Example sentences of "may have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We may have drunk judgmentalism in our mother 's milk , or received a streak of meanness from our father . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | " Though many ( candidates ) may have ample material they mar their chances by solecism , malapropisms , dreadful spelling and grammatical errors sometimes so gross as to obscure meaning " . |
| 4 | He or she may have emotional problems that result in occasional deliberate binges but that is not necessarily alcoholism . |
| 5 | He may have proportional representation , or he may not ; he wo n't say . |
| 6 | Curiously they are mistaken , for though a man may have unsatisfied desires he keeps them out of sight and soon enough he masters them . |
| 7 | Equally , the local library or county record office may have early maps or plans , which will provide a clue to the building 's origin . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there are some regional variations in economic terms which may have increasing impact on the resources available to be shared in families , especially the rising value of property in the south of England and the better job opportunities there . |
| 9 | Some languages have very simple syllable patterns like V and CV , while others may have complex patterns like CCVC , CCVCC , CCCVCC , etc . |
| 10 | If you lose your keys , or if someone steals your keys , or if you move into a new home and you do not know who may have spare keys change all the locks immediately . |
| 11 | Such interactions may have adverse effects on either product or container or both . |
| 12 | The standard of NHS accommodation available to trained staff is variable , and even if you are happy to put up with this in the short term , in the longer term it may have adverse effects on your personal life or hopes of a future career . |
| 13 | It seems more reasonable to anticipate a response to a formal written instrument , especially one which may have adverse consequences on a third State , and thus to regard lack of response as acceptance of that agreement , than it is to demand early protest to an emergent rule of customary international law . |
| 14 | Again it is generally definable only through social custom but in this case it has more significance since the breaking of social taboo may have adverse effect on the child . |
| 15 | To develop a recovery method , Morgan , Saunders and Pickup used a Gem called Pseudomonas putida mt-2 , a modified common soil bacterium which may have wide applications for destroying toxic substances . |
| 16 | Unlike those employed in Persian and Anatolian rugs , these may have specific meanings , depending on their inner patterning . |
| 17 | Many councillors , moreover , are builders , businessmen , transport workers , accountants and so forth who may have appropriate specialist knowledge . |
| 18 | Special Scheme Travel Policies may have slight variations in cover and should be handled accordingly . |
| 19 | Special Scheme Home policies may have slight variations in cover and should be handled accordingly . |
| 20 | In detail barrier reefs consist of whole series of individual reefs and may have small islands on them . |
| 21 | The collapse of marine mammal and sea-bird populations may have far-reaching consequences as the complex pattern of interrelationships among creatures in the marine ecosystem changes . |
| 22 | The core of weekday daytime programming is the ‘ playlist ’ , which has three major uses for Radio I : it provides an overall sound or ‘ station feel ’ ; it is an effective way to monitor how often the most popular records are played ; and it makes a group responsibility out of a decision which may have far-reaching effects for individual musicians and the music industry . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Individuals have different needs , and these will differ according to their situation and time of life : a young graduate may have a strong need to sense that she or he fits into an organisation , while a middle-aged employee facing redundancy may have future security as a main priority . |
| 25 | Compared to states or executives , governments tend to be of short duration — state institutions often remain in existence for long periods and officials in the executive may have lifelong careers , while governments come and go ( although some of their personnel may hold office in more than one government ) . |
| 26 | Two shots of adrenalin through my blood in as many days — this task may have lasting ill-effects on my health . |
| 27 | Some contracts may be impossible to get out of , or may have expensive cancellation clauses . |
| 28 | They may have mental pictures of disaster which are profoundly disturbing . |
| 29 | Other surveys have estimated that as many as a third or a quarter of prisoners may have mental health problems ( Fennell , 1991 ) . |
| 30 | r=it1 in every 700 people in the U.K. may have Multiple Sclerosis |