Example sentences of "it may [verb] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If so , the restoration of the OR seen in these circumstances need not necessarily imply a change in the specific ability of the target stimulus to evoke its UR ; rather it may mean that even a weak tendency to emit this UR can be amplified substantially by a high level of arousal . |
| 2 | It is accepted that this : may mean that sometimes an employee will get a bit less than he might have expected ; it may mean that sometimes an employer will have to pay a little more than he had expected . |
| 3 | In the future it may complement or even replace standard techniques such as phage typing . |
| 4 | It plucks a long grass stem , carefully strips it of any side leaves it may have and then pokes it down one of the entrance holes of a termite nest . |
| 5 | It may look like just a muddy old pond , but as Sir David Attenborough explains to these schoolchildren , it 's teeming with life . |
| 6 | Conversely , it may transpire that apparently similar domains make radically different use of those constituent words and hence demonstrate extremely different collocational patterns . |
| 7 | It may seem that once stalling and premises costs have been accounted for , there is very little left about which to make decisions . |
| 8 | Feeding most species of marine fish is not therefore as simple as it may seem and even if a fish feeds eagerly , it does n't necessarily mean that it 's eating the right food . |
| 9 | If a disease is caused by a mutation in a gene , it may be ‘ dominant ’ or ‘ recessive ’ — that is , it may occur when only one of the two copies is mutated in spite of the presence of a normal gene , or only when both are defective . |