Example sentences of "it may [vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The fear is that when Raytheon completes its overall review of the Corporate Jets business it may move the entire operation to the US . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Or it may represent the God-given confusion which represents the opportunity for maturity outside the safe confines of the Garden of Eden . |
| 6 | Thus it may perform the effective address calculation from the operand and addressing mode fields of the extracode , before entering the supervisor . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This alteration may be either excitatory or inhibitory : that is , it may make the receiving cell more or less likely to emit impulses itself . |
| 12 | By the process of displacement one idea may surrender to another the whole volume of its cathexis ; by that of condensation it may appropriate the whole cathexis of several other ideas . |
| 13 | There may arise circumstances in which a doctor may use a form of treatment for his patient 's benefit aware of the fact that it may have the secondary effect of accelerating ( or run the risk of accelerating ) the patient 's death . |
| 14 | And now it may have the same problem over here . |
| 15 | A series of bipartite agreements , each allocating a particular territory to a retailer would be treated entirely differently from a ( registrable ) multipartite agreement regarding exclusivity , though it may have the same effect . |
| 16 | However , it may take the German buyer say one month to decide to buy ; delivery may take a further month and a credit period of a further month may be agreed . |
| 17 | If K is large , then the algorithm will ’ jump to conclusions ’ quickly , but it may overshoot the optimum weights . |
| 18 | It may expand the common law duties of the director and add other responsibilities . |
| 19 | If such a flow exists it may assist the seaward movement of debris and hence contribute to the erosion of the coast . |
| 20 | However , it may interest the hon. Gentleman to know that , as part of the patients charter initiative , we will take steps to consider accident and emergency and casualty cover to improve standards of provision applying to Tayside and to all other health boards . |
| 21 | And it may endorse the British idea that the EC Court of Justice should have sanctions to enforce its judgments on reluctant countries ( one bit of supranationalism that Britain backs ) . |
| 22 | It may even be morally permissible to kill the child ; but the criminal law neither now nor in the future will countenance this , though it may look the other way from time to time . |
| 23 | It may produce the odd shower later in the afternoon with the heating but erm a fair part of the day will be dry . ’ |
| 24 | If the horse suddenly starts bucking when we ride it , and we jump off and swat it with a cane ; the horse will remember , but it may remember the wrong thing . |
| 25 | If the Panel is satisfied that certain information requested at a full Panel hearing is commercially confidential ( such that it would be damaging to reveal it to the other party ) then it may permit the first party to be heard alone . |
| 26 | In addition , intracerebroventricular injection of neuropeptide Y increases gastric acid and pancreatic secretion in dogs , and it has been suggested that it may mediate the cephalic phase secretory response to feeding . |