Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may even act as a ‘ unifier of elites ’ . |
| 32 | Perhaps it may even spur them to have a rethink ( miracles have been known to happen at this time of year ) and remove the threat of closure not just from St Bart 's but many other wonderful facilities up and down the country . |
| 33 | At worst , it may even believe that paramilitaries can be a means of defence . |
| 34 | We have n't been able to locate anyone who makes exactly that bird house ( it may even have been especially made ) . |
| 35 | It may even have been — for he was quick to spot poetic talent — that he could see where Betjeman 's true genius lay . |
| 36 | It may even have been the case — a suggestion emanating , admittedly , from a piece of post-war testimony — that the Reich Propaganda Ministry deliberately started off a rumour that the Führer , on discovering what was taking place ( in an ‘ action ’ which , in reality , he himself had authorized in writing ) , had given the order to halt it immediately . |
| 37 | It may even have been a single . |
| 38 | It may even have been increased by the new Article 92 , in spite of the continuing ban on discrimination on the basis of nationality . |
| 39 | It may even have reversed it ( Butz and Ward 1979 ) so that the short-term effects of economic growth in modern societies may be further to reduce fertility , not increase it . |
| 40 | It may even have been that John , anticipating his imminent doom , ratified some such arrangement , perhaps in the ceremony at the Jordan . |
| 41 | Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand . |
| 42 | It may even have been envisaged that the holder of the office would act as , in some sense , chief adviser to the sultan on matters pertaining to the sacred law , although a point to be noted in this connection is that both Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan lived in Bursa while the sultan resided for the most part in Edirne . |
| 43 | Yes , the coal industry has slimmed down ; yes , it may even have to slim down further . |
| 44 | Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand . |
| 45 | It may even have a permanent effect due to the dynamic process generating economies of scale . |
| 46 | This treatment may prove valuable not only in ameliorating the inflammatory response , but also in chronic ulcerative colitis , and it may even find a place in preventing colonic cancer . |
| 47 | It may even turn out that these growth factors are the signals from the organizer which specify the main body axis . |
| 48 | It may even come as a surprise to some to learn that fish and chips is opaque at all ; but one needs only to consider that not any kind of fish , nor any method of cooking and presentation , will qualify for the description , and that this is not true of , say , chips and fish or even fish with chips , both of which are transparent . |
| 49 | The problem is that although the typeface may have the same name — indeed it may even come from the same original — it may not have been coded up in the same way . |
| 50 | It may even happen that you arc able to choose where your kitchen will be , in which case bear in mind the following criteria . |
| 51 | It may even become over-affectionate , refusing to leave its rescuer alone , but this is simply a measure of its inner anxiety concerning the possibility that it may be betrayed once again . |
| 52 | It may again turn on the evidential issue of unsoundness as determined at the moment by the doctor . |
| 53 | It may alternatively take the form of withholding or threatening to withhold the performance of some public duty or the rendering of some public service unless a payment is made which is not lawfully due or is greater than that which is lawfully due , as was the position in the colore officii cases . |
| 54 | Farmers and agricultural traders believe it may eventually trade at 2.55 , even 2.6 , against the deutschmark and perhaps even 8.8-9.0 against the franc . |
| 55 | Its heart beat may speed up or become weak , its breathing heavy and laboured , and it may eventually go into convulsions or start bleeding . |
| 56 | For example , a Third World producer might win the battle to process a mineral or an industrial crop on site , but if this leads to a crisis in foreign currency because the machinery and the technology necessary for the task have to be imported , then it may eventually result in greater dependence . |
| 57 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 58 | If one cat is always given a completely monotonous ( but nutritionally complete ) diet , day in and day out , always the same brand of canned cat food , it may eventually refuse to touch any other , new kind of food , no matter how tasty . |
| 59 | It may eventually become rather twiggy but thinning will improve its shape |
| 60 | It may eventually become apparent that the successful implementation of the 1981 Act was made impossible because in the early stages of its introduction too many teachers were frustrated at the lack of support they received . |