Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] have [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Both parties to the contract may have their own terms , and each may wish to contract on its own terms .
2 Although some of the distinctive lexis of the London variety of Jamaican Creole may have its origins in Rasta speech , there is no clear evidence that Rastafarian influence on the structure of the Creole goes any further than that .
3 This is the more important part of the capital/income confusion in public sector organizations : agreement on the irrelevance of income as a performance measure can often be readily obtained because service provision may have nothing to do with the profit motive ; on the other hand , all organizations have capital of some sort .
4 The GP should have his defibrillator with him .
5 A business course should , naturally , have a string of business situations and a science course should have plenty of scientific vocabulary .
6 The master said : If there are no lovers for the beauties of Khvarism , yet Khvarism must have its lovers , seeing there are countless beauties in that land .
7 I 'm against some sorts of professionalization , but it would be silly to think that the university should have nothing to do with any profession .
8 Hoomey must have it wrong , she thought .
9 I did get into a car the other day to drive to London to the Imperial War Museum to see an exhibition of work by Tony Carter and was excited by it , but my appreciation may have something to do with the fact that he was a student of mine so I have been familiar with his ideas over many years .
10 In his work on political oppositions in western democracies , Robert Dahl observed that patterns of opposition may have something to do with widely shared cultural premises .
11 Even though the PTA or parents ' association may have their own management structure including a treasurer there needs to be inbuilt into the system a means of close financial supervision by the school .
12 Extrapolation of data from rat to man is difficult , but it is tempting to speculate that the findings in the present study may have its parallel in man and explain some findings reported in patients with diseases accompanied by hypergastrinemia .
13 Successful politicians may have it ; captains of industry may have it ; captains in sport may have it .
14 But the Literary Critic may have its finest effects outside the educational and professional establishments .
15 For example , extreme or bizarre reactions to bereavement may have their roots in unconscious feelings belonging to earlier experiences of loss .
16 Every gnome should have one .
17 He thinks Labour should have its own economic policy , instead of shadowing the Tories as they shadow the Germans .
18 Modern choral forms tend to avoid idioms so closely associated with past epochs , and ideally each piece should have its own particular form , which is a compromise between the form of the words and the needs of the music .
19 Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances .
20 And good competitors claiming a seven pound allowance , the trainer 'll have him .
21 The bank manager , accountant , solicitor or building contractor might have something to offer at a particular time or for a particular purpose but they would not be fully established voting members of the group .
22 I 'm even more disappointed in the conservatives , for not opposing it , I do n't object to their list of members being published , I do n't see that that would do any harm , as far as I 'm concerned , every employee could have their wages printed up on the wall .
23 The creditor who had been splashed by his debtor 's wheel could have his carriage seized the next day .
24 Constraint and ceremony could have nothing to say to her that would not be wearisome to hear as it was costly to say .
25 It would not necessarily be capable of moving debris , but any debris lifted by wave action would have its direction of fall influenced by the direction of the bottom current .
26 We match for tonal characteristics , not candle light or simple power output , as Hartley 's analogy would have you believe .
27 Sometimes a toy car would have its moment of glory , but it would soon be forgotten .
28 ‘ Because no man in his right mind would have you .
29 I would have thought the UK hotelier would have nothing to fear from a European directive , ’ he said .
30 As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ .
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