Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no single investor is supposed to have more than a 15 per cent holding the government has indicated that it may waive this requirement . |
| 2 | Where , however , ‘ control ’ is attenuated by a gap between those concerned with policy and the implementing agency , it may assume crucial significance . |
| 3 | • The Phoenix city authority has announced it may relinquish financial involvement in the grand prix next year and seek an independent promoter . |
| 4 | In the short term , it may upset established practices . |
| 5 | On the other hand , it may change financial reporting practice because of what it represents in the continuing controversies about professional self-regulation . |
| 6 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 7 | In terms of product development , HDTV may not have profound implications but it may change some design factors . |
| 8 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 9 | The Commission kept under review the human rights situation in Afghanistan , Romania , El Salvador and Iran but sent a clear signal that it may terminate special scrutiny of the latter two countries at its next session . |
| 10 | It may mean heated arguments , harsh words and hurt feelings , but once the air is cleared everyone will feel better . |
| 11 | It may mean fundamental alterations to the way in which they manage their farms . |
| 12 | There is a danger that it may displace some trouble elsewhere , but on balance it is a great step forward . |
| 13 | This book will help readers to understand the single European market , not an easy thing in itself , and how it may affect voluntary organisations and users . |
| 14 | At least in the eyes of the courts , too close a scrutiny of business decisions may , in addition , be dangerous , since it may inhibit legitimate risk taking . |
| 15 | They say it 's going to increase production , but it may involve other costs . |
| 16 | It may involve additional cost if you 're going to have the er chefs coming in for a Saturday . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As the project team commented : ‘ The public are naturally unwilling to accept change , particularly when it may involve some travelling disadvantage , unless they can recognise clear compensating benefits … . |
| 19 | The principle of salvation may be theological , as in the case of religious fundamentalism ; or it may be purely secular , as with ethnic nationalism ; or it may involve some combination of the two . |
| 20 | However they decided the case on another basis and Pearson LJ said " it may be said in answer to the possibility of such a reductio ad absurdum , though no doubt , it has to be taken into account , is far from conclusive , because it may involve unlikely hypotheses , which would be outside the reasonable expectations of the parties at the time of the making of the contract of employment " . |
| 21 | On the academic site , detailed tephrachronology makes it possible to study patterns in the behaviour of volcanoes — the magma erupted from one volcano may become steadily more acid , or it may show cyclical changes , or it may even vary consistently during each eruption , starting off fairly basic and ending up at the close of the eruption much more acid . |
| 22 | It may show reasonable profitability despite difficult trading conditions . |
| 23 | An Equal Opportunities Commission , set up by the 1975 Act , oversees the working of the Acts : it may conduct formal investigations , and seek to enforce the law by civil proceedings . |
| 24 | JET-engine giant Rolls-Royce warned yesterday it may switch some production abroad because of Britain 's currency crisis . |
| 25 | It may deter other caterpillars too ! |
| 26 | A database may hold factual information e.g. facts about Eskimo life or important Eskimo words and their meaning or it may hold bibliographic information ( fiction or non-fiction ) e.g. references to books , slide-sets , films , or periodical articles on Eskimo life and their environment . |
| 27 | ICL is to offer a shrink-wrapped version of Unix SVR4 on its so-called ‘ Spring Collection ’ of deskside and desktop Intel Corp 80486-based personal computers and servers launched recently , and says it may offer that implementation on other manufacturers ' PCs too . |
| 28 | Much of this story will necessarily be unfamiliar to them but it may offer some understanding of how the work of God here has developed and of what there is that is worthwhile in the legacy of the past . |
| 29 | It may predate larger animals as well as small mammals , with records of prey as large as juvenile foxes and roe deer . |
| 30 | This amazing posture displays its markings even more conspicuously and in this position it may advance several feet towards the attacker . |