Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may snap off from the arm |
| 2 | Well it may , it may stand out like a sore thumb , yeah . |
| 3 | Also , if the material is soft it may buckle easily at the inner side of the bend and vitiate the result . |
| 4 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 5 | If it is injured or sick it may sit quietly in an unusually visible position during daylight hours . |
| 6 | It may stop after one or two drinks or it may go on into a spree . |
| 7 | If the matter is not resolved by the small claims procedure it may go forward to a full hearing before a County Court judge in the normal way . |
| 8 | Otherwise , if the wind is squally it may end up with the wrong wing down in a fierce cross wind . |
| 9 | Where the County Court grants a new lease to the tenant it may do so for a period not exceeding 14 years . |
| 10 | Like its counterpart in the handling of speech , this is common , but it may present more in the way of reading problems . |
| 11 | It may serve today as a living protest against the cheapening , the misunderstanding , the betrayal of education which programmes of expansion and popular education policies can so easily conceal . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The unity of the discipline is to some extent an external facade , a matter of appearance ; from the inside , it may appear rather as a constellation of specialisms , more or less closely related . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now it may differ slightly by a penny from the computer quote anyway , so I always say , if that was me , it 's going to cost you , what was it , thirt , what did it work it out , |
| 16 | In fact , it may take up to a week before your bank actually receives the money . |
| 17 | That way it may get out of the bat 's flight path before it enters the detection range . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When complete , it should fit snugly into the entrance hole in the side of the box . |
| 22 | 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 : |
| 23 | If a Labour government ca n't get the devaluation it wants , it should pull out of the ERM . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If you do end it should go down to the end . |
| 29 | It should go out of a window |
| 30 | 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 ? |