Example sentences of "may have no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases we may have no difficulty in finding several groups , but in every case we shall find one ( or two ) . |
| 2 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |
| 3 | It has been claimed that automatic crystallisation is unfair in the sense that it could prejudice subsequent chargees who do not know , and indeed who may have no way of knowing , that the charge has crystallised . |
| 4 | An expert may have no entitlement to fees and expenses if the reference itself is invalid , as appears to have been the consequence in Darlington Borough Council v Waring & Gillow ( Holdings ) Ltd [ 1988 ] 2 EGLR 159 , discussed at 10.4.2 . |
| 5 | In others , the salesperson may have no scope for such discussions ; in essence the product is offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis . |
| 6 | On the other hand it appears that on occasions drivers may have no memory at all for road signs which they have just seen or for relatively complex manoeuvres which they have only just performed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In non-reciprocal discourse , sender and receiver may have no opportunity for interaction . |
| 9 | Well let's say we 've made up for it , for you may have no doubt whom to thank for your performance at the court . |
| 10 | We may have no choice but to do so , though I believe that the change has been more damaging than beneficial . |
| 11 | Small children may have no choice about being included , but could develop strong feelings about it as they grow up . |
| 12 | " Difficult to invite a tradesman to one 's house , but the bills are piling up so quickly I may have no choice . " |
| 13 | Alternatively the council may write to the prisoner to say that his/her tenancy can not be held any longer with the result that the prisoner may have no home to go to when released . |
| 14 | Another and widely spread practice is for the head of a laboratory to add his name automatically to any paper published from it , though he may have no contribution at all to the work . |
| 15 | A sufferer from alcoholism may have no recollection of his or her behaviour the night before , nor of how he or she got home . |
| 16 | Even if it can be established beyond all reasonable doubt that certain cultural items were indeed originally developed in one place and thence diffused to another , by whatever means ( not excluding industrial espionage ) , this may have no relevance whatsoever to their significance in the new environment . |
| 17 | They need not be subjected to obtrusive or distressing questions that may have no relevance to their illness , and no one will be singled out for discriminatory treatment . |
| 18 | The slogan ‘ reduction of waiting lists ’ as applied to elective surgery or outpatient appointments is simplistic and may have no relevance to actual or imminent medical needs of patients and their families . |
| 19 | It should be noted that although gas or electricity mains pass across or near the site , this may have no relevance to availability of the respective services . |
| 20 | Such notes are usually signed by the buyer 's warehouse staff , who are not necessarily part of the buyer 's purchasing department , and may have no idea of what the requirement under the contract is in relation to the goods . |
| 21 | Stein said : ‘ I may have no money and no authority but I have got my principles . |
| 22 | Stein said : ‘ I may have no money and no authority but I have my principles . |
| 23 | Retail outlets in towns and busy shopping centres , which face tougher competition , spend more on advertising than a village shop , which may have no competitors nearby . |
| 24 | ‘ SHOULD membership and market not unite behind this plan then Lloyd 's may have no future . ’ |
| 25 | There are now two kinds of household : a minority where the wife does not work , and may have no intention of returning to work , to which the old expectations apply , and a rising majority of households with working wives for which the economics of childbearing have been reversed . |
| 26 | For the first time Unionists may have no representative on the predominantly Catholic West Bank . |
| 27 | A parish may have no Reader and its clergy may be overstretched because of having to care for a number of churches . |
| 28 | In many the majority may have no religion at all , and may be totally sceptical about the necessity for there to exist any such thing . |
| 29 | But a man may have no son , or he may have too many among whom to share his limited lands and principles had to be modified continually to meet particular circumstances . |
| 30 | To be more specific , the gene R in Figure 5 , which makes recombination possible , may have no effect at all on the survival of an organism in which it finds itself , or on the number of offspring produced ; what R can affect is only the particular kinds of genes with which it will be associated in future generations . |