Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 2 | It is accepted that this : may mean that sometimes an employee will get a bit less than he might have expected ; it may mean that sometimes an employer will have to pay a little more than he had expected . |
| 3 | In the future it may complement or even replace standard techniques such as phage typing . |
| 4 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 5 | It may look like just a muddy old pond , but as Sir David Attenborough explains to these schoolchildren , it 's teeming with life . |
| 6 | Conversely , it may transpire that apparently similar domains make radically different use of those constituent words and hence demonstrate extremely different collocational patterns . |
| 7 | It may seem that once stalling and premises costs have been accounted for , there is very little left about which to make decisions . |
| 8 | Feeding most species of marine fish is not therefore as simple as it may seem and even if a fish feeds eagerly , it does n't necessarily mean that it 's eating the right food . |
| 9 | If a disease is caused by a mutation in a gene , it may be ‘ dominant ’ or ‘ recessive ’ — that is , it may occur when only one of the two copies is mutated in spite of the presence of a normal gene , or only when both are defective . |
| 10 | It will go and it should go but again if you 've not got |
| 11 | I think erm sexuality begins with sensuality and therefore it should begin in the home , and it should be exaggerated at school , I mean , it should helped but fundamentally it 's with your parents or guardians whoever , who should begin it . |
| 12 | It should transpire that twice a week those who cared could learn to cook ; but apparently Millie herself was to be given no choice ; she was sent , with another five girls , to the kitchen at three o'clock and , there , came under the influence of Sister Cecilia , to whom God had given a nice nature and a light pair of hands with pastry . |
| 13 | If it was going to happen , it must happen and then she would know what it was like to be kissed , which she did not know , now . |
| 14 | ‘ It might rain and then your hair would get wet . ’ |
| 15 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 16 | Firstly , it might argue that so much of what doctors do lacks solid scientific support that it would be ludicrous to try to insist that all doctors practise scientifically valid medicine all the time . |
| 17 | It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed … |
| 18 | Instead of having the machine score the various positions that could be reached after one play , it could generate and then evaluate all the positions possible after a play and a reply , or a play , a reply and a counter-reply . |
| 19 | ( Not his own imprisonment , of course ; society could not tolerate the imprisonment of Lord Lane , but it could tolerate and indeed is baying for , the imprisonment of those whose private behaviour offends Lord Lane 's principles . ) |
| 20 | It could do because obviously there are a number of other considerations , not least affordability er within the defence programme which erm from my point of view is a very important consideration . |
| 21 | As a sociologist , what he is interested in is the knowledge of a social group and as a Marxist he is interested in the ‘ maximum potential consciousness ’ of a group or class — what it could know and still remain a coherent group . |
| 22 | The garbage disposal , say , would drown things , but then it would stop and there I was , a living wiretap . |
| 23 | Provided that Ali 's analysis of Hacihasanzade 's motives is correct-and one must remember that Ali is writing nearly a century after the event it would appear that already at the beginning of the sixteenth century the career of a kasabat kadi was regarded as a dead end . |
| 24 | Not only may some modern novelists display at least some of their methods , but it would appear that even the hardest of natural scientists fail to spell out all of the procedures which they follow in their research , indeed that they are sometimes unable to do so ( Mulkay 1979 ) . |
| 25 | It would appear that either the values had been substituted by the supplier ( without warning ) or the capacitors had been mistaken for components having an identical capacitance value but with a much reduced voltage rating . |
| 26 | Virtually all libraries did nominate someone as having responsibility for training ( only six libraries did not ) so at first sight it would appear that theoretically at least item ( 1 ) above has been largely fulfilled . |
| 27 | On the one hand it would appear that only the traditional problems are being brought in ( see above ) , on the other , the fact that 90 per cent . |
| 28 | As it stands and we must not forget that UNESCO tried something similar some time ago it would appear that purely political motives are making trade impossible . |
| 29 | If this reading of Ali is correct , it would seem that simply in terms of his daily allowance the kasabat kadi was better off financially at the beginning of his career than the new muderris ; but in any case , given the fees the kadi could expect to receive , he must have had a considerably greater income . |
| 30 | The hypothesis raises , however , one difficulty : if there was a shift towards the equator in both hemispheres , it would seem that either a climatic belt was squeezed out or one or more narrowed in latitudinal extent . |