Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission kept under review the human rights situation in Afghanistan , Romania , El Salvador and Iran but sent a clear signal that it may terminate special scrutiny of the latter two countries at its next session . |
| 2 | ( iii ) Defective registration It may be that the charges register fails to disclose accurately particulars of the charge ; for example , it may contain inaccurate particulars of the amount secured , or the property subject to the charge . |
| 3 | The Zambian government has banned the sale of unpasteurized milk direct from farmers to consumers because it may contain high concentrations of the pesticide dieldrin . |
| 4 | This would lead to confusion and complication ; ( 2 ) It may imperil certain aspects of the regulatory system , for instance by concluding that Chinese walls are ineffective to prevent the attribution of information , or because advance disclosure that would satisfy fiduciary requirements is impossible , a broker/dealer is always liable when buying or selling as principal ; ( 3 ) It does not appear to give any recognition to the expertise of the bodies to which Parliament has entrusted the regulation of financial services . |
| 5 | Although it may seem expensive cost of getting to Florida , it will be a highlight of your trip . |
| 6 | Ambitious video games company Sega Enterprises Ltd is not playing games : it says it should reach annual sales of $5,000m by 1997 at the latest : the company controls 55% of the European video-game market and its main competitor , Nintendo Co , has 45% , it said ; it also reckons it has 54% of the US market , although Nintendo is generally regarded as the market leader there ; in Japan , Sega has just 20% . |
| 7 | If the model is an accurate description of the way in which option prices are set and if the market is efficient , then it should produce good predictions of future option prices given the various parameters . |
| 8 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 9 | However , it could dictate public perceptions of the parties ' agenda . |
| 10 | It would maximise civilian tactics of resistance and defuse the natural potential for violence , containing and eventually eliminating the marginal but intrusive phenomenon of collaborator activation by Israeli security authorities and collaborator execution by local Palestinians . |
| 11 | The delay was partly due to a long and very public debate between PADA and ARROW , a group of residents from Woodchurch , the estate where heroin use was first discovered , who were unhappy about such a centre being opened near their homes , fearing it would attract various sorts of trouble . |
| 12 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |
| 13 | The RSC says that although the combination would create a very large body and might result in a ‘ loss of focus ’ on pollution control , it would avoid serious disruption of programmes and would provide integrated operations at the ‘ delivery end ’ of its service . |
| 14 | Even if everything that might go wrong does go wrong , it would require extra efforts of neglect , incompetence and ill fortune to fashion a depression even half as bad as that of the 1930s . |
| 15 | Movement to Italy of all Germans is not acceptable because it would cause serious blockage of our L of C … we are approaching 12 Army Gp immediately with request that they accept concentration … 3 . |
| 16 | Formally the United States still maintained the myth that it would convert official holdings of dollars into gold at the old price of $35 , while informing other central banks that if they attempted to take advantage of this offer at all it would instantly be withdrawn . |
| 17 | This development was part of a looming trade dispute , the Bush administration having announced on Aug. 21 that unless China removed barriers to the entry of US products into the Chinese market by Oct. 10 , it would impose punitive tariffs of up to 100 per cent of value on Chinese-made imports worth US$3,900 million [ see p. 39051 ; see also p. 38530 for opening in October 1991 of US investigations into China 's trade barriers under Section 301 of the 1988 Trade Act ] . |
| 18 | I immediately modified the program so that in future it would keep accessible records of genetic formulae , but it was too late " . |
| 19 | Norway declared in July 1992 that it would resume commercial hunting of minke whales , in defiance of a moratorium agreed by the International Whaling Council ( IWC ) in 1985 [ see ED 61 ] . |
| 20 | Holding a referendum had been one of the conditions demanded by the European Communities ( EC ) before it would consider diplomatic recognition of an independent Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see pp. 38703-04 ] . |
| 21 | This option was , however , never used without the agreement of the chairmen , and then only on those rare occasions when they felt it would help secure acceptance of unpopular measures by their colleagues and the broader public . |
| 22 | If total sales income is assumed to consist of costs of one- third for labour , one-third for raw materials , and one-third for overheads and profit , it would need national spending of about £60,000 million per year to absorb our current unemployed into jobs . |
| 23 | The USSR has announced that it will make increased use of gas as a petro-chemical feedstock rather than flood the market while demand is weak . |
| 24 | News from Whitbread that it will make extra provisions of £37m , alongside another £10m considered ‘ normal ’ , to cover bad debts on free-trade loans in the hard-hit south of England knocked 19½p off the already weakened shares to 358½p . |
| 25 | Using existing data sets , it will make initial estimates of the scale of any effect which low incomes might have on the health if the elderly in Britain , and go on to assess the likely role of some intervening variables which might account for the close correlation between income distribution and longevity in developed countries . |
| 26 | It will involve indepth studies of forty firms principally concerned with studying changes in payment systems and then link to other personnel practices . |
| 27 | It will compare different methods of recruitment , identify opportunities for involvement and stress the importance of a programme of social events . |
| 28 | Inevitably it will include strong elements of positive discrimination . |
| 29 | It will include other forms of civil proceedings : for example , an originating summons . |
| 30 | Apricot Computers Ltd , which always likes to be first with Intel 's latest chip , will reportedly announce a P5-based machine in September , but with the enormous leap in complexity in the microprocessor , the other major worry has to be that it will take early users of the chip at least 18 months to find all the bugs in it and for Intel to correct them . |