Example sentences of "it may [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 2 | In a particularly perverse mood it may assume the shape of a naked man flapping a white sheet , or a chanting girl , or a giant , singing white cat . |
| 3 | Bogwood is semi-fossilised , and should not contain harmful substances , but it may stain the water dark brown . |
| 4 | This is a shame since it may relegate the service to purely commercial outlets , such as flying schools and airfields who will doubtless find it very useful if someone persuades them to take a look . |
| 5 | The issue of equities , although it may improve the creditworthiness of the company , will also reduce the gearing ( leverage ) in its financing mix and also reduce the tax-shield effect of interest payments due to debt holders , thus lowering the potential rate of return to the owners . |
| 6 | The obligation to state reasons , being contained in the Treaty , is a basic requirement , and failure to comply with it may invalidate the instrument concerned . |
| 7 | He says it may cost the council a lot , but they 're only acting as guarantor . |
| 8 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 9 | It may settle the other two down and prevent one individual from being continually picked on . |
| 10 | First , it may explain the meaning of the word " miscarriage " used in the nineteenth century cases for mistake and , secondly , it raises the public policy issue discussed in Chapter 17 . |
| 11 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 12 | The fear is that when Raytheon has completed its overall review of the Corporate Jets business , it may move the entire operation to the US . |
| 13 | The fear is that when Raytheon completes its overall review of the Corporate Jets business it may move the entire operation to the US . |
| 14 | It may mean the detention of innocent people and indeed their imprisonment . |
| 15 | It may mean the same for many adults as well . |
| 16 | This is written in the full realisation that it may mean the end of a beautiful friendship — knowing how resolutely Edith shuns public acclaim . |
| 17 | For example , it is probably important in relation to educational or occupational choices ; it may affect the nature of the marriage relationship , and also , very possibly , the way in which a mother brings up her daughters . |
| 18 | But I understand your concerns that it may affect the erm . |
| 19 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 20 | Chapter 12 contains summaries of the regulatory material presently in force so far as it may affect the running of the partnership business . |
| 21 | It may affect the top of the scale but it 's certainly not most of it Yeah , when it becomes desperate , ok ? |
| 22 | Outings can be for just one or two residents to go somewhere they want to , or it may involve the whole staff and all the residents . |
| 23 | It may involve the use of mechanical aids , such as eye-glasses , or the conversion of one medium into another , for example , the production of ‘ talking books ’ . |
| 24 | It may involve the agency 's casting team ( which may be a specialist in a large agency , but is usually the creative group head and the TV producer in a small one ) in seemingly endless poring over directories of actors , and actually seeing a large number of them before a decision can be made . |
| 25 | It may involve the use of relevant historic documents . |
| 26 | This may be a simple oversight on the part of the authors of the pamphlet , or it may reflect the thought that since those who attend these colleges would have committed themselves to staying at them until they were 18 ( and such a commitment would be a condition of entry ) , there would be no need for them to take a ‘ school-leaving ’ examination at 16+ . |
| 27 | It may reflect the thought that although we do not aim at the ‘ truth ’ — i.e. our immediate aims are for simple solutions to empirical problems — nevertheless , the truth is what we end up with . |
| 28 | More important , selection over tens of generations can take traits well beyond their original values , and new mutations can contribute to the response , so that it may reflect the fundamental limits on the character , rather than just the initial covariances . |
| 29 | The popular image of the ‘ welfare ’ removing children , however well it may reflect the service given by social services in the eyes of its recipients and of ratepayers , is only a pale reflection of the legal obligations on public authorities . |
| 30 | This is a fairy story version of race relations and it may reflect the hubris or wishful thinking of an intelligentsia which sets up its own preferred cultural practices as a referential model for everyone else . |