Example sentences of "[conj] they [modal v] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Just as in his rotation of Party officials to areas with which they had no connection and where they would have difficulty building up a power-base , so now Ceauşescu was transferring people into new places of work , forcing them to move from their old homes .
2 She took him to her room where they could have privacy .
3 In the early days of the clearinghouses it was anticipated that they would have difficulty in persuading librarians to contribute their material .
4 Responding members of the ACCA , CIMA and CIPFA preferred the option of all members being called chartered accountants , whereas those from the three institutes of chartered accountants indicated that they would have difficulty with this proposition .
5 Although one can understand the Opposition having difficulty with their own Back Benchers , I never expected that they would have difficulty with members of their own Front Bench .
6 Iris and her group were absent , it having been agreed before they set off that they would have lunch in St-Jean-du-Gard and telephone for the mini-bus from the station at Anduze on their return .
7 They had even packed up further provisions in the picnic basket Brian had happened to bring , so that they would have sustenance to help them on their way : Taunton , Wellington , Tiverton .
8 It was not known whether they would be the most advanced protagonists of environmental scanning , but for various reasons it was expected that they would have views about scanning and about the extent to which they wished to undertake formal environmental analysis .
9 Castro described the action of his former communist allies as " repugnant " , saying that they would have blood on their hands in the event of US invasion .
10 They had grounds for thinking that they would have Anselm 's support , and despite Anselm 's strong words about insubordination in 1094 , they were not disappointed .
11 While badgers can ‘ snuzzle and take all the corn crops ’ and will sometimes take the odd lamb , they are not considered a threat to farming , though it has been suggesting that they might have links with tuberculosis in milking herds .
12 The words of the Johannine Jesus , ‘ I came that they may have life , and have it abundantly ’ , are in the end apt comment on this story .
13 Jesus said , ‘ I have come that they may have life and have it to the full ’ ( John 10:10 ) .
14 Christ attacked the hypocrites in two long and rhetorically structured sequences ( as recorded by Matthew ) , first in the Sermon on the Mount , denouncing their ostentatious alms-giving , praying , fasting , all actions done in public so ‘ that they may have glory of men ’ .
15 If you want to apply for a Mace Scholarship — and remember , Mace would be particularly delighted to consider applications from children , aged between 12 and 15 , who feel that they may have talent , determination and ambition in a particular sport but who may not , for one reason or another , have received coaching of any kind — then either collect an application from a Mace Foodstore during the month of May or write , ( with enclosed SAE ) , to :
16 Television advertising tells them that they must have designer trainers , designer clothes and good stereos .
17 When he insists that they must have names , she agrees to call him ‘ Someone ’ and allows him to call her ‘ Something ’ .
18 It was something he found hard to understand , though of course it must be accepted , this escape of children from the parental bonds so that they could have secrets from you and hiding places you could n't penetrate , that they were adults and possessed houses and cars which you had no hand in choosing or buying , that they could lock up those houses as they locked up their thoughts .
19 But in the 1950s the first wave of modern consumerism transformed people 's lifestyles so that they came to expect it to be right and natural that they should have consumer durables ( and increasingly non-durable goods ) .
20 It is compatible with the order-maintenance function of the police that they should have power to regulate both public processions and assemblies , and the 1986 Act refines their powers to do this .
21 Their strengths are that they will have drive and self-confidence , and the weaknesses , they 're intolerant towards vague ideas and people .
22 Building societies have already warned that they will have problems attracting savings because the Government 's National Savings bonds offer better returns .
23 They can not even be certain that they will have jobs in the future .
24 Observation of children reading aloud , however , shows that they can have problems in adjusting to the change from third-person narrative ( the author 's voice ) to quoted speech ( the character 's voice ) .
25 It is called benefit and and the well being of those kids about there , that we 're educating them at our own school , that they can have jobs and work , and if this is going , my fear is , okay we can live within this , s as you say , it may that it 's just bad settlement for one year .
26 ‘ The offices are used not just by us but also by several local voluntary organisations , and we are anxious that they can have access to them again as soon as possible , ’ Mr Alton said .
27 I FINALLY GET TO MEET Shaun William Ryder , with boss-eyed sidekick Bez in tow , not at his favourite haunt — ‘ I know there 'll be people there I do n't want to see , 'cause they 'll have drugs on 'em and that ’ — but in Manto , Manchester 's most popular gay bar .
28 Now usually in the exams they work it so you ca n't do that cos they give you a graph already drawn and they 'll have sort of erm two squares is equal to one unit along the bottom but only one square equals one unit
29 Yeah , put it there he 'll feed it , he 'll have it , hurry up , that 's it hurry up and eat it cos we 've got to go erm , and they 'll have sandwiches or something for tea and er if you point something they say no I do n't want it and then when the other one can I have it , oh you 're digging your finger in it
30 And they 'll have tanks for the sewage , which now drops straight down on to the tracks , of course . ’
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