Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It may train its advisers sufficiently to be able to give para-legal advice in those cases which do not require professional assistance ; it may refer the client to a solicitor ; it may arrange a rota scheme whereby a solicitor attends at the CAB office to see clients ; it may try to appoint its own solicitor . |
2 | The Burmese government has warned that it may place a ban on all exports of logs to Thailand , in the face of reports that some traders are exporting logs illegally . |
3 | Garden Jack Oil Patch Cleaner ( available from DIY stores and garden centres ) will remove the grease , but it may leave a stain . |
4 | Equally , if a real photon collides with an atom , it may move an electron from an orbit nearer the nucleus to one farther away . |
5 | Nevertheless their rebellion is paradoxical — it may mean a baby and a home and an income , but it also means exile from the culture of their own generation and the political resources available to the employed , respectable working class and its representatives . |
6 | For a monolingual speaker , it may mean a shift of style within what is perceived to be the same language . |
7 | It may involve a rejection of the idea of evolution altogether . |
8 | A fall in the interest rate on bonds , for example , will lead to an individual rearranging his wealth portfolio , but this will not necessarily involve a shift from bonds to money ( as in the Keynesian case ) ; it may involve a shift from bonds to some other financial asset or into property . |
9 | CAD gains dramatically when components have to be redrawn many times , when it may out-perform a human by 100 : 1 . |
10 | Within any one place , it may offer a host of different living spaces , especially within the roots , bark , branches , leaves , buds , and flowers of trees , of different species and at different heights . |
11 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
12 | Alternatively , it may represent a subgroup of people with a genetically different cholesterol metabolism , which under particular dietary or environmental circumstances — for example a high fat , low fibre diet — would indirectly promote colon carcinogenesis . |
13 | Improving the security of your home wo n't do much to increase it 's value — but it may prevent a break-in . |
14 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
15 | Every letter contains a message — it may confirm an order , complain about a late delivery or clarify a point — but it also does a great deal more . |
16 | 7 Finally , it may spin a signal thread from the web ( which part ? ) to its hiding place ( where ? ) |
17 | Metformin lowers blood glucose not by an effect on insulin secretion but by inhibiting hepatic gluconeogenesis , possibly increasing peripheral low-affinity insulin receptors , and it may exert a postreceptor effect ( Lord et al , 1983 ; Lockwood et al , 1984 ) . |
18 | If the purpose of the annexation be for the better enjoyment of the object itself , it may remain a chattel , notwithstanding a high degree of physical annexation . |
19 | It may give a method for allocating resources in a situation like that described , but it is quite unclear how it could be used to allocate resources in general . |
20 | This is called pupillage , and arranging it may present a problem . |
21 | Carbon dioxide is consequently abundant in the atmosphere of soils , especially those characterized by high rates of organic activity ; it may reach a concentration of 10 per cent ( in comparison with 0.035 per cent in the free atmosphere ) . |
22 | Further , it may suggest a drift away from the shallow , light soils favoured in the early period to heavier soils which are more fertile and produce a greater yield per acre . |
23 | It may make an appearance further north but the light rain will persist , especially over high ground . |
24 | The rash may take one of several forms — it may mimic a host of rare and not so rare skin conditions . |
25 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
26 | Thus while it may introduce an object clause , as in the above examples , sentences like the one below , where it introduces a subject clause , are not found : seh she came to your party does n't mean she likes you |
27 | It may reveal a relationship perceived by your mind-again , which may or may not be valid . |
28 | It may package a number of these restraints as a business format franchise , and charge a fee or a royalty , or some combination . |
29 | It may demonstrate a sense of outrage toward the criminal and the enjoyment of seeing the wrongdoer punished and justice being done , given that in the majority of crime stories and programmes the criminals come off worse . |
30 | And t and th then , since the paper talk , that 's right , it 's nothing to do with it , but it may have a bit to do with justice , we 'll get round to it in a bit . |