Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand . |
| 2 | Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand . |
| 3 | It may even have reversed it ( Butz and Ward 1979 ) so that the short-term effects of economic growth in modern societies may be further to reduce fertility , not increase it . |
| 4 | The scheme has been approved by UK energy secretary , John Wakeham , who has indicated that it may eventually become incorporated into building regulations for new houses . |
| 5 | Rather less simply , some people close to Crédit Lyonnais think it may also have lent money to Florio Fiorini , a Swiss-based Italian associated with Mr Parretti . |
| 6 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 7 | The growing hostility between Richard and the Stanleys after 1484 can be explained in terms of the king 's policies , but it may also have owed something to the frictions of the previous fifteen years . |
| 8 | Although some kink in the confluence of timing and temperament may have robbed Wallace of his posthumous fame , it may also have robbed the rest of us , through this century of science , of a broader view of the hidden forces of life . |
| 9 | If Cornwall was anything but a land of rich squires and yeomen , it may also have enjoyed some immunity from the scourge of absolute poverty . |
| 10 | Cambodia made Schanberg but it may also have marred him . |
| 11 | It may also have taken business away from John Smiths , because one enters its sales area straight off the street , whereas Smiths ' comparable sections are well above pavement level . |
| 12 | Not only did professionalism provide an efficient conduct of business , but it may also have tended , by its nature , to some mitigation of the competitiveness of international life . |
| 13 | Modern scientific medicine has of course dispensed with such speculative constructs , but thereby it may also have sacrificed therapeutic insights available to our renaissance predecessors . |
| 14 | It may also have acted as a service centre for the nearby imperial estate centred on Combe Down and for the numerous rich villas which grew up in the vicinity . |
| 15 | But it may also have had something to do with the fact that the Independent co-sponsored the exhibition . |
| 16 | It may also have brought some families into his service for the first time , among them the Pulleys ( or Pullowes ) of Helmsley , whose head , Henry , was to be one of Richard 's yeomen after his accession . |
| 17 | It may also have brought some families into his service for the first time , among them the Pulleys ( or Pullowes ) of Helmsley , whose head , Henry , was to be one of Richard 's yeomen after his accession . |
| 18 | It may well have related to his envy of the nursing pair and the demand he experienced to be a good father . |
| 19 | It may well have become just another one of those self-congratulatory rhetorical devices that grace the public utterances of Anglo-American politicians . |
| 20 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 21 | It may well have contributed to the 1989 decision to introduce a policy of ‘ Power to the Routes ’ for the current decade . |
| 22 | This new layout could not be dated precisely within the later first or early second century , though it may well have followed directly upon the final levelling of the military ditches , dated on pottery evidence to the late Flavian period . |
| 23 | And so on to the shop — ‘ hey … they 're selling stuff here ! ’ — and the cafe , the Casablanca Club , where a second voice murmurs , as it may well have done in arts centre days but certainly wo n't when the family visitor attraction becomes reality , ‘ a cup of coffee ? … pastry ? … hashish ? ’ |
| 24 | Friday 3 April Major , asked if recovery has already begun , replies ‘ It may well have done . |
| 25 | if the rail fare 's gone up as I expect it may well have done . |
| 26 | It may well have influenced the Spanish style in the United States and reflected the role of American imperialism in assimilating a Spanish cultural heritage . |
| 27 | One should be aware that it may well have played an equally significant role in saving the Conservative Party from disintegration . |
| 28 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 29 | The first is to take the beast as an object the girls would be frightened of : in this perspective it may well have existed . |
| 30 | If these two states had agreed to the Grand Design , it may well have succeeded . |