Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 2 | In a particularly perverse mood it may assume the shape of a naked man flapping a white sheet , or a chanting girl , or a giant , singing white cat . |
| 3 | Bogwood is semi-fossilised , and should not contain harmful substances , but it may stain the water dark brown . |
| 4 | This is a shame since it may relegate the service to purely commercial outlets , such as flying schools and airfields who will doubtless find it very useful if someone persuades them to take a look . |
| 5 | The issue of equities , although it may improve the creditworthiness of the company , will also reduce the gearing ( leverage ) in its financing mix and also reduce the tax-shield effect of interest payments due to debt holders , thus lowering the potential rate of return to the owners . |
| 6 | The obligation to state reasons , being contained in the Treaty , is a basic requirement , and failure to comply with it may invalidate the instrument concerned . |
| 7 | He says it may cost the council a lot , but they 're only acting as guarantor . |
| 8 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 9 | First , it may explain the meaning of the word " miscarriage " used in the nineteenth century cases for mistake and , secondly , it raises the public policy issue discussed in Chapter 17 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It may mean the detention of innocent people and indeed their imprisonment . |
| 12 | This is written in the full realisation that it may mean the end of a beautiful friendship — knowing how resolutely Edith shuns public acclaim . |
| 13 | It may affect the top of the scale but it 's certainly not most of it Yeah , when it becomes desperate , ok ? |
| 14 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 15 | For example , it is probably important in relation to educational or occupational choices ; it may affect the nature of the marriage relationship , and also , very possibly , the way in which a mother brings up her daughters . |
| 16 | Chapter 12 contains summaries of the regulatory material presently in force so far as it may affect the running of the partnership business . |
| 17 | It may involve the use of mechanical aids , such as eye-glasses , or the conversion of one medium into another , for example , the production of ‘ talking books ’ . |
| 18 | It may involve the use of relevant historic documents . |
| 19 | It may involve the agency 's casting team ( which may be a specialist in a large agency , but is usually the creative group head and the TV producer in a small one ) in seemingly endless poring over directories of actors , and actually seeing a large number of them before a decision can be made . |
| 20 | This may be a simple oversight on the part of the authors of the pamphlet , or it may reflect the thought that since those who attend these colleges would have committed themselves to staying at them until they were 18 ( and such a commitment would be a condition of entry ) , there would be no need for them to take a ‘ school-leaving ’ examination at 16+ . |
| 21 | It may reflect the thought that although we do not aim at the ‘ truth ’ — i.e. our immediate aims are for simple solutions to empirical problems — nevertheless , the truth is what we end up with . |
| 22 | The popular image of the ‘ welfare ’ removing children , however well it may reflect the service given by social services in the eyes of its recipients and of ratepayers , is only a pale reflection of the legal obligations on public authorities . |
| 23 | This is a fairy story version of race relations and it may reflect the hubris or wishful thinking of an intelligentsia which sets up its own preferred cultural practices as a referential model for everyone else . |
| 24 | As the term suggests , these are letters from the Commission to notifying parties stating that the Commission does not believe that there is any need to take action in relation to the agreement or arrangement either because it falls outside Article 85(1) or because it may satisfy the requirements of Article 85(3) , although in such a case the issue of a comfort letter does not amount to an exemption pursuant to Article 85(3) . |
| 25 | It may stress the past as different and difficult to know , an important corrective to those who claim to discover the past ‘ speaking ’ on the basis of only a couple of selected voices . |
| 26 | Even when not evident it is always worth looking for , since it may hold the clue to the whole case . |
| 27 | This method of progression is unsettling enough to make some riders seasick , but it may hold the key to the beast 's endurance . |
| 28 | Gareth Morgan , a senior lecturer in immunology , said : ‘ The proposed treatment is a novel strategy for the management of genetic defects and results of this particular case will be closely observed as it may open the way forward for the treatment of many more inherited disorders . ’ |
| 29 | Or it may set the direction of a programme of research , as when the Gestalt psychologists extended their primarily visual concept of ‘ insight ’ into a gestalt ( literally ‘ shape ’ ) from perception to thinking . |
| 30 | It is an explanation , in other words , that may inhibit learning , while at the same time , it may overprotect the executives . |