Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Photoflo creeps onto the reverse side of the grid , it may leave drying artefacts . |
| 2 | It may mean providing services , such as education or a health service , which are available to all , or the home help service , which is available to those judged to be most in need of it . |
| 3 | For the Autumn 1955 issue , Mary Short of Norwich wrote an article entitled ‘ Compel them to Come in ’ predicting that the WEA would die a natural death unless more young members were recruited and advocating adventurous experiment : ‘ it may mean holding afternoon classes , or running a baby-sitter service so that young couples with children can come … has any Branch tried to recruit new members by advertising courses on child psychology at ante-natal clinics and infant welfare centres ? ’ . |
| 4 | Normally the Bank operates in the markets at midday and 2.00 p.m. , but on days of very large shortages , it may offer to buy bills earlier in the day ( 9.45 a.m. ) as well . |
| 5 | But uncontrollable impulse , caused by mental defect , is not at present accepted as exempting from criminal liability , except that it may serve to reduce murder to manslaughter ( see pp. 167–8 ) . |
| 6 | This would imply an analogy with a variation of interpretation when , for instance , the pronoun they is used ; it may refer to animate beings , or to objects . |
| 7 | It may make standing orders to govern its procedures . |
| 8 | In an emergency , however , it may refuse to allow contact for up to seven days if it is necessary to do so in order to safeguard or promote the child 's welfare ( s34(6) ) . |
| 9 | You may or may not be able to do that because it may have lost consciousness , alright , but we 'll put down warm drink if possible . |
| 10 | It may have saved Sakharov 's life . ’ |
| 11 | Having been bitten by PW it may have made Deloitte shy of Touche . |
| 12 | The eruption which probably had the most far reaching effect on civilization was that of Santorin ( Thera ) in the Aegean , in about 1470 B.C. This abruptly extinguished the highly-developed Minoan culture centred on Crete , and , because the eruption caused the submergence beneath the sea of a large part of the island of Santorin , it may have given rise to the age-old legends of Atlantis , the ‘ lost ’ or ‘ drowned ’ continent . |
| 13 | It may have changed hands as often as eight times in a period of twenty years . |
| 14 | He had lost his watch back in Victorian London and so had no clear idea of time ; it may have taken minutes or hours to get back to the hole in time . |
| 15 | Or it may need to employ staff , and a statement that it engages in discriminatory employment practices may potentially affect its ability to attract staff of the right calibre . |
| 16 | Thus it may need to borrow money , and its ability to do so may potentially be affected by an attack on its creditworthiness . |
| 17 | Unlike the construction of age equivalents , in the generation of standard scores it may help to include children with linguistic difficulties in the standardisation sample , since the test 's items will be designed to discriminate these children from children who are not experiencing language difficulties . |
| 18 | For instance , it may help to keep salt , pepper and paper napkins in the bedroom , if that is where the patient eats his meals . |
| 19 | It may help to twist drain rods when pushing them down the drain . |
| 20 | This education may go well beyond simply fostering understanding of the change itself ; it may include needs assessment and subsequent training in the skills and knowledge that are shown to be essential to functioning successfully in the changed environment . |
| 21 | While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ . |
| 22 | The more data you acquire the harder it may prove to make sense of it all . |
| 23 | At Liverpool it should pay to give Jack Banks ' Mizyan another chance in the Oddbins handicap Hurdle as he was probably an unlucky loser last time out . |
| 24 | However , I have no doubt that , in the context of the statutory tenancies with which we are here concerned , that what is intended to be the effect of section 3 is that it should continue to provide protection until there has actually been execution in the ordinary way by the court 's bailiff in accordance with the requirement of the County Court Rules 1981 ( S.I . |
| 25 | If the UK Government is serious about stopping the greenhouse effect it should stop wasting time on long-term impracticalities such as nuclear power and look at what can be achieved now . |
| 26 | If a holding company can not immediately recover ACT against its own corporation tax liabilities , it should consider making use of its subsidiaries ' ACT capacity ( ie tax liabilities available for offset in the previous six years ) . |
| 27 | When the US entered World War I in April 1917 , Leland suggested to GM it should begin building aircraft engines . |
| 28 | It should seek to take advice , let's say , from doctors , engineers , from peo ple working in education . ’ |
| 29 | The issue now was whether it should attempt to retake South Georgia . |
| 30 | The weather was being at its most uncooperative — it was tippling down with rain when according to his forecast at briefing it should have cleared hours ago , and every single one of the navigators flying that night had been in to complain bitterly . |