Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] that [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It may mean that a neonatal intensive care unit , after careful reflection , rather than emotional appeals and ‘ shroud-waving ’ , may have to give way to a number of other services , relating , for example , to the mentally ill , all of which can be financed for the cost of one such unit , which , in combination , will facilitate a measure of improvement in the patients ' conditions and their integration into society . |
2 | But it may mean that an apparent loss of context-specificity might be found only after very protracted training indeed . |
3 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped child will be dependent on other people , including its parents , more than the average child . |
4 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped child will require special educational needs in order that its full potential be realised , extending to the teaching of social as well as academic skills . |
5 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped adult will not be able to engage in as productive a job as an adult with a higher level of intelligence . |
6 | If money is short while the patient is ill , there is great pressure on the carer and the family , and often it may mean that the patient is unable to receive the specialist rehabilitation treatment which is increasingly difficult to obtain under the National Health Service . |
7 | At one extreme , it may mean that the world will not contain an example of any single human being doing that thing ; at the other end , it may merely mean that if a group of human beings adopt a norm requiring that behaviour , the norm will often be broken , its observance will give rise to a good deal of anxiety , those who comply without anxiety to the norm will be unusual in other respects , and so forth . |
8 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
9 | It may mean that the legal title to the property is defective , and if this is so , certain remedial steps may be necessary , such as obtaining a defective title indemnity policy from an insurance company and a statutory declaration from the seller or the seller 's neighbours . |
10 | It may arise that the ultra vires transaction entered into by the company is one in which a director or some other person connected with the company has an interest . |
11 | Many of the likely readers will have expertise in one or more of the areas described here , and it may appear that a few interesting stories have been excluded . |
12 | It may appear that the dependence thesis entails the no difference thesis , but this is not the case . |
13 | When the future seems to be filled with storm clouds , it may appear that the Church has no other recourse but to batten down the hatches and attempt to ride the storm . |
14 | With Chernenko 's departure from the scene , it may appear that the immobilistes have lost their final defence . |
15 | Looking at the figures for manufacturing job loss alongside the figures for employment gain in the services , it may appear that the labour shed from manufacturing industries has been absorbed by the service industries . |
16 | At first sight it may appear that the general pattern of Soviet trade with the Third World , consisting of the export of capital goods and equipment in return for raw materials , could be applied successfully in Latin America . |
17 | It may appear that the UK bank has now given away $10 000 of its own money , the money really is held in the name of the UK bank . |
18 | At first sight , it may appear that the value of aggregate demand for a country should be the same as its national expenditure . |
19 | Before 1994 , the suggested date for introducing reforms , it may decide that the change is not worth the political and administrative pain . |
20 | As a last resort , if the union believes that its members are being unfairly treated , it may decide that an all-out strike for an indefinite period is necessary . |
21 | For example , in languages with non-semantic gender it may happen that the syntactic gender of a noun is different from the natural gender of the object it refers to . |
22 | It may happen that the optimal tableau of LPk for some k has for all in a row i containing a structural variable x r and is not integral . |
23 | It may happen that the child is so naughty that it ends up never being rewarded for the desirable behaviour . |
24 | It may happen that the indifference curve is tangent to the c 1 c 2 frontier at G ( the golden rule ) , but in general we would expect to find a situation such as P in Fig. 8–3 where ( as drawn ) . |
25 | After a while , it may emerge that the man 's experience and the woman 's experience of that closeness are somehow very different . |
26 | But in a few cases it may emerge that the very question was considered by Parliament in passing the legislation . |
27 | Where the court refuses to make an order on an ex parte application it may direct that the application be made inter partes . |
28 | But it may imply that the kind of Protestant spirituality , for which the term puritan is commonly used , was not the only catalyst for the expansion of science . |
29 | If he does , it may signify that the cheek has become sore and the teeth need attention . |
30 | However , it may transpire that the most important factors are information concentration rather than sheer size , and the degree to which a dictionary is up-to-date and covers contemporary material ( this after all is the type of material a text recognition system would typically have to handle ) . |