Example sentences of "it may have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There are 5–8 pointed arm spines ; the second ventralmost spine and some of those dorsal to it may have a small distally directed terminal hook .
2 Surprisingly enough , it may have a great deal to do with conveyancing .
3 It may have a dysfunctional effect on staff motivation if figures for capitation ‘ appear from on high ’ rather than from a more open assessment of needs and available resources .
4 There are very few things take place in the world in which Fiji has a direct interest , it may have a general interest in the way things are going but it , direct interests it , it 's quite limited .
5 An attractor that has a positive maximal Lyapunov exponent , and so has a high sensitivity to initial conditions , often has a very complicated structure , in that it may have a noninteger , fractal dimension , and have some of the properties of a Cantor set .
6 It may have a wider application with the advent of ‘ pen ’ syringes now available utilising cartridges for short-acting insulin .
7 On average , only 15 mites were found per thousand ants , but the researchers say that the mite 's habit of moving from one host worker to another , possibly because it quickly exhausts each host , means that it may have a greater impact on the colony than its apparent rarity first suggests .
8 It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices .
9 [ its ] own mores , which govern the relations of its members to each other , and it may have a high degree of morale , developed in fighting other gangs or defying the law' .
10 First , it may be scattered and diffused among a variety of objects of devotion , as in polytheism ; or it may have a single focus , as in monotheism .
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