Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case it may lend to the discount houses ; then the Bank 's balance sheet will show an increase in advances ( an asset ) and in bankers ' deposits ( a liability ) . |
| 2 | If a frog is climbing when it is attacked , it may drop to the ground and lie there motionless for several minutes before risking an escape . |
| 3 | A search-light may scan the sky looking for aeroplanes or it may move to that part of the sky where they are expected to be . |
| 4 | It may progress to the throat , larynx and down onto the chest . |
| 5 | It may progress to arms face and respiratory muscles . |
| 6 | In principle this is 8m x 8m ( 9.5yd x 9.5yd ) but in practice it may shrink to only 7m x 7m ( 8.3yd x 8.3yd ) in order to fit enough areas in the available space . |
| 7 | It says it may switch to a RISC microprocessor in future iterations of what is becoming an extremely popular product on the OEM market . |
| 8 | It may relate to a packaging problem in which a fixed number of unrelated items have to be pressed into the smallest volume . |
| 9 | The reason for this is not clear but it may relate to the more recent stress associated with handling and anaesthesia for irradiation . |
| 10 | If he happens to take his eye of the ball , he is very likely to be bowled , and if he hits the ball it may go to any point on the ground where the possibilities of making runs , being caught or surviving an appeal to the umpire are all on the cards . |
| 11 | Occasionally linen , holland or cerecloth would have been specially bought in for this purpose rather than sacrificing a useful item of domestic furnishing in an age when linen of any appreciable width was a luxury and worthy of bequest ( 'There are 4 very fine smocks in your father 's little linen trunk and one of my four breadth Holland sheets for your own girl Peg … and I desire your father that he will not let any of my household linen be sold , but that it may go to you and your eldest son and I hope to his son too , only some of my broderies of my own making give to your sister . ' ) . |
| 12 | The scheme includes off-the-job training and further education of a minimum of three months , though it may extend to six months , either on a day or block release basis , together with work experience periods with employers structured to give trainees a wide range of jobs . |
| 13 | In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored . |
| 14 | InsP 3 does not appear to play any part in the maturation of invertebrate and amphibian eggs , but it may contribute to the spontaneous maturation of bovine oocytes . |
| 15 | It may contribute to performance but it is , like ability , merely a guide to potential . |
| 16 | Our huggable bunny may well be eaten by a fox , it may well be eaten by us , or it may start to be eaten by micro-organisms , die and be finished off by other microorganisms . |
| 17 | This applies just as much to me as it may do to you . |
| 18 | If he was involved in competitive sports before , aiming from the start at tournaments and championships places a lot of pressure on the patient , and it may lead to bitter frustration when he can not reach his previous standards as quickly as he might hope . |
| 19 | It may lead to a gap between the values of those most closely tied to the institutions of the labour movement and the unwaged . |
| 20 | It may lead to vomiting or haemorrhage . |
| 21 | it may lead to new techniques for the prospecting of minerals . |
| 22 | It may lead to a considerable degree of social deprivation and a miserable existence for the families involved . |
| 23 | In which case , it may lead to a dis engagement from learning . |
| 24 | It emerges from the above discussion that man-machine allocation of function is at best an oversimplification and it may lead to the neglect of some key features of human performance . |
| 25 | If this trend is allowed to continue unchecked it may lead to more solicitors finding criminal defences unprofitable and yet another field of work will be lost to the solicitors ' branch of the profession generally . |
| 26 | In others it may lead to depression . |
| 27 | Once the day care centre is no longer suitable we may introduce the sitter service ; link in with the local day hospital or it may lead to long term care . |
| 28 | It may lead to lack of motivation . |
| 29 | It may also waste time and energy ; it may be unproductive ; it may lead to hostility and to low morale . |
| 30 | It may lead to the complete disappearance of a consonant , as in castle or a partial transformation as in irresistible , originally in-resistible . |