Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may snap off from the arm |
| 2 | Also , if the material is soft it may buckle easily at the inner side of the bend and vitiate the result . |
| 3 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 4 | Like its counterpart in the handling of speech , this is common , but it may present more in the way of reading problems . |
| 5 | ‘ If a husband or wife wants a family deep down , then it may eat away at the relationship and they may blame their partner for not allowing them to fulfil their needs . ’ |
| 6 | If as a couple you own your home jointly , it may pass automatically to the survivor , but you should check the position with the solicitor who did the conveyancing for you . |
| 7 | That way it may get out of the bat 's flight path before it enters the detection range . |
| 8 | Of course if such an appeal is in effect a way of jettisoning the unexplained clause and opening the door to an explanation in terms of some other theory — say , a theory of relations — then it may turn out in the end to have been a step forward , but no credit can be claimed for the step until a reasonably clear , comprehensive , and persuasive account of the alternative theory has been presented . |
| 9 | On scenting an alarm pheromone , an ant may do any of a variety of things : it may run away from the source of the scent ; it may freeze and ‘ play dead ’ , or it may run towards the source of the scent and attack any nearby enemies . |
| 10 | It may occur anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract but is predominantly located in the gastro-oesophageal junction and in the stomach along the lesser curvature . |
| 11 | When complete , it should fit snugly into the entrance hole in the side of the box . |
| 12 | So that when the British Medical Association decided in the late 1950s to inaugurate a programme of discussions among its membership on an appointed ‘ Subject of the Year ’ , it was entirely fitting that for its first discussion-point it should home in on The Adolescent : |
| 13 | If a Labour government ca n't get the devaluation it wants , it should pull out of the ERM . |
| 14 | The debate on the Bill to bring back whipping was a thoroughly undignified affair in which the principles of the matter seemed to count less than considerations such as the size and weight of the flogging instrument to be used : calculations made necessary no less by the desire to limit the discretion of ‘ judges infected by maudlin sentimentality ’ , than by the requirement that it should measure up to the brutes who were ‘ so degraded , that they could only be deterred by forcible appeals to their fear of physical pain ’ . |
| 15 | Obviously , the content of a shot has a bearing on its length ; ideally , it should end just at the moment when the viewer has absorbed all the information in the scene , and is beginning to wonder what happens next ? |
| 16 | As a basic point , you should enquire whether the scheme is contracted in or out of SERPS and whether the intention is that it should remain so in the future . |
| 17 | It should be receptive to pressures for changes in its structure to take account of what oppressed groups say — for instance , it should move away from the very formalized committee structure towards a participative workshop-type framework . |
| 18 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 19 | If it has less incidence of such needs , does it not follow that it should score highly in the narrow spectrum of examination results for the most able pupils ? |
| 20 | We therefore feel it is absolutely vital that if there is to be a new settlement , it should come forward through the structure plan . |
| 21 | But a spokesman for the firm which organised the poster campaign said it should come down within the next five days . |
| 22 | Think again — T J Rodgers , president and chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor Corp told a Congressional committee on Wednesday last week that there is no monolithic support for Clinton 's budget proposals — the government should not try to build information networks , but ‘ untangle the morass of bureaucracy and regulations ’ that prevent existing fibre optic networks from reaching homes , he said ; he called for deeper cuts in the budget deficit and the end of ‘ wasteful and unnecessary ’ government programmes ; ‘ Washington should stay away from the intricacies of high-tech competition … it should focus instead on the infrastructure of competition , ’ he said ; he also presented written comments criticising the Clinton plan from officials or directors of Amdahl Corp , Cisco Systems Inc , Conner Peripherals Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc . |
| 23 | When a recording is ‘ live ’ , as this one is , it should say so on the cover , and if that 's too difficult or exhausting there should be mention of it at the beginning of the booklet . |
| 24 | Gripping and polished — it should clean up at the box office this autumn . |
| 25 | It should prove so for the first killer as well . |
| 26 | ‘ Those who argue that maybe we should just once more try to delay it must face up to the responsibility that they may , by their good intentions , create much more suffering than anything we have seen so far . |
| 27 | The only serious objection to it is that it must suffer badly from the cold and , in its country of origin at least , it must spend the whole of the winter either indoors or in a man-made coat . |
| 28 | It must reach up beyond the walls of that particular yard within which a child is brought up . |
| 29 | If a meme is to dominate the attention of a human brain , it must do so at the expense of ‘ rival ’ memes . |
| 30 | In a constantly shifting scene it must go down as the most important symbolic change imaginable . |