Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the short term , it may upset established practices . |
| 2 | It may mean heated arguments , harsh words and hurt feelings , but once the air is cleared everyone will feel better . |
| 3 | It may mean fundamental alterations to the way in which they manage their farms . |
| 4 | This book will help readers to understand the single European market , not an easy thing in itself , and how it may affect voluntary organisations and users . |
| 5 | They say it 's going to increase production , but it may involve other costs . |
| 6 | The ratio may be simply expressed as a percentage or fraction of the firm 's profits or as " income points " ; it may involve preferential salaries ; it may vary as the firm 's profits fall within certain predetermined bands ; it may be subject to reduction if specified targets are missed ; it may contain a discretionary element to be awarded by way of performance bonuses . |
| 7 | However they decided the case on another basis and Pearson LJ said " it may be said in answer to the possibility of such a reductio ad absurdum , though no doubt , it has to be taken into account , is far from conclusive , because it may involve unlikely hypotheses , which would be outside the reasonable expectations of the parties at the time of the making of the contract of employment " . |
| 8 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 9 | An Equal Opportunities Commission , set up by the 1975 Act , oversees the working of the Acts : it may conduct formal investigations , and seek to enforce the law by civil proceedings . |
| 10 | It may deter other caterpillars too ! |
| 11 | It may represent subtle differences in growth cycle or growth form or more complex interactions involving the soil microflora , perhaps the mycorrhizae . |
| 12 | Written with refreshing vitality and , perhaps , missionary zeal , it will delight the converted , and it may attract physical geographers who are earnestly seeking new solutions to certain of their difficulties . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Where government withdraws or reduces its direct contribution to welfare it may still make an indirect contribution if the social security system subsidizes private provision , or it may have to acquire a new range of regulatory concerns about the quality of private services , or it may face increased problems in the other areas of concern because of the new pressures placed upon individuals and families . |
| 15 | Technological Convergence is also a nice idea , but it may lead strong companies into major new markets where they lack experience and fail to achieve success . |
| 16 | It may acquire political functions in certain circumstances , and may therefore find itself associated with programmes , including nationalist and separatist ones . |
| 17 | It may influence lipid levels and introduce all the risks men have , such as heart attacks , which makes it , by and large , unacceptable as a treatment for low libido . ’ |
| 18 | It may harbour undisclosed interests or values . |
| 19 | The government has , however , not committed itself to publishing the review and , Courtney added , it is unlikely to be published in its entirety as it may contain sharp judgements about the usefulness or effectiveness of some research activities . |
| 20 | ( iii ) Defective registration It may be that the charges register fails to disclose accurately particulars of the charge ; for example , it may contain inaccurate particulars of the amount secured , or the property subject to the charge . |
| 21 | The Zambian government has banned the sale of unpasteurized milk direct from farmers to consumers because it may contain high concentrations of the pesticide dieldrin . |
| 22 | The responsibility for housework is a unilateral one , and the failure to do it may have serious consequences . |
| 23 | The standard of NHS accommodation available to trained staff is variable , and even if you are happy to put up with this in the short term , in the longer term it may have adverse effects on your personal life or hopes of a future career . |
| 24 | The problem , simply stated , is that for any rational expectations model one can always specify a non-rational expectations model which has exactly the same implications for a given set of data , even though it may have other implications which are quite different . |
| 25 | And that it may have practical applications . |
| 26 | One hopes that reading it may have good effects , of the kind described by Wordsworth in the 1800 Preface , or more succinctly summed up by Lewis in the conclusion to An Experiment in Criticism , where he says that literature heals the wound without undermining the privilege of individuality . |
| 27 | Also , cooling can produce spectral shifts in emission wavelength , so although it may have potential uses for geological applications where CL emission at room temperature is meagre , the full effects of cooling are at present poorly known and the technique can not be recommended as a regular practice for petrographic purposes . |
| 28 | It may have unlimited funds or it may have very tight ones ; most fall somewhere in between so you have to think creatively about raising the additional finance to do the job properly . |
| 29 | It may have rippling effects and result in more general kindness throughout society . |
| 30 | Furthermore , legislation frequently fails to achieve its objectives and it may have unintended consequences . |