Example sentences of "[conj] [modal v] [adv] have [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element .
2 A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home .
3 Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ?
4 Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence .
5 So , although a wild horse would continually roam in search of food , a domestic horse may not , or may not have the opportunity to do so .
6 And may or may not have the resolution , the constancy , so to do .
7 By the same token , the airline should inform the official investigators of any suspicions or failures that they have experienced in the recent past that might conceivably have a bearing on the accident .
8 ‘ Maybe that would help the lower ranked people to have the motivation and to get eager , ’ she added , while acknowledging that might merely have the effect of less ambitious ones accepting good money for being relative failures .
9 Note that this saving throw is not strictly speaking because of armour , and the Orc always has a saving throw of 6 even if he is struck by a weapon that would normally have a saving throw modifier .
10 Those who wish to apply for admission to these degrees should possess at least an upper second class honours degree or its equivalent and may well have a Masters ' degree .
11 As a homosexual himself we learn , through his poetry , that Gunn has lost many close friends to the disease and may well have the HIV virus himself .
12 The vast majority of defendants , even politically motivated ones , have not the energy , and may not have the means , to launch long and expensive appeals .
13 The protector often has powers to prevent trustees from doing things and may even have the power to remove trustees .
14 A consequence of this unquestioning enthusiasm is that the implications of change have not been thought through , and may yet have a sting or two in the tail .
15 Community legislation may be comprehensive without necessarily dealing with the precise point raised by the Member State , and may therefore have the effect of ‘ freezing ’ the situation .
16 the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) .
17 Instead of musical mats , children can ‘ walk the plank ’ and should not have a foot on it or be the last person to pass over when the music stops .
18 Businesses searching for financial assistance can be start-ups or already trading , and should normally have a business plan .
19 They should be designed with the needs of cycle traffic in mind and should normally have the right of way at crossroads .
20 It is also worth noting that in Edinburgh Scottish English , phonologically prominent syllables are typically uttered with raised or high pitch and need not have the type of pitch movement associated with phonological prominence in descriptions of standard southern English ( cf.
21 She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’
22 ‘ Very often , at Ealing , the Director himself would think up ideas for films and would probably have a lot to do with the genesis of the scripts as well . ’
23 He blamed Rose , and would n't have a word said against William .
24 I asked him if he would teach John music , and explained the difficulty , as John wanted to know too soon and would not have the patience to practise .
25 The right hon. Gentleman made a statement in the House about a fast track procedure under which some applicants would be sifted out immediately and would not have the right of appeal — at least not the right of audience in an appeal or representation in an appeal .
26 It was made clear that the CIS was not considered a state or even a supranational grouping , and would therefore have no citizenship .
27 He took it all for granted , and would never have a clue just how blessed he was .
28 A specialist addiction unit based upon the principles of the Anonymous Fellowships will have knowledge of the compulsive nature of eating disorders and will also have an awareness of how family members and other well-intentioned helpers may unwittingly enable the disease to continue .
29 Whoever gets the job will be responsible for foreign affairs and defence , will have the right to dissolve parliament and will also have the right to veto laws passed by parliament .
30 The teacher will be unprepared for change and will not have the flexibility needed to adapt to new situations …
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