Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Burmese government has warned that it may place a ban on all exports of logs to Thailand , in the face of reports that some traders are exporting logs illegally . |
| 2 | For a monolingual speaker , it may mean a shift of style within what is perceived to be the same language . |
| 3 | It may involve a rejection of the idea of evolution altogether . |
| 4 | A fall in the interest rate on bonds , for example , will lead to an individual rearranging his wealth portfolio , but this will not necessarily involve a shift from bonds to money ( as in the Keynesian case ) ; it may involve a shift from bonds to some other financial asset or into property . |
| 5 | CAD gains dramatically when components have to be redrawn many times , when it may out-perform a human by 100 : 1 . |
| 6 | Within any one place , it may offer a host of different living spaces , especially within the roots , bark , branches , leaves , buds , and flowers of trees , of different species and at different heights . |
| 7 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 8 | Alternatively , it may represent a subgroup of people with a genetically different cholesterol metabolism , which under particular dietary or environmental circumstances — for example a high fat , low fibre diet — would indirectly promote colon carcinogenesis . |
| 9 | It may give a method for allocating resources in a situation like that described , but it is quite unclear how it could be used to allocate resources in general . |
| 10 | Carbon dioxide is consequently abundant in the atmosphere of soils , especially those characterized by high rates of organic activity ; it may reach a concentration of 10 per cent ( in comparison with 0.035 per cent in the free atmosphere ) . |
| 11 | The rash may take one of several forms — it may mimic a host of rare and not so rare skin conditions . |
| 12 | It may package a number of these restraints as a business format franchise , and charge a fee or a royalty , or some combination . |
| 13 | It may demonstrate a sense of outrage toward the criminal and the enjoyment of seeing the wrongdoer punished and justice being done , given that in the majority of crime stories and programmes the criminals come off worse . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | that it may entail a level of expertise that makes lay scrutiny difficult ; |
| 16 | It may impose a fine of up to £2000 ( unless the Statute creating the offence provides otherwise ) and a maximum term of six months ' imprisonment on any one charge ( and a maximum of twelve months where the person is charged with more than one offence triable ‘ either way ’ , e.g. theft ) . |
| 17 | It may accept a submission with or without qualification , or it may recommend that it should be not proceeded with in the current session . |
| 18 | It may take a couple of minutes , since one arm is temporarily out of order . |
| 19 | It may take a bit of imagination for , for some of the , some of you but what do you think ? |
| 20 | It may take a while before the clients cotton on to what is happening . |
| 21 | It may take a stake in the venture . |
| 22 | The increasing emphasis on capital projects within an annual budgetary cycle creates problems in that it may take a number of years to acquire and to develop urban sites . |
| 23 | ‘ It may interest a collector of stories to frighten children , ’ said Holmes . |
| 24 | If it is extremely fortunate , it may become a double-suckler by finding a female whose pup has just died and who is still producing milk . |
| 25 | When used to account for anthropological observation , it may become a series of mechanical and inflexible models . |
| 26 | ‘ It may look a mess in them stables but it 's all in here , ’ Stanley said , pointing to his brain . |
| 27 | And it may see a child as a foal , and may not find it as intimidating or threatening as a mature person . |
| 28 | It may see a woman as a bossy mare , and best to be avoided . |
| 29 | Neither of these situations is in itself damaging , except that it may produce a denial of the actual preferred functioning of the child . |
| 30 | However , it may provide a part of a general theory , which might relate the mode of fertilization , the kind of parental care , and the system of mating , to explain the several general types of reproductive system . |