Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this occurs in the great blood vessels it may result in loss of the normal damping mechanism of the cardiac output due to the relative inelasticity of these vessels . |
| 2 | It may vary by point one or point two but never more than that . ’ |
| 3 | It may vary in intensity and in duration . |
| 4 | Typically , this project will be part of the company 's engineering or science programme ( but not necessarily research ) , or alternatively , it may consist of course development . |
| 5 | It may protect against cancer of the cervix . |
| 6 | Later it may drop on prey from above a game trail . |
| 7 | It may exist in disregard of a loving partner , it may be condoned in a marriage where that partner is unloving , it may be reprehensible in its effect on spouse and children or — occasionally — it may support the family 's continued existence in circumstances which might otherwise break it . |
| 8 | It may disintegrate on impact or , if it survives that , it may carry on some distance under water . |
| 9 | It may open with desire of woman , but it ends with unexpected consolation or with another desire not of woman . ’ |
| 10 | It may contribute to performance but it is , like ability , merely a guide to potential . |
| 11 | A will apparently has the function of bequeathing but it might also be intended to please or to repudiate — and to a historian , though that was not the intention , it may function as information . |
| 12 | In others it may lead to depression . |
| 13 | It may lead to lack of motivation . |
| 14 | It may also waste time and energy ; it may be unproductive ; it may lead to hostility and to low morale . |
| 15 | On the other , it may bring to light significant features of style which would otherwise have been overlooked , and so lead to further insights ; but only in a limited sense does it provide an objective measurement of style . |
| 16 | Once there it may appear on editor 's data bank visual display unit as a single-line headline . |
| 17 | It may appear as padding to a fixed size due to software limitations or it may be wasted space at the end of tracks and overflow areas because the record that should have gone there was too large . |
| 18 | A poem about a daisy or a butterfly , however quiet in tone and however naive it may appear in isolation , may be read in this context as a hymn to battle against economic thinkers , who could find no place for such useless natural objects in their systems of ideas . |
| 19 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 20 | Indeed , if the change is to enable the accounting reference periods of parent and subsidiary undertakings to coincide or because an administrator has been appointed , it may operate in respect also of the immediately preceding accountancy reference period . |
| 21 | What kind of right to the goods must the plaintiff have in order that interference with it may amount to conversion ? |
| 22 | While communication education may remain the priority of the Animation Programme , it is hoped that it may take on board also other concerns of the Forum Sector , while not excluding assistance with projects . |
| 23 | And although it may smack of determinism , there will be certain laws that if a brick or apple is dropped , they will fall to the ground , the latter getting bruised . |
| 24 | It may escape from sewer leakages or overflows . |
| 25 | It is characteristically red , with an M-type spectrum , and at maximum it may rise to magnitude 5.4 , so that it is then an easy binocular object ; with × 12 or higher magnification I have seen strong colour in it . |
| 26 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has announced that it may resort to abstraction bans to prevent 40 rivers in England and Wales from drying up because of what it called " gross over-abstractions " by water companies for the public water supply . |
| 27 | The fighting has so disrupted the country that some observers believe it may divide between north and south along ethnic lines , or into a patchwork of Islamic fiefdoms controlled by the Mujahideen tribal warlords . |
| 28 | If you have a child , OK , you know it may die of illness or accident — but is n't it different , if you know the whole world might be blown up and poisoned ? ’ |
| 29 | It may come as news to Ken , but the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras of this world are immensely popular and are deserving of decent acoustics and pleasant surroundings . |
| 30 | Wood is affected by liquid water in the form of rain , rivers , seas and so on with which it may come into contact but , more importantly , it is affected by the moisture vapour which is always present in the air . |