Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the flow , or ( annual ) amount of the commodity increases , the supply price may either increase or diminish ; or it may even alternately increase and diminish . |
| 2 | It may even totally refuse to eat unless it knows a familiar food to be especially nice — and poor quality hay can never be put in that category . |
| 3 | If a tree is pollarded and thereafter maintained at a much reduced height than before , it may no longer affect a nearby building . |
| 4 | In many respects it may no longer fulfil a useful function and those parts of the job that are still useful could be distributed among existing staff . |
| 5 | Ultimately , segmentation policy may lead Perkins to a market situation where it may no longer see itself as " an engineering company selling an engineering product " but instead is " moving towards a service company approach " in which " the ability to work with customers must be a high priority . " |
| 6 | The refugees kept in the camps face many crises of diet ; not only is it not balanced in some cases , but it may also not arrive on time , causing disease and death . |
| 7 | It may also not have been the least of Ælfheah 's attractions to the people of London , heavily taxed in 1018 , that he was murdered for being unable or unwilling to give money to the Danes ; nor need it have made Cnut 's position any easier that King Æthelred , too , lay buried in St Paul 's . |
| 8 | A subordinate class , such as the working class will , by definition , be low on economic resources and this will reproduce its subordination ; but it may also possibly generate a collective ethic to cope with adverse circumstances and so reproduce itself in this way according to a common cultural identity . |
| 9 | This is primary evidence ( material produced in the past ) , though it may well also offer a particular interpretation of an event . |
| 10 | If military training can incorporate an element of preparation for the emotional experience associated with active service abroad which prevents even a small number of psychiatric casualties , it may well also help to maintain the morale of others and be cost-effective in these terms . |
| 11 | The law is based on reasonableness , yet it may well not reflect public opinion . |
| 12 | However , even if the bureau has the typeface it may well not appear on the output due to the vagaries of Apple 's font numbering system . |
| 13 | As I think you will agree when you have looked at all the evidence it may well not have been quite so simple in this case to determine what was the best for the girl , as we , looking back on events from this point in time , may think . |
| 14 | It may well then have to face the vested interest of different institutions and organizations and there may be difficulties defining where some provision could fit in . |
| 15 | The presence of the provision , however , suggests that kadis had in practice been making their way back into the medrese stream , though it may well never have been intended that they should do so . |
| 16 | Additionally , says Millerand , elaborate Louis XIV furniture has a much narrower audience than later eighteenth-century styles , and those that like it may simply not have the space to accommodate such a very large piece of furniture . |
| 17 | While , for the reasons just explored , raising the standard of care may have only a limited impact on the courts ' willingness to categorise a decision as negligent rather than as a mere ‘ error of judgment ’ , it may still nevertheless lead to the courts playing a greater role as monitors of business efficiency . |
| 18 | If not , it is unlikely to change its aims , but it may very well change its non-armed methods . |
| 19 | Even in linguistics , the recent rise of pragmatics as opposed to syntax and semantics as the basis for understanding the nature of meaning ( e.g. Sperber and Wilson 1985 ) should suggest that , while the contextual world of objects may be the last and most overlooked component of the mechanisms of social interaction , it may very well prove , when finally excavated from its embedded relationship to the unconscious , to be the most significant factor of all . |
| 20 | We have just seen that a non-resonant photon will normally leave an encounter with a molecule unchanged in energy , but it may very rarely lose energy to the molecule and emerge as a Raman-shifted photon of lower energy . |
| 21 | The purchaser should reject any suggestion by the vendor that it may then only recover the amount of the claim exceeding the de minimis . |
| 22 | It should also be pointed out that Donoghue v. Stevenson established a principle of wider application than it may so far have appeared . |
| 23 | But it may all not have been necessary . |
| 24 | So for its first half-century , after Weisthenes , the Athenian Council was an unpaid elected body , something which gave it an elite character which it may never wholly have lost . |
| 25 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 26 | It is n't a subject that most people like to dwell on ; it may never even have occurred to you . |
| 27 | That , too , may have been reactive to Modernism and Bloomsbury , which were certainly coteries , though in a land traditionally sceptical of manifestoes and cynical about self-advertisement it may as easily have been the reassertion of an ancient mistrust . |
| 28 | It should also not take the place of fresh funds from Western banks , Mr Christophersen said . |
| 29 | It should also not take the place of fresh funds from Western banks , Mr Christophersen said . |
| 30 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |