Example sentences of "it [modal v] have [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , children who are doing badly tend to expect failure and criticism , since it may have little effect on them except to confirm their worst beliefs about themselves and reduce their efforts . |
| 2 | However , even if we are extremely successful in improving the quality of auditing , it may have little effect on the public 's perception of the profession . |
| 3 | Or it may have little or no practical effect . |
| 4 | The responsibility for housework is a unilateral one , and the failure to do it may have serious consequences . |
| 5 | The standard of NHS accommodation available to trained staff is variable , and even if you are happy to put up with this in the short term , in the longer term it may have adverse effects on your personal life or hopes of a future career . |
| 6 | Something may be green , or fat , or it may be running , and it may have all these properties or none without ceasing to exist . |
| 7 | In practice , this action is not likely to be taken very often because it may have undesirable disruptive effects on the financial system . |
| 8 | The problem , simply stated , is that for any rational expectations model one can always specify a non-rational expectations model which has exactly the same implications for a given set of data , even though it may have other implications which are quite different . |
| 9 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 10 | Meg Dods ( The Cook 's and Housewife 's Manual , I 826 ) instructs that if this is to be kept as a cold relish the white meat and the coral and spawn should be packed " in a regular manner , in layers , or alternate pieces , so that when sliced it may have that marbled appearance , that look of mosaic work which so commends the taste of the cook " . |
| 11 | And that it may have practical applications . |
| 12 | This will take place in five stages : — orientation interviews , to select the texts and to establish the communicative context ; — initial analysis of texts which will focus on linguistic features likely to indicate relations between disciplines ; — directed interviews with the participants which will allow them to comment on the details of the analysis ; — comparison of texts from different locations and situations to show if a pattern of features is merely peculiar to one writer or if it may have general social significance . |
| 13 | One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality . |
| 14 | It is not itself a specific condition with a simple ‘ guaranteed ’ treatment ; because it may have many causes , which can be quite difficult to pinpoint . |
| 15 | Used as an utterance in context it may have many meanings , which , although they are connected to this context-free sentence meaning , may be extremely varied . |
| 16 | It may have many branches leading to many other nerve cells . |
| 17 | However , it may have extra meaning for GPs operating the practice budget scheme if increased expenditure on drugs means that other items of expenditure , such as elective admission to hospital , are reduced . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It may have unlimited funds or it may have very tight ones ; most fall somewhere in between so you have to think creatively about raising the additional finance to do the job properly . |
| 20 | It may have sudden onset and progress rapidly . |
| 21 | Where Whisky Galore ( 1948 , Tight Little Island in US ) depicts a Scottish community determined to outwit officialdom and salvage the whisky from a shipwrecked boat , The Man in the White Suit ( 1951 ) treads into that tricky area for British filmmakers , industrial relations , to suggest that when workers and management come together , it may have more to do with their own selfish interests than those of the broader community . |
| 22 | The government may have only some of the of the authority it claims , it may have more authority over one person than over another . |
| 23 | ‘ I think it may have more to do with my age — but I do feel I have got four or five years more at the top level in the game and I would love to perform at the top level of the Premier League . |
| 24 | It may have rippling effects and result in more general kindness throughout society . |
| 25 | Furthermore , legislation frequently fails to achieve its objectives and it may have unintended consequences . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ It may have some connection with certain other matters we are investigating . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |