Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may mean managing an estate worth several millions of pounds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Jolande wants me to be at the birth , so it may mean missing the Masters . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , it may pay to take a chance with SESAME ( nap 2.35 ) , who has been running creditably in top class events and could oblige at attractive odds . |
| 6 | If the food is not being passed , it may pay to examine a fish to make sure the gut is not congested . |
| 7 | Like the minor , circular designs of the latter , it may have possessed a number of concentric bands . |
| 8 | I am sure that British Rail has considered all the options and it may have asked the consultants to study alternatives . |
| 9 | But it may have to do a lot more than talk . |
| 10 | It may have saved a lot of time . ’ |
| 11 | It may have made a decision which it had no power to make . |
| 12 | He says that it was a bit unfair — it may have made a difference . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If some acknowledgement of due service is required , it may have to retrace the path of the original documents . |
| 18 | It may have started a bit playfully but I thought it got out of hand . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It may have swamped the Aegean isles and the coastal lowlands of Greece and Turkey . |
| 21 | Well we do n't have a definite answer erm Gill but we think it may have experienced a shock of some sort during that season and of course when this happens to fruit trees they can go into bi-annual cropping and then they come back again , it may be that this horse chestnut 's experienced something very similar . |
| 22 | So in the past , when we were not shielded from moonlight , it may have had an effect . |
| 23 | ‘ Grenville 's manor belonged to Edward Grenville of Wotton Underwood , and was worth £10 to him ; in 1606 it may have comprised a house and 89 acres . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It may have evoked a response in our personal nature , or have been in keeping with the mood of the moment . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | It may help to improve the control guidelines , but not without a commitment to improve training for those who have to implement them . |