Example sentences of "we may have the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 When those goals are respected , we may have the opportunity to spend increasing amounts .
2 The garrison finally capitulated at 4 pm , enabling the Duke to write complacently : ‘ Now we may have the happiness to say that this part of the kingdom is clear of all the rebels . ’
3 Generally , though we may have the background threat of Gomez 's South American violence or past humiliation ( Maisie Mountjoy brings back the music hall again ) , the late plays are too conventional to take us again immediately from London to Kinkanja .
4 We may have the world 's most boring aliens , but we do have corn circles , something no one else has got .
5 If we take Sheldrake 's ideas about morphogenetic fields seriously , we may have the suggestion of a hidden energy field actually underlying the formation of the landscape itself , giving it both form and character .
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