Example sentences of "[modal v] have [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , agricultural equipment data should have unusually favourable characteristics that avoid some of the problems that some manufacturing investment data exhibit — most notably the conceptual and estimation problems that occur when there is a long lag between the placement of a new order and its subsequent delivery sometime in the future . |
| 2 | For , as already noted , any company holding a Stock Exchange quotation must have readily marketable shares . |
| 3 | I mean all this sitting on the fence I mean they must have very sore bums . |
| 4 | The idea was this : When the star becomes small , the matter particles get very near each other , and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle , they must have very different velocities . |
| 5 | ‘ You English people must have very big houses ’ ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | What he did not say was that the " future General " might have quite distinct ideas of her own on the subject . |
| 8 | Of course , you might have very large wrists because you are extremely overweight ; the measurement may indicate thickness of fat rather than bone size . |
| 9 | Such a development could have most serious consequences . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This could have potentially serious consequences where these waters are used for drinking . |
| 12 | At some locations , concentrations of these elements in drinking water exceed the national drinking water standards , while in some lakes high methyl mercury content in fish could have potentially adverse effects . |
| 13 | It could have very serious implications . ’ |
| 14 | use of inappropriate language could have very negative effects on the teacher 's standing with pupils . |
| 15 | And besides , if there was one thing the last two days had taught her , it was that even the most suspicious circumstances could have perfectly innocent explanations . |
| 16 | Some students entering it could have quite other claims and qualifications than A-level English . |
| 17 | These studies have indicated that people may have particularly vivid memories for personal events of particular emotional importance to them individually ( Christianson & E. F. Loftus , 1990 ; Conway & Bekerian , 1988 ; Pillemer , Goldsmith , Panter & White , 1988 ; Pillemer , Rhinehart & White , 1986 ; Rubin & Kozin , 1984 ; Strongman & Kemp , 1991 ; Wagenaar & Groeneweg , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | The latter are quite as real as the former , may have equally far-reaching results and can be just as limiting to the quality of life in the individual concerned . |
| 19 | At the level of the unchurched popular consciousness , particularly in the urban protestant working classes , liberty may have slightly different significances . |
| 20 | Although twice as high a proportion of tropical plants contain potentially toxic alkaloids compared with extra-tropical ones and , although these are often concentrated in the young tissues of plants , insects specializing on such tissues may have rather unsophisticated problems compared with those feeding on mature leaves , where so much ‘ secondary chemistry ’ is manifest . |
| 21 | The " old men " may have also left patches of unworked ground which could now readily be worked with explosives . |
| 22 | The EC Commission has proposed a directive on data protection , which may have extremely restrictive implications for fund-raising by art bodies . |
| 23 | Admittedly , some may have totally unrealistic expectations of the NHS 's power to keep them fit . |
| 24 | This makes the conclusion reached all the more impressive , and certainly forces one to take seriously the possibility that even low-level exposure to lead may have gravely deleterious effects on children 's behaviour and intelligence . |
| 25 | Poems are more plausibly referred to as works of art than novels ; the latter may have obviously aesthetic qualities , but have many other things in them as well . |
| 26 | Two people looking at exactly the same thing may have quite different perceptions depending on experience , background and interest . |
| 27 | Note that we can not eradicate the modifier " pragmatically given " in these definitions : an utterance of ( 71 ) may have quite different implications of precision if said to a crane operator in contrast to a fellow surgeon . |
| 28 | Fathers may have very strong views on what course of action their daughters should take . |
| 29 | Such decisions , for example , as where and when to build a new warehouse , whether to buy out competitors or whether to change product structure , may have very long-term consequences and involve huge investments of money . |
| 30 | Usually one who is a professional teacher is not ideal — he/she may have very set ideas on how to teach , which may not meet your needs , and he/she may teach you as if you were a child . |