Example sentences of "[modal v] have [adv] serious [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others saw the action in a more defensive light : as Brezhnev explained at the 26th Party Congress in 1981 , the situation in Afghanistan posed a ‘ direct threat to the security of [ the Soviet ] southern frontier ’ , and it was certainly true that an unstable , possibly militant Islamic government in a state immediately adjoining the USSR 's southern borders might have quite serious implications for public order in the traditionally Muslim republics of Central Asia . |
| 2 | Such a development could have most serious consequences . |
| 3 | Studies by BGS have shown that increased concentrations of sulphate in pore waters beneath trees , though mostly of little consequence , can in some circumstances result in metals such as aluminium being leached into shallow groundwater , which could have potentially serious consequences where these waters are used for drinking . |
| 4 | This could have potentially serious consequences where these waters are used for drinking . |
| 5 | It could have very serious implications . ’ |
| 6 | Expert evidence was given to the effect that the chances of the child adjusting to a new life in Spain were very slim , and that failure to adjust would have very serious consequences on the child 's development . |
| 7 | If the Walled Garden and Garden Cottage were to be transferred to the ownership of Oatridge Agricultural because of the previous set out in the above piece of legislation this would have very serious consequences to the capital value of what can only be described as the department 's most valued property asset . |
| 8 | Even at the time that the White Paper was being issued in 1972 , it was becoming clear that the rapidly declining birth rate would have very serious repercussions for the colleges of education ; however , it was not until the decline began to steepen in the mid-1970s that the full implications were publicly announced by the DES . |
| 9 | This , as you know , sir , is a situation that bedevils many areas of the public service but lack of continuity in care for the young can have particularly serious results . |
| 10 | Leaks can have very serious consequences in terms of the damage they cause to your home — especially if they occur on the central heating system . |
| 11 | weird answers and erm I mean , it can have very serious consequences and you find you 're working on a little discontinuity . |