Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |
| 2 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 3 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 4 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 5 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 6 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 7 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 8 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 9 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
| 10 | In a very important class of case , namely , actions upon cheques and other bills of exchange , the rule does not apply and we can see no reason why it should apply at all . |
| 11 | When there 's a school teacher down there , it should happen at all break times and meal times , erm er |
| 12 | ‘ Surely it should happen at random ? |
| 13 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree with my Hon. Friend that most of his suggestions will form part of the solution though I think that the House would be reluctant to depart from the view that it should rise at 2.30 on Fridays . |
| 14 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 15 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 16 | Her voice was stretched very tight , as though it might snap at any moment and tumble her into tears . |
| 17 | It might help at this point to ask the children a further question : " What might happen if the thief ( the rightful owner of the jewels/the alien in the above examples ) does or does not ( depending on the drama ) manage to steal the " keys " ? " |
| 18 | It might work at international level but at club level you need a hardworking manager with a good business head . |
| 19 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 20 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 21 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 22 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |
| 23 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 24 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |
| 25 | It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand ( being crucial to market growth ) and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability ( being the only thing preventing a phenomenal profits bonanza ) . |
| 26 | Maureen said that her mother seemed free of pain but he warned her it could return at any moment . |
| 27 | The United States , or to be more precise , US capital , was clearly gaining if it could borrow at 1½ per cent and invest in setting up or buying businesses in Europe , which would earn a much greater rate of profit . |
| 28 | Last night , Platt said : ‘ It could go at any time , walking across the training ground or even sitting down to lunch . |
| 29 | When there was no further hope , Saga contacted you and offered the best alternative it could find at short notice and , as that was not acceptable , refunded your money in line with their contractual obligations to you . |
| 30 | They were all agreed that the provision of family allowances would enhance the status of women not only as mothers but as workers because ‘ it would strike at one of the main popular objections to ‘ equal pay for equal work ’ , i.e. the plea that a man requires a family wage whereas a woman requires only an individual subsistence wage ’ ( NUSEC , 1920 , p. 3 ) . |