Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer may mean harsher timetabling , or it may mean reconsidering the school 's traditional use of its premises and their parts , but neither of these answers is impossible . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Jolande wants me to be at the birth , so it may mean missing the Masters . |
| 3 | From Ho Chi Minh , however , it was a matter on which apparently no opinion was ever recorded and it may serve to illustrate the dangers to which communism in Vietnam was exposed when decisions and even understanding were subject to foreign direction . |
| 4 | I am sure that British Rail has considered all the options and it may have asked the consultants to study alternatives . |
| 5 | IF THE Hongkong and Shanghai Bank goes ahead with a takeover of Midland Bank , it may have to replace the pair of bronze lions that grace the entrance to its headquarters with a more appropriate symbol — such as a couple of ducks . |
| 6 | A version of it may have heartened the Normans in 1066 ; and it is even possible that the earliest surviving version was composed in Normandy . |
| 7 | The controversy over Dow Corning 's role in introducing silicone breast implants increased in January when some US newspapers , including the Wall Street Journal , published summaries of internal documents and claimed that they suggest that it may have rushed the product through without adequate testing . |
| 8 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 9 | If some acknowledgement of due service is required , it may have to retrace the path of the original documents . |
| 10 | In many cases , the state of destination will either accept the classification of the state of origin , or waive any right it may have to reject the document under Article 4 , or simply serve the document as an act of goodwill even if the Convention is regarded as not strictly applicable . |
| 11 | It may have swamped the Aegean isles and the coastal lowlands of Greece and Turkey . |
| 12 | It may have taken the prospect of mortality to bring Dr Johnson 's faculties to order , but penury seems to have done the job nicely among the nation 's museum personnel . |
| 13 | The regional council says that unless it gets guarantees about the money it wants to spend on a railway service now facing privatisation , it may have to switch the money to its own plans to upgrade Glasgow public transport . |
| 14 | But , though it may have perfected the art of crisis management through long necessity , it will have to face some additional strains in the next few years . |
| 15 | NCube Inc , one of the small band of sturdy massively parallel processing pioneers , reckons that it may need to crash the entry price of its machines to popularise the concept , and last week announced the nCube 2E series , starting with just eight and going to 128 of the company 's proprietary processors , with an entry price of $30,000 . |
| 16 | CNAA and SCOTVEC have agreed in principle that , where an institution wishes to propose a package of linked courses leading to awards of SCOTVEC and CNAA , it may ask to have the package jointly validated by SCOTVEC and by CNAA ( in the case of a CNAA associated institution ) or by SCOTVEC and by itself ( in the case of a CNAA accredited institution ) . |
| 17 | It may help to improve the control guidelines , but not without a commitment to improve training for those who have to implement them . |
| 18 | It may help to improve the labour turnover figures by improving morale , though this is not certain . |
| 19 | It may help to refer the patient to other agencies ( e.g. social services , a psychosexual problems clinic , self-help groups ) . |
| 20 | If his head tends to drop forward towards his plate as he eats , it may help to put the plate on a raised block on the table to reduce the distance from plate to face . |
| 21 | I have made some tests , and it may help to give the results , though observers with keener eyes than mine will be able to do better . |
| 22 | PFK TIP : If in doubt about any toxic seepage from a material , it may help to filter the water heavily through charcoal before stocking any fish . |
| 23 | It may help to follow the process through the relevant NOSTRO accounts . |
| 24 | If , eventually , it becomes possible to increase productivity in this way , and such crop plants are developed on a large scale and for use in a wide variety of environments , it may help to reduce the impact of the enhanced greenhouse effect as well as increasing global food supplies . |
| 25 | So in general consumers should welcome new entrants to the credit market , not just because it widens their choice , but because it should tend to lower the cost of credit by sharpening competition . |
| 26 | It should aspire to reflect the processes of teaching , learning and schooling in order to educate judgements about the adequacy of educational provision and the quality of experience pupils have . |
| 27 | It should help to induct the student not only into the field of study but the approach to studying . |
| 28 | It should help dry the thing out . |
| 29 | Instead , it should recommend privatising the Tote — a state-owned hangover from the times before commercial betting was legal — and reforming the laws on gambling . |
| 30 | Graham Ward , the Price Waterhouse partner on the Prudential audit and vice-chairman of the Institute 's Auditing Committee , says : ‘ The more efficient a company 's accounting function might be , the less time it should take to do the audit . ’ |