Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should make note of the going especially on the take-offs and landings of each fence and decide how it may change or deteriorate . |
| 2 | This reality is not primarily one of sense experience or of the conscious intellect , though it may suffuse and illuminate both . |
| 3 | Please pray for the Brazilian church that it may mature and become a blessing to the nation and to the world . |
| 4 | Even allowing for doubt about whether the vitamin supplementation was effective , administering it seems to be a one way bet — at worst it is harmless , but at best it may cure or prevent the disorder in question . |
| 5 | It may maim or kill you . " |
| 6 | It may appear that putting this strategy into practice will take more time than the conventional practice of writing words in the children 's own spelling books . |
| 7 | Plotting becomes charged with ambivalence as it may create or impose order . |
| 8 | It may enhance or reduce ‘ life chances ’ , that is their chances of obtaining those things defined as desirable and avoiding those things defined as undesirable in their society . |
| 9 | Many of the flavourings which enhance our food today have not been thoroughly tested , or if they have , the testing has been done in isolation without taking into account the reaction it may have when combined with others . |
| 10 | Under duress it may flee and hide , but it can only do this occasionally . |
| 11 | It may try and cope without and make a big saving on salary payments . ’ |
| 12 | Separation may result from clinical depression and , therefore , it may aggravate or maintain a pre-existing depressive condition … |
| 13 | Your local social services department should be able to advise you about help which it may provide or know about . |
| 14 | A market economy that registers only effective demands made upon it may find or tend towards an ‘ equilibrium ’ that does not coincide with full employment , and hence the manipulation of aggregate demand ( especially via the more potent fiscal weapons ) can produce a preferred path for the economy . |
| 15 | Those of us who wish to push forward must acknowledge the pain it may cause and help those affected to grieve , and then to let go of values and ideas which may no longer be relevant . |
| 16 | This particular idea , unpromising though it may seem when reduced to words , is put by Britten to astonishingly fruitful use in the course of the opera . |
| 17 | All that is required is that sufficient of the works shall have been completed to enable the premises to be used for the purpose intended , and if the tenant has any particular concerns as to the completion of the works then it should ensure that express provision is made for those concerns in the agreement ( see clause 2.8 ) . |
| 18 | Allow the eggs to cook over a gentle heat — it should bubble and puff up . |
| 19 | Heads take care to let those who are interviewed for new posts know what sort of school it is , what it believes in , how it relates to its community and how it is planned that it should develop and improve . |
| 20 | The Butler Act provided for universal free state secondary education , but did not specify the form it should take or rule on whether or not there should be selective schools . |
| 21 | Although a will can be prepared very quickly in an emergency , it is much better to take ample time to consider carefully what it should say and to make sure that you are happy with the arrangements you have made . |
| 22 | To give the court any other informationhe considers it should have and to advise on any other matter as required . |
| 23 | If the firm wishes to maximise profits , it should produce and sell 70,000 units at a price of £6.50 . |
| 24 | It is necessary the body should move that way whither the greater force carries it which is the consent of the majority or else it is impossible it should act or continue one body , one community which the consent of every individual that united into it agreed that it should and so everyone is bound by that consent to be concluded by the majority . |
| 25 | If Europe is serious about a common defence and foreign policy , it must face and deal with the challenge of Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | If a soft-currency country wants to import something it must earn or borrow one of the hard currencies to pay for it . |
| 27 | In communications , too , the Soviet Union has realised it must modernise or die , whatever the risk . |
| 28 | In order to establish its own inner world it must dislodge and abolish the surrounding one . |
| 29 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 30 | Psychologists themselves present method as their discipline 's defining feature : ‘ If psychology is a science of mental life — of the mind , of conscious experience — then it must develop and defend a special methodology ’ ( Skinner quoted in Alladin 1988 : 111–12 ) . |