Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent . |
| 2 | The superoxide generated may have a direct cytotoxic effect or it may interact with inflammatory mediators to modify the inflammatory process . |
| 3 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 4 | This can have the effect of moving the blockage further down the burrow , or it may result in one or more rabbits deciding to make a bolt for it . |
| 5 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 6 | Although this complication is unlikely to cause overt clinical problems it may result in diagnostic confusion particularly with peritoneal malignancy . |
| 7 | A market may consist of a mere handful of people ( eg specialist collectors of a certain type of antique porcelain ) , or it may consist of millions ( eg consumers of breakfast cereals ) . |
| 8 | A molecule may be monatomic — as in the case of noble gases — or it may consist of two or more atoms . |
| 9 | A search-light may scan the sky looking for aeroplanes or it may move to that part of the sky where they are expected to be . |
| 10 | If you want to get the boss 's ear it may mean excluding other people from the conversation , although they are still present . |
| 11 | It may accord with some of our moral gut reactions , which seem to tell us that wrongdoers should be made to suffer . |
| 12 | Only it may feel like such a disaster that , that they feel they ca n't do anything about it , er but you 're saying that that is n't , is n't necessarily the case ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If he happens to take his eye of the ball , he is very likely to be bowled , and if he hits the ball it may go to any point on the ground where the possibilities of making runs , being caught or surviving an appeal to the umpire are all on the cards . |
| 15 | The scheme includes off-the-job training and further education of a minimum of three months , though it may extend to six months , either on a day or block release basis , together with work experience periods with employers structured to give trainees a wide range of jobs . |
| 16 | ‘ It may recover with careful treatment . |
| 17 | No one can tell what stimulus it may bring or the fruit it may bear in creative work by later generations . |
| 18 | Once the day care centre is no longer suitable we may introduce the sitter service ; link in with the local day hospital or it may lead to long term care . |
| 19 | it may lead to new techniques for the prospecting of minerals . |
| 20 | If this trend is allowed to continue unchecked it may lead to more solicitors finding criminal defences unprofitable and yet another field of work will be lost to the solicitors ' branch of the profession generally . |
| 21 | This may simply mean a better understanding of historical sites , including those abroad in this age of mass foreign travel ; it may lead to active participation of an archaeological nature ; it may mean a better guide by which to judge or understand the paperback or so-called " historical novel " or the historical play on television . |
| 22 | If he was involved in competitive sports before , aiming from the start at tournaments and championships places a lot of pressure on the patient , and it may lead to bitter frustration when he can not reach his previous standards as quickly as he might hope . |
| 23 | A sufficient moral universe it may remain for those who inhabit it , but they are a dwindling band and for large areas of the country Labour 's world is a cultural world apart . |
| 24 | Whatever uses it may serve within descriptive linguistics , and there is clearly some advantage in dividing up and abstracting fields of study for specific purposes , it is quite a different matter to then take such abstract categories as ‘ language-systems ’ rather than language uses as the basis for cross-cultural comparison , particularly when what is being compared is such a socially charged concept as ‘ objectivity ’ . |
| 25 | It may refer to uncertificated achievements but might include those which have been certificated , especially where the certification does not record the precise nature of the achievement , or was acquired in a different/unrelated context . |
| 26 | This ability is independent of idiosyncratic beliefs , feelings and usages ( although it may refer to those shared by participants ) , and is based for the most part on quite regular and relatively abstract principles Pragmatics can be taken to be the description of this ability , as it operates both for particular languages and language in general . |
| 27 | However it may appear to modern man , the measure of ruthless cruelty that may be manifest in the evolutionary processes , can not be labelled ‘ evil ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |