Example sentences of "[coord] [modal v] [adv] have a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We need therefore to consider policies which integrate older workers into society , either in terms of maintaining them in the workplace or facilitating options which develop new social roles which may or may not have a work element . |
| 2 | A housewife may be married or not , and she may or may not have a job outside the home . |
| 3 | Socrates may or may not have a gene or two alive in the world today , as G. C. Williams has remarked , but who cares ? |
| 4 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |
| 5 | A consequence of this unquestioning enthusiasm is that the implications of change have not been thought through , and may yet have a sting or two in the tail . |
| 6 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 7 | Instead of musical mats , children can ‘ walk the plank ’ and should not have a foot on it or be the last person to pass over when the music stops . |
| 8 | Businesses searching for financial assistance can be start-ups or already trading , and should normally have a business plan . |
| 9 | She appealed unashamedly to her English readers for money for the foreign artists : ‘ If anyone likes to send some money , I will promise to dispense it with the most rigid favouritism towards people who would probably sooner beg than risk the jaundice of a free meal and would sooner have a note of twenty francs all at once than beg every day . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Very often , at Ealing , the Director himself would think up ideas for films and would probably have a lot to do with the genesis of the scripts as well . ’ |
| 11 | He blamed Rose , and would n't have a word said against William . |
| 12 | He took it all for granted , and would never have a clue just how blessed he was . |
| 13 | They are funded by your council and will thus have a say in things . |
| 14 | ‘ You will have a trying day tomorrow ’ , he once said to his District Magistrate while Chief Commissioner of Delhi ; ‘ You will be on the alert all day and will probably have a riot . |
| 15 | The former will never have the ring of eternal truth and will always have a suspicion of temporary or symbolic truth about it . |
| 16 | This will be an important and helpful clarification of what has recently been a vexed issue , and will undoubtedly have a bearing on pre-school provision . |