Example sentences of "this [modal v] have [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This may have serious consequences in the critical years ahead .
2 This may have etiological and epidemiological similarities to Type II ostertagiasis in young cattle .
3 Ask your doctor or travel agent , as this may have legal implications .
4 Hence , where a particular company , individual or government is not observing Community law , the person who is adversely affected by this failure may commence an action to enforce his or her rights under Community law ; this may have profound effects .
5 But resource ownershipmay well be monopolistic in character , and where a resource is owned by a monopolist , this may have important implications for the course of production .
6 A variable which has played an important role in many theories of driving behaviour is subjective risk and it seems likely that this may have important influences on drivers ’ memory for situations for a number of reasons .
7 This may have embarrassed Loughborough 's Richard Wareham , the tight-head who played in the England Under-21 front row when they hammered Romania in Bucharest last May , and the youngsters continued to go backwards at a rate of knots in tight and loose .
8 The operation has to be performed within limits of 1 mm and any deviation from this may have disastrous consequences , resulting in total loss of hearing in the ear being operated upon .
9 This may have some root in Tolkien 's own experience , for it stresses the unwisdom of fathers leaving their children — Tolkien hardly knew his own father — and seems to be groping towards a statement about the incompatibility of men and women , users and providers , wasters and winners .
10 This may have some truth , but seems unsatisfactory as a complete explanation .
11 This may have some validity ; after the devaluation of the coinage in 1465 , when its silver content was cut by 20 per cent , there was a price rise of 7 per cent .
12 Now what will happen is erm , erm there are signs of which is happening abroad already , that people will go from the United States , other parts of the world , they will fly in and they will fly into Frankfurt and they will erm fly into other European erm airports and Heathrow relative to others will begin to lose it 's position , and therefore from a national point of view , from an economic point of view , it is very important that Heathrow does sort of maintain er it 's er position and nobody 's denying that this may have some sort of , erm er important erm environmental erm dis dispendant and er if stick by them if you you 're going to .
13 Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses .
14 A change in the Sun 's output by 0.2 per cent alters the Earth 's temperature by 0.2°C , and this should have noticeable effects on our climate and weather patterns .
15 If it receives one about a member who is a partner in a firm of registered auditors , a copy of the complainant 's letter is sent to the ARC , which will consider whether this should have any effect on the firm 's continued registration .
16 This must have serious implications for the viability of Hurd 's ideas , for the resulting tensions between states are bound to threaten their long-term security .
17 Combined with a club meeting , this must have all the ingredients of a satisfying hobby .
18 I mean you 're talking about having computers in the offices and perhaps in the home , now this must have great impact on the future education needs of people who are going to use these devices , surely ?
19 The longer people spend on the roads , the greater , presumably , the congestion and also probably the greater the accident rate : the slower traffic moves , the greater is the number of man lives spent on roads and this must have some place in the equation of national activity and productivity .
20 Saint-Saëns used the instrument in his Danse Macabre of 1874 to suggest rattling bones ; this might have amused Gustave .
21 Sensing how this might have harmful repercussions , Halloran and co-workers asked : ‘ How long will peaceful demonstrators seeking a new mode of expression be content to demonstrate peacefully when whatever they do is likely to get the negative treatment ? ’ ( ibid.:317 ) .
22 It indicated that developing countries dependent on oil imports could face costs of up to US$26,000 million per year if the US$30 per barrel price continued , and warned that this could have serious repercussions on their economies .
23 This could have unfortunate consequences on their performance and/or their self-esteem .
24 Also , it may prove possible to manipulate NO neurotransmission pharmacologically , either inhibiting or enhancing it , and this could have important therapeutic implications in the management of disordered anorectal function .
25 Where there was a powerful figure , this could have important political consequences , particularly in times of civil war , as in 1471 when the Hastings connection provided important support for the newly returned Edward IV .
26 This could have frightening implications , both political and economic , for Germany , which has done more to try to help Russia than any other European state , providing $40 billion in loans , half her external debt , and for the Eastern European countries which are still struggling to convert to a market economy .
27 Be warned , this could have some unpleasant effects if your system was nearly full before you started .
28 This could have severe repercussions for the landlord in that it could include easements over the adjoining retained land of the landlord adversely affecting the landlord 's ability to use or develop that land .
29 The OEF warned against relaxing interest rates too quickly as this would have little immediate impact on the economy while storing up ‘ problems for the future ’ .
30 This would have long-term genetic implications ( Independent 21.8.90 ) .
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