Example sentences of "it may [vb infin] [art] [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 | The fear is that when Raytheon has completed its overall review of the Corporate Jets business , it may move the entire operation to the US . |
7 | The fear is that when Raytheon completes its overall review of the Corporate Jets business it may move the entire operation to the US . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Where there is no element of convergent or divergent movement along a strike-slip fault it may generate no significant landforms . |
10 | Outings can be for just one or two residents to go somewhere they want to , or it may involve the whole staff and all the residents . |
11 | More important , selection over tens of generations can take traits well beyond their original values , and new mutations can contribute to the response , so that it may reflect the fundamental limits on the character , rather than just the initial covariances . |
12 | It may show a significant improvement in which case you can conclude the child is learning . |
13 | Despite the encouraging signs mentioned earlier , there is a danger that it may meet a similar fate to all its worthy predecessors . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It may represent a calcium-sensitive form of the enzyme as it contains one canonical EF-hand motif . |
19 | Or it may represent the God-given confusion which represents the opportunity for maturity outside the safe confines of the Garden of Eden . |
20 | Thus it may perform the effective address calculation from the operand and addressing mode fields of the extracode , before entering the supervisor . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The danger of this approach is that it may give the erroneous impression that companies are constantly embroiled in internecine strife , and that investors and creditors are habitually maltreated by dishonest or incompetent company controllers . |
23 | You do n't need guests , you do n't need freezing weather or any other excuse to put pudding on the menu — although it is true that a good pudding shared with like-minded Billy Bunters makes for a convivial party , and if the day dawns cold and frosty it may give an agreeable edge to appetites . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Put at its lowest , a single-minded and unrelenting pursuit of a policy , however right , however important , may be counter-productive in that it may alienate the very people whom it is sought to convert . |
26 | It may reach the sixth magnitude by December 10 and the fourth on about December 20 when it moves inside Mercury 's orbit and passes the star Zeta Ophiuchi . |
27 | It may reach the sixth magnitude by December 10 and the fourth on about December 20 when it moves inside Mercury 's orbit and passes the star Zeta Ophiuchi . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | The word may certainly be translated so , and it may suggest a final note of resignation , the pathos of a dying fall . |
30 | 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 . |