Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a computer , it may lend credence to false data . |
| 2 | Like a computer , it may lend credence to false data . |
| 3 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
| 4 | Or , it may change position in the word , as in " I am fourteen " and " I have fourteen classmates " . |
| 5 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |
| 6 | Article 86 prohibits the abuse of dominant market positions within the Common Market in so far as it may affect trade between member states : the fact that a business has a dominant or monopoly position is not in itself prohibited . |
| 7 | Article 86 provides that : any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the common market or a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the common market insofar as it may affect trade between Member States . |
| 8 | When it strikes the surface it may either rebound , thus repeating its motion , or it may start saltation in another sand grain by impact . |
| 9 | It may give evidence of trade , since coins were used as objects of trade . |
| 10 | When oedema of the male genitalia occurs , it may give rise to the intriguingly-named ‘ saxophone penis ’ . |
| 11 | The social acceptability of a disability may , therefore , be more important than the limitations it may give rise to . |
| 12 | Or it may give rise to a level of customer price-sensitivity which was hitherto absent in the target market segment . |
| 13 | This can be helpful to us but it may give rise to difficulties and require careful handling if the client 's writing skills leave something to be desired . |
| 14 | However , it may give rise to the necessity for a fairly sophisticated mathematical calculation if a conversion table is not published . |
| 15 | To take an obvious example , the drafter may draft the terms referring to the parties as 'seller " and " Buyer " ; if a clause is then incorporated from a different document , referring to " the Customer " , it may give rise to difficult questions of interpretation : prima facie it will be assumed that " the Buyer " and " the Customer " are different people . |
| 16 | It may give awareness of traffic and slamming doors but certainly will not respond to a skylark . |
| 17 | ‘ But it needs to be done , even though it may give offence to the French . ’ |
| 18 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 19 | The demolition of a building does not of itself constitute development , though , of course , it may form part of a building operation , or lead to the making of a material change in the use of the land upon which it stood . |
| 20 | More than a period piece — it dates from 1924 — it may throw light on the view of marriage that led to Humanae Vitae . |
| 21 | Even more important , it may throw light on certain differences between English and other Germanic languages ( e.g. German and Dutch ) . |
| 22 | The final separation may mean an agony of divided loyalty for the children of the marriage or it may spell relief from intolerable tensions which have developed over a long period . |
| 23 | That comes from the se , the seabed churning it up but the sea is never still , it 's tossing and in , as the movement there underneath , although it may appear calm on the surface , but there are times when it 's not calm on the surface , it 's as rough on top as it is underneath . |
| 24 | Despite difficulties in interpreting arousal as a unitary physiological concept , it may make sense as a psychological one . |
| 25 | It may make sense to be tested if you are or intend to become pregnant , as about 13% of babies born to HIV positive mothers are themselves infected . |
| 26 | We will assume that the evaluation of every occam expression yields a value ( even though it may contain division by zero or an uninitialised identifier ) . |
| 27 | Sometimes it may contain information about the author , the date , the writer 's access to information , and even the purpose of the writer , which are clues for the historian about the source 's reliability . |
| 28 | The company with the contract may spend the money , or part of it , at its plants in other States , or it may subcontract part of the work out-of-State . ) |
| 29 | The perchlorate ion can occur as isolated , undistorted ions , or as distorted but essentially unattached ions , loosely attached through one or two oxygen atoms to one or two metal ions , or it may take part in hydrogen bonding to water molecules in hydrated salts . |
| 30 | It may take place at any stage of intellectual or emotional — or libidinal — development . |