Example sentences of "it [modal v] have a " in BNC.

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1 It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices .
2 It may have a dysfunctional effect on staff motivation if figures for capitation ‘ appear from on high ’ rather than from a more open assessment of needs and available resources .
3 It may have a wider application with the advent of ‘ pen ’ syringes now available utilising cartridges for short-acting insulin .
4 It may have a seed growing within it , or be empty .
5 First , it may be scattered and diffused among a variety of objects of devotion , as in polytheism ; or it may have a single focus , as in monotheism .
6 The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero .
7 An attractor that has a positive maximal Lyapunov exponent , and so has a high sensitivity to initial conditions , often has a very complicated structure , in that it may have a noninteger , fractal dimension , and have some of the properties of a Cantor set .
8 On average , only 15 mites were found per thousand ants , but the researchers say that the mite 's habit of moving from one host worker to another , possibly because it quickly exhausts each host , means that it may have a greater impact on the colony than its apparent rarity first suggests .
9 Backwards and forwards the engine passes , increasing its load at each operation , until behind its tender it may have a string of vehicles more than two hundred yards in length with a brake van in the rear .
10 There are 5–8 pointed arm spines ; the second ventralmost spine and some of those dorsal to it may have a small distally directed terminal hook .
11 Now , if , if a child sends a distress call to a certain level of intensity , it may get a certain amount back , but it may have a sibling who sends the distress call a slightly higher level of intensity and might get some more back .
12 Surprisingly enough , it may have a great deal to do with conveyancing .
13 [ its ] own mores , which govern the relations of its members to each other , and it may have a high degree of morale , developed in fighting other gangs or defying the law' .
14 It may have a duty to inform the public about the misconduct of a candidate for election , but only in newspapers which circulate in the candidate 's constituency .
15 There are very few things take place in the world in which Fiji has a direct interest , it may have a general interest in the way things are going but it , direct interests it , it 's quite limited .
16 Merchandise as a premium does not have the universal appeal of money , but it may have a more pointed appeal than cash or a price reduction .
17 And t and th then , since the paper talk , that 's right , it 's nothing to do with it , but it may have a bit to do with justice , we 'll get round to it in a bit .
18 The Government argues that its bill enshrines Channel 4 as part of the system of public service broadcasting and that therefore it should have a final say in the appointment of who runs it .
19 It should have a readily removable cover which fits closely without being airtight , and should be protected against frost by insulating material .
20 It should have a clean , aesthetic line to it .
21 Sir Frank will rule on the call for an adjournment next month , by which time the NII promises that it should have a new batch of reports out .
22 If the flat only has one entrance/exit ( which it will because it is not on the ground floor ) , it should have a fire escape , or some means of escape over a balcony or roof .
23 The House is really concerned to decide whether it should have a Bill of this type on this matter .
24 ‘ Surely with a death involved , it should have a charge of reckless driving been heard by a judge . ’
25 it should have a measure of substance ; and
26 It should have a hole at one end , in which the handle of the bouquet can rest to keep the flowers away from the sides of the box .
27 Similarly , the BBC felt that it should have a stake in the ( abortive ) satellite plans of the early 1980s .
28 At the same time , however , it should have a weighty feel and there should be a plumpness to the leather .
29 In Equation ( 2.3.2.1 ) the only restriction placed on B was that it should have a known or easily-found reciprocal .
30 Well t I mean to the extent that that is happening , that there is a development of trade on the sort of , you know , with the periphery of the empire and with erm areas outside the empire , and that was certainly happening in this period , I do n't see why it should have a significant impact on the peasant population because there is n't really any evidence that it 's , in a sense , trickling down and enriching the peasantry .
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