Example sentences of "it may [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenpeace has warned that it may demand a legal review . |
| 2 | It may lend a certain dignity to the whole transaction but is notoriously slow . |
| 3 | If , for example , the Gnat 's Water Brewery , which operates three inns in a small country village , wishes to close and sell off one of these inns so as to improve the profitability of its remaining inns , it may insert a restrictive covenant into the conditions of sale of the inn in question , whereby the purchaser of the inn covenants not to use the premises as licensed premises . |
| 4 | If the Earth is indeed a living being , it was argued , then It may possess a subtle body corresponding to the human aura , with chakras and flows of energy as well . |
| 5 | It may stir a few ghosts . ’ |
| 6 | This may simply mean a better understanding of historical sites , including those abroad in this age of mass foreign travel ; it may lead to active participation of an archaeological nature ; it may mean a better guide by which to judge or understand the paperback or so-called " historical novel " or the historical play on television . |
| 7 | It may show a significant improvement in which case you can conclude the child is learning . |
| 8 | Despite the encouraging signs mentioned earlier , there is a danger that it may meet a similar fate to all its worthy predecessors . |
| 9 | Evidence so far is that for providers , the care programme approach does not assist in clarifying the roles of different staff in different agencies , but it may offer a global package of mental health care , comprising both social and health care services . |
| 10 | As yet there is little agreement on haemostatic and platelet factors in such patients but it may offer a further method of risk stratification in the future . |
| 11 | On the other hand it may represent a genuine attempt by specialists in related subjects to sit down together and plan a programme which allows for separate activities but suggests common themes and provides examples of integrated lessons as in the Nigerian Cultural and Creative Art syllabus . |
| 12 | The observation that the vascular isoform is expressed in all smooth muscle cells suggests that it may represent a constitutive type of splicing pathway which has similarities to the default pattern shown by other muscle genes . |
| 13 | It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif . |
| 14 | Before we come to that ; however , it may give a better picture of the dynamics and movement of theology itself if we approach it more chronologically , and deal in turn with the two main impulses stemming from Germany and Switzerland which largely set the tone in the period from 1920 to 1960 — those associated above all with Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann — with trends outside Germany in that same period , and then with the movements which have received the widest attention in the last twenty years or so . |
| 15 | Soil mixtures provide the means for some types of adhesion : an inorganic soil may form a matrix with another or it may form a discreet layer to which another soil might adhere if it can not adhere to the base substrate . |
| 16 | It may serve a useful purpose for a universalized anthropological social psychology , but it will lack the necessary focus to be a key theoretical notion in a particular , historical social psychology . |
| 17 | The word may certainly be translated so , and it may suggest a final note of resignation , the pathos of a dying fall . |
| 18 | Of course , this is open to interpretation : for example , it may suggest a limited awareness of care programming and the paying of lip-service to the idea , or it could be the result of thorough consideration of what care programming could offer existing services and the conclusion that it is solely a matter for health authorities ' concern . |
| 19 | and not the back of the photograph , otherwise you 'll get yourself in all sorts of difficulties and it may make a nice editorial , nice letters to the editor , but it would be very irritating to the editor , because they hate having mistakes pointed out to them , and that 's picture perspective . |
| 20 | The water is poured off and the base is dried when it may make a cracking noise — hence ‘ crack . ’ |
| 21 | If fleeing fails and the prey is cornered , it may make a last-ditch stand and turn on its tormentor . |
| 22 | The ratio may be simply expressed as a percentage or fraction of the firm 's profits or as " income points " ; it may involve preferential salaries ; it may vary as the firm 's profits fall within certain predetermined bands ; it may be subject to reduction if specified targets are missed ; it may contain a discretionary element to be awarded by way of performance bonuses . |
| 23 | A construction company says it may sue a local authority which is trying to prevent its demolishing a hotel . |
| 24 | Surprisingly enough , it may have a great deal to do with conveyancing . |
| 25 | It may have a dysfunctional effect on staff motivation if figures for capitation ‘ appear from on high ’ rather than from a more open assessment of needs and available resources . |
| 26 | There are very few things take place in the world in which Fiji has a direct interest , it may have a general interest in the way things are going but it , direct interests it , it 's quite limited . |
| 27 | It may have a wider application with the advent of ‘ pen ’ syringes now available utilising cartridges for short-acting insulin . |
| 28 | On average , only 15 mites were found per thousand ants , but the researchers say that the mite 's habit of moving from one host worker to another , possibly because it quickly exhausts each host , means that it may have a greater impact on the colony than its apparent rarity first suggests . |
| 29 | It may lack a certain flair , it may have a garish badge , it may still be cheap and cheerful inside ( there are now some very attractive leather-look plastics about ) but it is proving to be a reliable , easy-to-drive family car with lots of equipment as standard and rock bottom prices . |
| 30 | [ its ] own mores , which govern the relations of its members to each other , and it may have a high degree of morale , developed in fighting other gangs or defying the law' . |