Example sentences of "it may [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In this case it may lend to the discount houses ; then the Bank 's balance sheet will show an increase in advances ( an asset ) and in bankers ' deposits ( a liability ) . |
| 2 | It may evaporate into the air , or , after passing through the sewage plant , will enter rivers and seas via sewage outflow pipes . |
| 3 | This can be a costly solution because it may result in the involvement of staff who must forgo their needed rest period or the employment of nurses from an inappropriate grade . |
| 4 | At its most extreme , it may result in the court rewriting the terms of a lease in order to do what is fair and reasonable between the parties in circumstances which they did not foresee at the date of the lease ( Pole Properties Ltd v Feinberg ( 1981 ) 259 EG 417 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 7 | It may progress to the throat , larynx and down onto the chest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The reason for this is not clear but it may relate to the more recent stress associated with handling and anaesthesia for irradiation . |
| 10 | The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations . |
| 11 | Equally it may depend on the social factors that may have determined the decoration used ; the earlier brooches may be designed to satisfy a society in which there is less variation in social identity than later . |
| 12 | It may depend on the philosophy of management in the company or on the personality of the chief executive . ’ |
| 13 | When the solicited animal joins in the harassment , it may end with the enlister going off with the female and leaving the other two to fight it out . |
| 14 | The remit of the training scheme and those responsible for it may end at the transition point to operational activity or may continue in those periods of work regarded as a continuation of training and supervised as such . |
| 15 | Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour . |
| 16 | InsP 3 does not appear to play any part in the maturation of invertebrate and amphibian eggs , but it may contribute to the spontaneous maturation of bovine oocytes . |
| 17 | It may start with the first glimpse she gets of the man she is destined to love , or the man she believes wrongly that she is destined to love . |
| 18 | A State may not claim reimbursement of taxes and costs of any nature for executing a Letter , but it may recover from the requesting State any fees paid to experts and interpreters , as well as the cost of any special procedure requested under Article 9 . |
| 19 | It emerges from the above discussion that man-machine allocation of function is at best an oversimplification and it may lead to the neglect of some key features of human performance . |
| 20 | It may lead to the complete disappearance of a consonant , as in castle or a partial transformation as in irresistible , originally in-resistible . |
| 21 | Because of its foundation-plus-option course structure , it is difficult to place the Open University in the diagram , but it may tend towards the academic and general at least at the undergraduate level . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It may clash with the international North West ‘ 200 ’ road race . |
| 24 | While this is not a particularly scientific definition , it is perfectly adequate , and the term ‘ bomb ’ is in common use in vulcanology , although this is perhaps unfortunate since it may suggest to the reader some unpleasant kind of projectile which explodes on impact . |
| 25 | FAMILY SIZE — Though , in other contexts , it may refer to the size of the family ( i.e. the number of family members ) , in connection with fertility studies it usually denotes the number of live births to a woman ( sometimes only those children who are alive at a given time , e.g. at the time of the observation ) . |
| 26 | That may still be prudent if your fish are in the top-quality bracket , but otherwise it may pay in the long run to be looking at 12″ Koi upwards . |
| 27 | For example , it may appear at the beginning of a statement ( You know , it 's time we talked ) , but it is distinctly unusual at the beginning of a question ( You know , is it 6 o clock ? ) or a command ( * You know , shut the door ) , or an exclamatory or minor sentence ( one does not say , after banging one 's thumb with a hammer , * You know , damn ! ) . |
| 28 | Prompt antibiotic treatment , aggressive resuscitation , and debridement of the surgical wound , no matter how clean it may appear on the surface , is essential for successful management . |
| 29 | It may amount to the irrelevant truth , that propositional or abstract objects , which enter into the contents of many mental events , are not in space . |
| 30 | If , as seems likely , this line swings southwestwards at its western end towards the Farmborough Compression Zone , it may account for the otherwise puzzling discrepancy between the E.N.E.-W.S.W. strike of the basement thrust as seen on seismic ( Chadwick et a/. 1983 ) and the E.-W. trend of the Vale of Pewsey . |