Example sentences of "may [adv] have the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Fruit juices contain natural sugars anyway , so added sugar may only have the effect of making your child expect oversweet drinks . |
| 2 | You may possibly have the chance of being marshal to a judge ; if so , of course jump at it . |
| 3 | You may also have the opportunity to attend a course . |
| 4 | As your career develops you may also have the opportunity to gain the Certificate in Supervisory Studies for Stewarding Management , and to work towards membership of Cookery and Food Associations . |
| 5 | In these circumstances those of us who have benefited from the excellence of Somerville and Oxford must surely do what we can to ensure that future generations may also have the opportunity to benefit from the privileged education that we enjoyed . |
| 6 | From the gully a pipe leads to an inspection chamber which may also have the soil stack connected to it . |
| 7 | We usually have some warning when one of these changes is about to happen and we may also have the worry about this change balanced by the excitement that a change in circumstances often brings . |
| 8 | Agents and their clients may also have the dilemma of deciding whether to accept any offers made prior to the auction . |
| 9 | It may also have the effect of precluding those members who can not find the time to attend a few workshops and may therefore strengthen management committees and their bureaux in the long run . |
| 10 | The concentration of development west of London along the M4 corridor may also have the effect of destabilising development within the region while , at a national level , it reinforces the dominance of the south east in the ‘ information economy ’ . |
| 11 | In one major respect it is different , though : her two pauses of 0.6 seconds ( lines 11 and 13 ) are interpreted as signals that other speakers may now have the floor . |
| 12 | You may now have the chance of finding a sexual experience that involves not only the taking and/or giving of pleasure but one that involves you in " sharing the experience of pleasure " in a meaningful way for both of you . |
| 13 | Careful build-up of specific links , starting with concentration on one or two connected facts and building up to a complex structure , could be provided by a program — such a program may even have the potential of becoming a generalized structure . |
| 14 | He may even have the town named after him . |
| 15 | The protector often has powers to prevent trustees from doing things and may even have the power to remove trustees . |
| 16 | Jackson may well have the spirit of punk to blame for the misunderstanding . |
| 17 | But for all that and all that there have been some interesting stirrings in the undergrowth which may well have the effect of concentrating the minds of the opposition party leaders . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The next example shows how the reported form may sometimes have the reporting clause embedded as a parenthesis , so that the whole sentence resembles , in word order , the structure of quoted speech , but with only commas for punctuation : |
| 20 | The English speaker may initially have the perception that some other nationalities come to more black and white decisions than themselves , on the same evidence , and are therefore more competent or more rash , according to the context . |
| 21 | The person , for example , who is nervous or diffident or who has , or might have , unhappy memories of school , may initially have the courage to join a pottery or dancing class . |
| 22 | You may yet have the opportunity to find some incontrovertible evidence that will crack the case . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I may never have the strength again . ’ |