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

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1 Bank staff are professional and while they may have products to meet most needs , they wo n't sell you something you do n't want .
2 Four season tents and mountain tents should have two way zips so that you can still get out when the bottom of the fly is covered in snow , and they may have storm flaps to help keep the weather out .
3 They will not lend any further sums unless they hold jewels as security , and more , unless they may have letters patent to give them the right to sell if they do not get repayment by the date appointed .
4 They may have problems , however , keeping skippers and crews in check .
5 First , they may have difficulty in obtaining the permission of their employers or colleagues to absent themselves from work while on council business .
6 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 ’ .
7 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 .
8 Jesus said , ‘ I have come that they may have life and have it to the full ’ ( John 10:10 ) .
9 They may have views on issues which derive from previous experience .
10 They may have fears and can not make relationships , but do not know why .
11 Yes , I think as adults one thing we have to do is actually trust the wisdom of our children to let us know , to give us the cues to when they need to talk or express their fears in some way erm I mean that 's our duty not to stop them talking , not to stop them asking questions , but to be aware of when they may have fears .
12 And many other people will choose to live in Harrogate even though they may have employment or L in Leeds or Selby District or Bradford District , and this will continue to happen .
13 They may have access to video outside the classroom in their own homes or perhaps there is some arrangement in the language school which allows them to use the video player when it is n't in use in the classroom .
14 They may have symptoms of vertebrobasilar insufficiency with vertigo or drop attacks and may have signs of myelopathy .
15 By signing the Convention and Protocol , Britain chose to receive refugees favourably and not return them to countries where they may have reason to fear persecution .
16 Physically and emotionally exhausted groups of people sit round the bed of the ill person feeling quite unable to leave even though they may have children at home or jobs to go to or a multitude of other functions .
17 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 :
18 Old textbooks should not be thrown away , since they may have material ( sources , illustrations , diagrams ) that at least can be used in a " cut and paste " session to produce new teaching material .
19 They may have occasions when they can be called into use for some particular issue , but on the whole there 's no real mechanism for contact between governors and parents .
20 Mixed exhibitions tend to have rather perfunctory introductions and catalogue entries ; the same is often true of exhibitions arranged by groups of artists , though they may have statements of aim or even an artists ' manifesto .
21 Of course , it was a tightrope walk ; they must have profiles of her from her school and Mars-U .
22 Cos if you put survey instead of census at the bottom , I mean I know that 's not strictly speaking how it should be , but they must have signs for us to survey because they have their own , presumably they have their own surveyors go out and
23 Well I heard , I , I wondered about that , and erm I think they must have contact because erm one of them who came back bearing in mind there must be a , a , a , about a three month gap , had had a proposal from one of the persons
24 Feed on any live foods ( they will eat tiny fish ) and they must have vegetable matter , so include scalded lettuce , spinach and herbivore flake .
25 To succeed , they must have evidence of some change from the white side .
26 And in determining what is suitable they must have regard to the matters referred to in the last three lines of the substituted subsection .
27 They must have quality given to them because their varying dimensions can add so much to the design .
28 First they must have confidence that it will work : that it can produce the kinds of things which they want to buy .
29 Television advertising tells them that they must have designer trainers , designer clothes and good stereos .
30 Pediculus humanus corporis , the body louse , and Pediculus humanus capitis , the head louse , share with Phthirus pubis three pairs of legs , a predilection for man or the higher apes , and a dependence on fresh blood , to which they must have access at least twice a day .
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