Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also it may mean that you have to pay in advance . |
| 2 | ‘ Confidentiality ’ may mean my right ( or wish ) that you do not pass on what I have told you ( or do n't identify me as the informant ) , or it may mean my wish ( or right ) that you do not pass on information about me , or , with ‘ professional ’ prefixed , it may mean that our group will support each other by saying nothing about each other 's judgements , competencies or foibles . |
| 3 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped child will be dependent on other people , including its parents , more than the average child . |
| 4 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped child will require special educational needs in order that its full potential be realised , extending to the teaching of social as well as academic skills . |
| 5 | It may mean that the mentally handicapped adult will not be able to engage in as productive a job as an adult with a higher level of intelligence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it may mean that an apparent loss of context-specificity might be found only after very protracted training indeed . |
| 8 | If money is short while the patient is ill , there is great pressure on the carer and the family , and often it may mean that the patient is unable to receive the specialist rehabilitation treatment which is increasingly difficult to obtain under the National Health Service . |
| 9 | It may mean that a neonatal intensive care unit , after careful reflection , rather than emotional appeals and ‘ shroud-waving ’ , may have to give way to a number of other services , relating , for example , to the mentally ill , all of which can be financed for the cost of one such unit , which , in combination , will facilitate a measure of improvement in the patients ' conditions and their integration into society . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At one extreme , it may mean that the world will not contain an example of any single human being doing that thing ; at the other end , it may merely mean that if a group of human beings adopt a norm requiring that behaviour , the norm will often be broken , its observance will give rise to a good deal of anxiety , those who comply without anxiety to the norm will be unusual in other respects , and so forth . |
| 12 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
| 13 | Anyway , the position now is that if you do not take silk at the right moment , it may mean that you have to continue working much too hard for your time of life ; on the other hand some barristers who take silk repent it , for they find too late that their services in the more expensive class of advocacy are not in demand . |
| 14 | As far as we are concerned it may mean that we will have to pay some costs not previously charged to us . |
| 15 | So in so far as that affects the confession it may mean that it could be removed but that 's really completely irrelevant to you because erm that 's his confession , not evidence against him . |
| 16 | I think it may mean that we 'll have to call a meeting quite quickly after this one , to discuss , but I really do n't think we 've got the basis of anything till that comes back . |
| 17 | It may mean that the legal title to the property is defective , and if this is so , certain remedial steps may be necessary , such as obtaining a defective title indemnity policy from an insurance company and a statutory declaration from the seller or the seller 's neighbours . |
| 18 | and push and cajole , and it may mean that you need to erm over visit er |
| 19 | But I do n't think that means we have to adjust our sales structure to them it may mean that we have to look at theirs and decide who 's gon na deal with what , but th but we do n't have to gear all our structure |
| 20 | It may mean that all lambs expected to be put before live exporters will have to carry a flock identification mark . |
| 21 | It may arise that the ultra vires transaction entered into by the company is one in which a director or some other person connected with the company has an interest . |
| 22 | For example , if a school has attempted to improve its image in the neighbourhood it may feel that it has been successful if the number selecting the school for the following academic year increases . |
| 23 | It may ensure that , beneath the new uniform , our function remains in effect little different from the former ‘ ambulance service ’ ( Golby and Gulliver 1979 ) instead of increasingly becoming that of ‘ consultants in road-safety ’ . |
| 24 | It may announce that 2.00 p.m. lending to discount houses is to be put back to 2.30 p.m. , when the rate at which loans are made will be published . |
| 25 | It may appear that his ‘ recipe for success ’ involves a corporate strategy which has traditionally been viewed as extremely difficult if not completely untenable : the linking of high product quality with low prices . |
| 26 | It is also unfair on the staff if the evaluation process is not clear in advance ; it may appear that micropolitical factors are at work in order to achieve the right ‘ result . |
| 27 | It may appear that the dependence thesis entails the no difference thesis , but this is not the case . |
| 28 | At first sight it may appear that all the children are doing the same thing but within each group allowance is made for ability and the children follow their own carefully planned programme at their own pace — this is updated regularly . |
| 29 | It may appear that this information is already known but the point at issue is whether the supervisor knows and whether reality matches assumptions . |
| 30 | Even those who have entered a deeply religious life where it may appear that they are hiding themselves away from close contact with others have in fact formed a deep and spiritual relationship with their god . |