Example sentences of "it may [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it may feel at times to them as individuals , and whatever compulsions they sense from relatives and friends to ‘ get through ’ their course , the fact is that they could withdraw without any legal penalty at least . |
| 2 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |
| 3 | The remit of the training scheme and those responsible for it may end at the transition point to operational activity or may continue in those periods of work regarded as a continuation of training and supervised as such . |
| 4 | Another distinct possibility is that , although annual incidence appears to be declining , it may stabilise at a far higher endemic level than that characterising the population prior to the ‘ epidemic ’ in 1979 . |
| 5 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 6 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 7 | For example , it may appear at the beginning of a statement ( You know , it 's time we talked ) , but it is distinctly unusual at the beginning of a question ( You know , is it 6 o clock ? ) or a command ( * You know , shut the door ) , or an exclamatory or minor sentence ( one does not say , after banging one 's thumb with a hammer , * You know , damn ! ) . |
| 8 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 9 | It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations , but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest , and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism , there is plenty to talk about and share together . |
| 10 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 11 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 12 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |