeal than cash or a price reduction .
17 And t and th then , since the paper talk , that 's right , it 's nothing to do with it , but it may have a bit to do with justice , we 'll get round to it in a bit .
18 Research in any of the sciences , including medicine , may be totally ‘ unproductive ’ ; it may have no immediate bearing on making , mending , or curing .
19 Often , even when an object can be positively identified as having religious significance , it may have no bearing on the situation in which it was found — many looted religious objects have been found in places far from where they were made and used .
20 On the other hand it may have no apparent effect on the child but may still have serious implications .
21 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 .
22 If the Secretary exercises such right the Lead Organization will notify the Party affected so that it may have the opportunity of making representations to the Secretary of State .
23 And now it may have the same problem over here .
24 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 .
25 It may have an Elim label on it , but I think ‘ Breakthrough 2000 ’ is a vision from God that deserves wider exposure .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 Although that does not necessarily mean that they are good or bad managers , it may have an impact on the employees ' decision about whether they wish to be part of any bid .
29 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 .
30 The change to regular publication of these abstracts in Index to Theses from 1988 onwards is a significant improvement in bibliographical control of UK theses and it may have an effect on the way in which theses are used .
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