Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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) ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Thus it may need to borrow money , and its ability to do so may potentially be affected by an attack on its creditworthiness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For instance , it may help to keep salt , pepper and paper napkins in the bedroom , if that is where the patient eats his meals . |
| 9 | It may help to twist drain rods when pushing them down the drain . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | The more data you acquire the harder it may prove to make sense of it all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It should seek to take advice , let's say , from doctors , engineers , from peo ple working in education . ’ |
| 15 | The issue now was whether it should attempt to retake South Georgia . |
| 16 | ‘ I think it might help to put Mrs Saunders ’ mind at rest if she knows Timothy 's in good hands . ’ |
| 17 | It might help to explain things . ’ |
| 18 | It might help to clear Barney . |
| 19 | Whilst training was no guarantee that losses would not occur it might help to identify health disorders at a stage early enough to allow successful treatment . |
| 20 | If Microsoft is found to have a case to answer , the minimum possibility is that the company is forced to sign a consent decree under which it has to unbundle , and agree not to bundle in future — for instance it might have to dismantle Windows for Workgroups and sell the networking elements as a separate product ( similar networking code will be an integral part of standard Windows NT ) ; at worst , the company could be forced to split itself into two completely different companies , one for operating systems and languages , the other for applications . |
| 21 | Oracle says it 'll refuse to support Windows NT if Microsoft bundles the Sybase Inc SQL Server in the first release of NT . |
| 22 | Father James Morrow makes no apology for his uncompromising attitude when he feels it could help to save lives . |
| 23 | It might not have been her place to reveal such a suspicion , but it could help to relieve Juliette 's fears on her brother 's behalf . |
| 24 | As I mention in my letter , a footway along this section it could help to avoid accidents and even save lives . |
| 25 | In this case it could help to identify family links . |
| 26 | A general energy tax , on the other hand , would not be desirable because it would tend to minimise fuel switching . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ It would tend to make men , women and children happier , better and more Christ-like . ’ |
| 28 | The Federal Cartel Office had on April 20 , 1989 , objected to the proposed takeover on the grounds that it would lead to market domination in the arms , aerospace and truck industries by Daimler-Benz , which in recent years had taken over another aerospace company , Dornier , the electrical concern AEG and the engineering company MTU . |
| 29 | Nuclear Electric says there is no safety risk although it would want to prevent leaks within the reactor containment . |
| 30 | It would prefer to import technologies , enabling it to copy or co-produce . |