Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may even threaten human health , mainly by contaminating water . |
| 2 | It may also inhibit spontaneous protest . |
| 3 | In so doing , it may also win new respect in other areas of physics , where many see it as a fascinating but over-costly irrelevance . |
| 4 | It may also have different siting relationships to some of these than the purely exploitative patterns indicated above . |
| 5 | One reason is that it may not leave sufficient motivation for the individuals to set about increasing the value of the company . |
| 6 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 7 | The state rightly claims that its unitary tax is far less onerous than it was a decade ago , and hints that it may soon limit unitary-tax treatment to a multinational company 's American profits . |
| 8 | A co-operation agreement or joint venture infringes Article 85 if it may appreciably affect inter-state trade and its object or effect is to prevent , restrict or distort competition . |
| 9 | The order of subjects must be systematic and generally acceptable to the anticipated users of index or collection ; it should also facilitate effective browsing between related subjects . |
| 10 | It should also offer living experience of the life of faith — in the way it is organised and in the relationship of those who work and learn there , in its approach to pastoral care and guidance , liturgy , extra-curricular work , to discipline and to a concern and appropriate approach for those with special needs . |
| 11 | " We are of the opinion that if such action is to be imposed , it should also involve temperate timber , " he added . |
| 12 | I believe that there are ways of getting local people to participate in their own ceasefire with some help from outside , but it should not need mass troop movements to do it . |
| 13 | 3 It should preferably have clear glass or plastic on all sides so that you can view the web clearly . |
| 14 | It must also make full use of all sources of energy . |
| 15 | Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn . |
| 16 | It might even bring British computer people up to the level of their more professional continental opposite numbers . |
| 17 | She 'd decided to go along with the FBI for a laugh , and because it might possibly help British Intelligence . |
| 18 | it 'll just say privileged instruction violation , |
| 19 | Thought there was going to be a much look , see where it could eventually to control industrial air pollution from local industries . |
| 20 | It involved reading , the consultation of several books and resources , the study of visual or aural material , and the production of work or the answering of questions from all these sources ; it could also involve creative writing or drama , and small group work following productive discussion . |
| 21 | Although this disk is primarily aimed at the professional market like advertising agencies , broadcasters and newspapers it could also prove invaluable research material for schools , colleges , and local theatre groups . |
| 22 | For one thing , it could absorb a lot of expert resources and the policy gains might not outweigh the costs of investigation in many cases : it could also encourage rent-seeking behaviour . |
| 23 | After a review of the state of research , the government decided , in 1988 , that it could not justify continued expenditure of £100 million a year on a project with such an elusive prospect of commercial return . |
| 24 | Lamont told the House of Commons on Oct. 22 that legislation would be introduced to enable the Bank of England to refuse or revoke authorization of banks where , because of their international structure , it could not exercise proper supervision , and the government intended to initiate a strengthening of international supervisory co-operation . |
| 25 | The company was engaged in a delicate balancing act ; it could not afford first-rate machinery or transport until it had expanded , but it could not expand ( as a wholesaler at least ) until it improved quality through more sophisticated machinery . |
| 26 | Sun said it went to the Russians because it could n't find comparable technology anywhere else — the only other source comes from the US military , and according to Dave Ditzel , acting head of Sun Labs , ‘ It 's easier to work with the Russians ’ . |
| 27 | It could never take regulatory action on the basis of a criticism or a complaint alone . |
| 28 | It could never take regulatory action on the basis of a criticism or a complaint alone |
| 29 | But it ca n't stand high compression — a major drawback to power output . |
| 30 | If such integration were the aim , it would immediately have enormous resource implications in an already impoverished education system . |