Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] have an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ WEU could establish a link between a Europe in the process of unification and an Atlantic Alliance in the process of transformation and thus provide the vehicle for a stronger Europe to contribute more to joint security WEU must be at one and the same time the means of allowing Europe to make its voice heard in a Euro-American dialogue ’ — it must never be forgotten that Europe must always have an input into that dialogue — ’ of which the Atlantic Alliance is the institutional framework and the instrument for making the most of the European contribution to the defence of the West This contribution of Europe is the more essential in that the American military presence on the continent of Europe , reduced since the war in the Gulf , will remain below what it was in the past Defence policy should continue to be made in the organisations which assure collective defence , NATO , and WEU . |
| 2 | Whatever the nature of the immediate problem , the professional must always have an eye to helping parents generalise the skills they have learned . |
| 3 | The RNLI must always have an eye to the future , anticipating the needs of sea rescue many years ahead . |
| 4 | Teachers should therefore have an understanding of the complex relationship of language and national identity , the role of English and other British languages in the formation and maintenance of the nation-state and its attitudes to other languages . |
| 5 | Although the buyer can not complain under section 15(2) ( c ) of defects which he could reasonably have discovered on an examination of the sample , he may nevertheless have an action under section 14(2) or ( 3 ) above . |
| 6 | Taking a simple example , you might suddenly have an intimation that it is time to change direction and find a new job . |
| 7 | I 'll phone Anne , she thought suddenly , tell her what 's going on ; the sound of her voice will make me feel better — she might even have an idea . |
| 8 | Therefore , though the high density of Mercury suggested it might well have an iron core , Mercury was known to spin slowly and its large surface area to mass ratio indicated that its interior was cool enough for most or all of any core to be solid , and thus no detectable dipole field was expected . |
| 9 | We 'll definitely have an addition in there . |
| 10 | However , given the long lead-times in manufacture and construction , it was recognised that the standardisation could only have an effect in the forward programmes for 1950 onwards . |
| 11 | When the British Electricity Authority and its divisions took over responsibility for generation design in April 1948 , the engineers from the CEB , particularly Hacking , and Pask , his chief engineer , looked forward to strengthening the role of the centre in the design function , but that too could only have an impact in the longer run . |
| 12 | In the west , a woman could only have an abortion if this were approved by a doctor on medical , genetic or psychological grounds . |
| 13 | The earlier decomposition could reveal activities within the procedure that are amenable to monitoring ( such as adherence to bin-card re-ordering procedures ) , which could obviously have an effect on the success of the procedure as a whole . |
| 14 | because I used to have when I used to go around these for breakfast I 'd always have an orange juice and my cereal and then my fried breakfast it 's the only time I 'd eat a fried breakfast . |
| 15 | Oh yes , er he could er he could still have an hour lunchtime , and er only be out of the office , say , an hour and three quarters . |
| 16 | Now , Freud was n't saying that every time you dream about an umbrella you 're , you 're dreaming some kind of sexual wish , erm , but what he 's saying is that umbrellas and other things that can erm become erect or open out often do represent but you could conceivably have an umbrella dream in which the umbrella , through your private associations , stood for something completely different , it 's quite , it 's quite possible . |
| 17 | ‘ I hope I have n't held you up for too long , ’ she apologised quickly , realising that he could well have an appointment , and that he was on the point of leaving . |
| 18 | Yes , we 've covered various subjects er more than once , er so much so that er I would be much obliged if you would er focus on a particular instance that I could then have an opportunity to recall . |
| 19 | The region in which a child is brought up may also have an effect on the propensity to demand HE although this effect will be confounded with many of the factors listed above ( see Rees , 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Economic activity of the mother may also have an effect on child survival . |
| 21 | The carbomer 934P may also have an effect , however , because it inhibits faecal protease activity and facilitates the formation of a viscous gel in vitro . |
| 22 | These improvements in diagnosis may also have an effect on the incidence of gall stone disease discharges , and thus could cause a false impression of increase in gall stone disease discharges ( Fig 5 ) . |
| 23 | Thus is seems that the amount of alcohol consumed may also have an effect on the severity of alcoholic pancreatitis in the total population , as well as in individual subjects . |
| 24 | Growing scepticism about the ecological wisdom of some modern farming practices , and a small but increasing demand for natural foods may also have an impact on future thinking about agricultural policy . |
| 25 | Arthur may also have an action in negligence under the employer 's personal duty of care . |
| 26 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 27 | He had even spoken — interminably — at the famous meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , held at Oxford in 1860 , when Huxley allegedly scored his victory over Bishop Wilberforce with the retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a man who used his privileged position to pronounce on matters he knew nothing about . |
| 28 | Huxley 's retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop — or words to that effect — has come to symbolize not merely the conflict between Darwinism and the Bible but the victory of science over religion . |
| 29 | I would rather have an RSPCA worker who retained the capacity to weep than one hardened to the darker necessities of the job . |
| 30 | ‘ But perhaps we shall soon have an answer to another question . ’ |