Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be mildly titillating to feel a hand on your knee during dinner , but in itself it 's not going to bring you off , is it ? |
| 2 | On the other hand , when one is obsessively searching for the solution to a problem , it may be consciously recognised when it occurs as a fluctuation in the random activity of the subconscious whereas in other circumstances it might not emerge at the conscious level at all . |
| 3 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 4 | Personal selling is a very expensive activity to maintain , and it may be best suited to relatively concentrated markets , such as in the UK for ceramics or steel manufacture , or those in which buying is carried out on a centralised basis . |
| 5 | It may be reasonably speculated that English ethnocentricity , then as now , would assume that , first the Scots and later the Irish , were let into Westminster , but the legislation gives no warrant for this assumption . |
| 6 | The problem with section 5 is that it may be unduly limited in scope through the requirement that the risk of prejudice be ‘ merely incidental ’ to the discussion . |
| 7 | Families may have to share lavatories with other families or it may be inconveniently placed and so parents find that it is too much bother to take children to the lavatory and continue to let them soil . |
| 8 | Given that the origins of semantics are diffuse ( logic , philosophy , linguistics , etc. ) it may be also observed that the boundaries of the subject are equally amorphous . |
| 9 | If your inadequacy is so serious that , to use one phrase from the case law , there is an ‘ irredeemable incapability ’ , so that being given a warning and an opportunity to mend your ways would simply be a waste of time and might put the business at risk , it may be just to dismiss you as soon as the full extent of your failings comes to light . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd do that all right but look at what he 's getting mixed up ‘ It may be just talk , ’ she ventured edgily . |
| 11 | As Britain grows older , it may be partly reversed . |
| 12 | The statute occasionally provides in so many terms that the information may be used in evidence ; sometimes that it may not be used for certain purposes , inferentially permitting its use for others ; or it may be expressly prescribed that the evidence is not to be admitted ; or again , the statute may be silent . |
| 13 | At other times it may be barely admitted to consciousness , if whatever it was is seen as threatening to the self . |
| 14 | It may be somewhere to visit once , just to see what it 's like , but it is totally unlike anywhere else , full of remarkable sights . |
| 15 | In August 1824 Hickman produced a pamphlet entitled A Letter on Suspended Animation , containing experiments showing that it may be safely employed during operations on animals , with a view of ascertaining its probable utility in surgical operations on the Human Subject , addressed to T. A. Knight Esq . |
| 16 | For example in the Organon 5th edition ( 1833 ) §276 : ‘ A medicine , even though it may be homœopathically suited to the case , does harm in every dose that is too large , the more harm the larger the dose , and by the magnitude of the dose it does more harm the greater its homœopathicity and the higher the potency selected . ’ |
| 17 | If your opinion is asked , it may be gently given but , in nearly every case , it is neither right nor effective to try to end a relationship forcibly . |
| 18 | It may be justly said of embalming , that it is undeniably the most considerable and efficacious means to answer their intentions . ’ |
| 19 | In this view , teachers have no direct contact with theory , though it may be dimly discerned through the description . |
| 20 | Out of that dissatisfaction it may be about to build something better . |
| 21 | In the view of some linguistics , which was once a branch of the humanities , has already become a branch of cognitive science ; and it may be about to become a kind of big science , requiring large research organisations and equipment resources . |
| 22 | Tinnitus may be very mild and happen only occasionally , present only if attention is given to it , or it may be violently disrupting and at times almost unbearable . |
| 23 | Association with colleagues after working hours could be taken as an indication of the priority given to company matters but it may be reluctantly undertaken . |
| 24 | It may be better understood if it is set in the context of Hindu teaching concerning the different orders or āśramas of society corresponding to the different stages of life . |
| 25 | To the objection that Christianity is true while the others are false he replied significantly , " It may be so said , we think so ; nothing more . " |
| 26 | While it may be virtually abolished on the first night by as few as four or five wakenings , on subsequent nights REM " pressure " increases , and successively more wakenings are required , as the number of times REM sleep is initiated is increased . |
| 27 | In some cases , if there is no repeat of the exposition , the first theme may not be heard again until the recapitulation , by which time it may be almost forgotten . |
| 28 | Hence if the Roundabout Motel were to find itself traversed by the proposed M15 bypassing Seachester , it may be compulsorily purchased after the holding of the requisite public inquiry and the approval of the M15 route . |
| 29 | It may be roughly divided into two parts : magnetostatics and the rest . |
| 30 | It may be rightly concluded that it was a sad affair . |