Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb mod] have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it may have little or no practical effect . |
| 2 | If management , as usually conceived , attempts to mediate this role it will either fail utterly because it will be excluded by the people involved , or it will have distorting effects which can only be dysfunctional . |
| 3 | Again , however , one wonders how far this was mere rhetoric in the original or mere gesture in the repetition ; although it may have some influence on the ‘ mission statements ’ that some institutions are now struggling to formulate . |
| 4 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 5 | However , I do believe that this exchange together with the evidence I heard illustrates the understandable concern of the dock company to ensure that it would have unrestricted access to the port for itself and its sublessees who would operate there . |
| 6 | Doetsch found that his synthetic analogue prevented the normal development of the viral infection within the cells , prompting him to suggest that it might have therapeutic potential ( Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences , 1981 , vol 78 , p 6699 ) . |
| 7 | Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced . |
| 8 | Each hand drilled hole had to be carefully positioned in order that it might have greatest effect , but it did not matter so much with machine holes . |
| 9 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 10 | In a muddled way , he expected that she might fall into his arms , that he would be able to comfort her and that one thing would lead to another ; and so absorbed had he become in the effect Sam 's death would have on his own affairs , that he had forgotten that it might have some other effect on Martha 's . |
| 11 | And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now . |
| 12 | And that it may have practical applications . |
| 13 | IN A LONG apologia for having had the temerity to undertake a psycho-biography of Mrs Thatcher , Leo Abse denies that his book is a personal attack on her , but agrees that it may have some admonitory function in warning people not to acquiesce too readily in the disposition of someone who would appear , on his argument , to be gravely unbalanced . |
| 14 | He suggests that shifts in the social and political climate in the United States may have had something to do with this change : the very dates of the steep rise of interest in functionalism among sociological theorists also suggests that it may have some ideological import . |
| 15 | Leeds is now the third largest city in England and the 20th in Europe , so it is right that it should have international ambitions . |
| 16 | It is a tribute to the makers of The Krays , to its director and cast , that it should have such a profound effect . |
| 17 | I think with the the people who say that it should have clear instructions , it 's not immediately obvious which button you should press , and maybe you , maybe something which says , Visitors , please press here , or something like that . |
| 18 | There is nothing inherently blippy or noisy about that bit pattern Nothing about it tells you that it will have that effect on the loudspeaker . |
| 19 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 20 | The centre will test for interoperability between ICL and non-ICL hardware , software and operating systems at the request of customers , and ICL says that it will have 12 similar centres open worldwide by the end of the year — rising to 50 by the end of 1994 . |
| 21 | The rationale of the overall programme of work is that it will have clear implications for policy and the prevention of problems associated with the consumption of addictive substances and clear implications also for the social sciences . |
| 22 | Nor does the County Council believe that it will have any noticeable effect on the objectives of the adjoining authority in West Yorkshire . |
| 23 | A written sentence , on the other hand , can more easily be HYPOTACTIC , which means that it can have complex relations between its parts — one inside another , rather than just one after another . |
| 24 | In our electronic technology the discrete , digital locations have only two states , conventionally represented as 0 and 1 although you can think of them as high and low , on and off , up and down : all that matters is that they should be distinct from one another , and that the pattern of their states can be ‘ read out ’ so that it can have some influence on something . |
| 25 | Instead , try to pull over if possible and find somewhere to take the dog out of the car , in its travelling cage , so that it can have fresh air . |
| 26 | Put simply this means that it must have some means of accepting information from the user , normally a keyboard , and giving results back , traditionally a screen of some kind . |
| 27 | So whatever verb is chosen will determine what functional predicate/argument structure is created — for HIT , it will be HIT ( AGENT , GOAL , INSTRUMENT ) because part of the lexical specification for the verb HIT is that it must have three arguments and they must be AGENT , ACTED-UPON , INSTRUMENT . |
| 28 | Clearly US$0.5m is unmatched — the bank has an obligation to sell US$0.5m more than it will have available . |
| 29 | Something may be green , or fat , or it may be running , and it may have all these properties or none without ceasing to exist . |
| 30 | Boston-based Ares Software Corp is hoping to licence its FontChameleon technology to operating system designers , application developers and printer manufacturers , and it may have some success since FontChameleon is supposedly compatible with existing PostScript and TrueType standards . |