Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 3 | It may function as a store of wealth , so that an individual or society can put away the wealth it may generate as the surplus between production and consumption . |
| 4 | It may function as a store of wealth , so that an individual or society can put away the wealth it may generate as the surplus between production and consumption . |
| 5 | In context , it will function in a certain kind of perspective , depending on the purpose of communication ; for instance , it may function as a statement of a person 's state of health ( John has been taken ill ) , as an identification of the person affected ( John has been taken ill ) , or as an affirmation that the information conveyed is really valid ( John has been taken ill ) . |
| 6 | There is evidence from which it appears that the United Nations Organisation considers that there are persons whom it may treat as the representatives of the Republic of Somalia . |
| 7 | It may alter as a result of a variety of extraneous factors , in particular supply-side shocks , but Layard assumes that it is invariant with respect to the unemployment rate . |
| 8 | The traditional rituals of port drinking are well-known , but it may came as a surprise to many that it is not the crusty British lawyer savouring his even crustier port that constitutes the core market for port shippers , but the trendy young Frenchman , enjoying young ruby . |
| 9 | For some , it may serve as a reminder of the Kingsley Amis who once unambiguously remarked , in the course of a berating of Philip Roth , that ‘ Jewish jokes are not funny ’ . |
| 10 | In itself it is of no great importance , but it may serve as a pointer to the presence of other sexually transmitted infection . |
| 11 | The Komatsu robot was designed to help draw detailed maps of the ocean floor but it may serve as a prototype for mining and construction vehicles . |
| 12 | To most westerners it may appear as a mere decorative embellishment reflecting the ubiquitous presence of the Cobra all over India , or possessing some remote significance in terms of local superstition or religious belief . |
| 13 | It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel . |
| 14 | Or it may appear as an eroded large artery protruding into the lumen . |
| 15 | Robert Young suggests why the presupposition of a shared humanity can not provide such a starting point , although it may operate as a horizon of thought , a desirable if always unachievable aspiration . |
| 16 | Thus Moore 's methodology points inevitably to his main ethical conclusion , which is that nothing , or at least very little , is to any great degree good except for cases of personal affection and the enjoyment of beautiful objects and that everything in life which does not come under these heads has barely any value apart from whatever it may have as a means of promoting these great goods . |
| 17 | It may act as a decoy , its bright yellow flowers attracting the beetle away from your beans . |
| 18 | Its function is not known as yet , but the leaf may serve as mobile camouflage to protect the fish from the eight species of kingfisher which feed along this river or it may act as a ‘ stalking horse ’ as the fish pursues its prey . |
| 19 | It is able to recycle material which is now being expensively destroyed in incinerators or dumped into the sea , where it may act as a source of marine pollution . |
| 20 | It may come as no surprise that the Canadian Court turned to an analysis of the game of ice-hockey to address this issue . |
| 21 | It may come as a shock . |
| 22 | Real travellers will have discovered that most taxi drivers have only a cursory grasp of English so it may come as a surprise to learn that foreign cabbies ‘ drive at breakneck speed ’ while talking eloquently of ‘ local proverbs and giving handy hints about what to buy in the local market . ’ |
| 23 | It may come as a shock to most men , but pre-adolescent boys are more likely to have a higher orgasm rate than the mature members of their sex . |
| 24 | It may come as a surprise to realise that the press have a right to cover hearings , although they may not , in any way , identify the children who are the subject of those hearings . |
| 25 | ‘ It may come as a surprise to you , Marron , but that includes you . |
| 26 | It may come as a surprise to learn that in the last years of the twentieth century there is still a part of one of Europe 's most enlightened democracies where women can not vote . |
| 27 | It may come as a greater surprise to discover that much humbler , less social insects than bees can also show features of learning and memory . |
| 28 | ‘ We should not forget this and it should serve as a lesson , ’ he said in a speech to mark the 20th anniversary of Sino-Japanese diplomatic ties . |
| 29 | But it should serve as a warning to teachers that suggestions from the ‘ fundamental disciplines ’ must be viewed with caution and scepticism . |
| 30 | Mr Brandt , who was mayor of West Berlin 28 years ago when East Berlin put up the Wall and who stood next to Mr Kennedy during his famous speech , said the barbed wire and wall were ‘ against the flow of history ’ , but added that it should remain as an ‘ an historical monstrosity ’ . |