Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , although it may be felt necessary for children to have some understanding of violence ( trench warfare ; personal violence ; the physical , visual , and verbal violence of city life ) , one would wish children to be spared the direct experience of it . |
| 2 | It may be felt desirable to inform guests that one party was previously a devoted husband or wife , a widow or widower , who after years of loneliness should be congratulated on at last having found happiness again . |
| 3 | Sometimes the names of the authors of the report appear on the title page but , if the report is going out in the name of an organisation , it may be kept impersonal except for the signatures at the end . |
| 4 | ( If all the salad is not used immediately , it may be kept refrigerated — without the shredded lettuce — for up to 2 days . ) |
| 5 | Sheltered work ventures provided specifically for identifiable groups of people with special needs always run the risk of segregating people with mental disorder from the rest of the community ; whenever possible , therefore , it is desirable to link such initiatives with ‘ for-profit ’ enterprises away from large old hospital grounds , however tempting it may be to use cheap old buildings and land on hospital sites . |
| 6 | After leaving Brooklyn , the show travels to the Dixon Gallery and Gardens , Memphis , where it may be seen 14 February-25 April , 1993 . |
| 7 | The Bank of England ( 1990 ) argues that the venture capital industry has done little to reduce the funding gap and indeed that it may be getting larger . |
| 8 | It may be noted that |
| 9 | Although a second group of trucks was allowed over the river by the Serbs yesterday , UN officials fear it may be halted short of its destination . |
| 10 | It is impossible here to enter into the details of this controversy , but it may be noticed that |
| 11 | It is also appropriate to introduce the new coordinates r and θ instead of t and z given by ( 13.24 ) where it may be noticed that , using the previous notation , . |
| 12 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 13 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
| 14 | The more senior the employee the harder it may be to define clear performance standards . |
| 15 | In a world of uncertainty it may be assumed that equation ( 3.37 ) becomes : |
| 16 | What is certain is that actual copulation only takes a matter of ten or fifteen seconds , though it may be repeated twenty or more times within twenty-four hours and one hundred times within three or four days . |
| 17 | Using ( 21 ) we now evaluate unc and it may be checked that postmultiplication by unc gives a null product . |
| 18 | Bar-Belle 's Len Perry says that it may be converted to an L-4 Grasshopper , or it may be painted pink and called Tinker-Belle ! |
| 19 | The landlord is usually the party who settles the form of the lease ( albeit it may be amended many times before execution ) and most of the covenants are inserted for his protection . |
| 20 | Application for payment out may be made on the return day , or it may be made earlier by application on notice . |
| 21 | It may be clipped classical , random cottage , modern high-tech , or some intensely personal vision of Byzantium , that no one has ever imagined before , but which exists in your head and wants to get out . |
| 22 | ‘ For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) and without limiting the grounds upon which it may be established that consent to sexual intercourse is vitiated — ; ( a ) a person who consents to sexual intercourse with another person — ; ( i ) under a mistaken belief as to the identity of the other person ; or ( ii ) under a mistaken belief that the other person is married to the person , … shall be deemed not to consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( b ) a person who knows that another person consents to sexual intercourse under a mistaken belief referred to in paragraph ( a ) shall be deemed to know that the other person does not consent to the sexual intercourse ; ( c ) a person who submits to sexual intercourse with another person as a result of threats or terror , whether the threats are against , or the terror is instilled in , the person who submits to the sexual intercourse or any other person , shall be regarded as not consenting to the sexual intercourse ; and ( d ) a person who does not offer actual physical resistance to sexual intercourse shall not , by reason only of that fact , be regarded as consenting to the sexual intercourse . ’ |
| 23 | It may be thought unreasonable that the legislation should both refuse to give credit for repayments and charge renewed borrowings as if they were a first-time borrowing . |
| 24 | In others , it may be thought appropriate to arrange merely a casual introduction to the office for a couple of weeks or so at a nominal remuneration . |
| 25 | It may be thought odd that no large bronze double-axes were found at Knossos or Phaistos , but this is probably because the sites were ransacked in antiquity and plundered of their usable and precious metal objects . |
| 26 | It may be thought disturbing that the two methods give different answers ; however , the real argument against both is clearer when they are applied in a situation where the purchases are of different commodities , e.g. coal ( in tons ) , electricity ( in kilowatt hours ) , matches ( in boxes of 50 ) . |
| 27 | It may be thought unwise to present a young a artist in repertoire as familiar and well-recorded as this , but one only needs to listen to the first minute of track one , the F major Sonata , to realise that Haefliger is in complete command and has something unique to offer , namely youthful energy , dash and charisma . |
| 28 | ( 2 ) If the case is reported in the Law Reports it may be thought sufficient to cite only the Law Reports ; but if it is not in the Law Reports the main ‘ collateral ’ reports should be cited in which the case appears . |
| 29 | In some ways it may be considered that psychology has gone too far . |
| 30 | Alternatively , it may be considered appropriate to make a series of short recordings in different settings and compare the results . |