Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " 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 | It may evaporate into the air , or , after passing through the sewage plant , will enter rivers and seas via sewage outflow pipes . |
| 3 | This can be a costly solution because it may result in the involvement of staff who must forgo their needed rest period or the employment of nurses from an inappropriate grade . |
| 4 | At its most extreme , it may result in the court rewriting the terms of a lease in order to do what is fair and reasonable between the parties in circumstances which they did not foresee at the date of the lease ( Pole Properties Ltd v Feinberg ( 1981 ) 259 EG 417 ) . |
| 5 | The ratio may be simply expressed as a percentage or fraction of the firm 's profits or as " income points " ; it may involve preferential salaries ; it may vary as the firm 's profits fall within certain predetermined bands ; it may be subject to reduction if specified targets are missed ; it may contain a discretionary element to be awarded by way of performance bonuses . |
| 6 | It may consist in a rejection of the specific schemes or lines of evolution propounded by nineteenth-century authors . |
| 7 | It may consist in a rejection of the notion that there are identifiable stages , or that talking of stages is a useful way of visualizing evolution . |
| 8 | the fixation of the boy on his mother in the transition period from the oral to the anal phase , that is , in the transition from the purely receptive interests of the child to his first productive efforts , may have a fatal outcome ; it may leave behind a disposition to manic-depressive affections . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It may progress to the throat , larynx and down onto the chest . |
| 11 | It may function as a store of wealth , so that an individual or society can put away the wealth it may generate as the surplus between production and consumption . |
| 12 | For managers and staff , it may feel like an anti-climax after the frenzied run up to implementation . |
| 13 | It may relate to a packaging problem in which a fixed number of unrelated items have to be pressed into the smallest volume . |
| 14 | The first structures to be considered must be the defences themselves , especially those which protected only an essential core , even though it may extend beyond the government installations . |
| 15 | It rarely speaks , though if frightened it may bleat like a goat . |
| 16 | This will occur where the corporate controllers perceive that the long-run loss to the company 's wealth ( and to a greater or lesser extent their own — it may depend on a number of variables ) is likely to be greater than the short-term profits . |
| 17 | It may depend on the philosophy of management in the company or on the personality of the chief executive . ’ |
| 18 | When the solicited animal joins in the harassment , it may end with the enlister going off with the female and leaving the other two to fight it out . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although it has a long history , the paradox of the Prisoners ' Dilemma has recently been much studied for the light it may shed on the evolution of altruistic or cooperative behaviour . |
| 21 | Though it may snack on a strawberry , the ground beetle is an ally |
| 22 | In context , it will function in a certain kind of perspective , depending on the purpose of communication ; for instance , it may function as a statement of a person 's state of health ( John has been taken ill ) , as an identification of the person affected ( John has been taken ill ) , or as an affirmation that the information conveyed is really valid ( John has been taken ill ) . |
| 23 | It may function as a store of wealth , so that an individual or society can put away the wealth it may generate as the surplus between production and consumption . |
| 24 | A State may not claim reimbursement of taxes and costs of any nature for executing a Letter , but it may recover from the requesting State any fees paid to experts and interpreters , as well as the cost of any special procedure requested under Article 9 . |
| 25 | It may lead to a gap between the values of those most closely tied to the institutions of the labour movement and the unwaged . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It may alter as a result of a variety of extraneous factors , in particular supply-side shocks , but Layard assumes that it is invariant with respect to the unemployment rate . |
| 28 | The traditional rituals of port drinking are well-known , but it may came as a surprise to many that it is not the crusty British lawyer savouring his even crustier port that constitutes the core market for port shippers , but the trendy young Frenchman , enjoying young ruby . |
| 29 | In itself it is of no great importance , but it may serve as a pointer to the presence of other sexually transmitted infection . |
| 30 | The Komatsu robot was designed to help draw detailed maps of the ocean floor but it may serve as a prototype for mining and construction vehicles . |