Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | However it may feel at times to them as individuals , and whatever compulsions they sense from relatives and friends to ‘ get through ’ their course , the fact is that they could withdraw without any legal penalty at least . |
| 2 | Leadership is also apparent in many different spheres of activity — the military , the political , the organisational and so on — and it may exist at different levels . |
| 3 | The remit of the training scheme and those responsible for it may end at the transition point to operational activity or may continue in those periods of work regarded as a continuation of training and supervised as such . |
| 4 | Another distinct possibility is that , although annual incidence appears to be declining , it may stabilise at a far higher endemic level than that characterising the population prior to the ‘ epidemic ’ in 1979 . |
| 5 | This is not as much of a gamble as it may appear at first sight , there are general principles of how to cope with the system , some of which can be built into automatic safeguards and some of which can be conveyed to the operator as knowledge and instructions . |
| 6 | But as is already clear from what was said in the last chapter , the irreducibility thesis , plausible though it may appear at first sight , remains highly vulnerable to criticism and requires important additional assumptions if it is to be taken at all seriously . |
| 7 | For example , it may appear at the beginning of a statement ( You know , it 's time we talked ) , but it is distinctly unusual at the beginning of a question ( You know , is it 6 o clock ? ) or a command ( * You know , shut the door ) , or an exclamatory or minor sentence ( one does not say , after banging one 's thumb with a hammer , * You know , damn ! ) . |
| 8 | The role of management is not as simple as it may appear at first glance . |
| 9 | It may seem at times that there is little common ground between the two generations , but if a parent is patient and ready to take an interest , and to listen as well as to give advice or pass criticism , there is plenty to talk about and share together . |
| 10 | It may seem at first sight that the plot of land , the fief , as it was called , was a reward for service , something granted in exchange for service , which would fall in when the vassal died and be regranted to a new vassal . |
| 11 | However , this limitation is not as serious as it may seem at first sight , since the thoughtful response may well be regarded as an adequate objective . |
| 12 | Innocuous though it may seem at first sight , this can be interpreted ( at least in the written form ) in two ways : either ‘ I dislike him ’ ( the most usual reading ) , or , in suitable contexts , ‘ It 's not true that I like him ’ ( for instance , in I do n't dislike him , but I do n't like him either ) . |
| 13 | It should aim at helping individuals to assess the cost to their former life-style , and either to fight the consequences realistically , or to accept and come to terms with them , whichever seems to be the most appropriate . |
| 14 | If the project appraisal is flawed , or if the project only marginally exceeds the minimum rate of return specified by the organization , it is better that it should fail at the approval stage than be implemented with the risk of subsequent failure . |
| 15 | But the British collection should stay in the Tate , which is a suitable building , and the modern stuff should be moved to a specially designed emporium where it should feel at home . |
| 16 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 17 | The rest of the sack matched up to the quality of manufacture and finish of the back system — as it should do at the price . |
| 18 | if it 's a joint comment , yes it should go at the end . |
| 19 | We can not say what the scope of such a review should be in respect of the machinery 's wider preoccupations , but we think that it should look at two aspects in particular . |
| 20 | The government has to get money from somewhere , and it is logical that it should look at the whole area of VAT . |
| 21 | So it should come at the same |
| 22 | Their relationship was n't built on solid foundations , so it was hardly surprising , was it , that it should collapse at the first sign of trouble ? |
| 23 | In a very important class of case , namely , actions upon cheques and other bills of exchange , the rule does not apply and we can see no reason why it should apply at all . |
| 24 | ‘ Surely it should happen at random ? |
| 25 | When there 's a school teacher down there , it should happen at all break times and meal times , erm er |
| 26 | Mr. Wakeham : I agree with my Hon. Friend that most of his suggestions will form part of the solution though I think that the House would be reluctant to depart from the view that it should rise at 2.30 on Fridays . |
| 27 | But then it should say at the end , ‘ For further information contact |
| 28 | It must remain at ease all the time or the task will become more difficult . |
| 29 | Even now I am looking through the chapter on the ‘ law ’ again : the question of colonial robbery ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the alienation … of the surplus product from all pre-socialist forms ’ ( p. 62 ) , ‘ the taxation of private capitalist profit ’ ( p. 64 ) , the question of state loans ( pp. 64–65 ) , currency emission ( p. 65 ) , railway tariffs ( p. 70 ) , the monopoly of the banking system and the credit policy ( pp. 70–73 ) , home and foreign trade ( pp. 73–84 ) , the ‘ prices policy ’ ( sic pp. 84–89 ) , and so on and so forth , with further argument on the theme that socialism is fighting against capitalism and in order to win it must accumulate at the expense of the private economy — and the more the better — this is the entire content of the work . |
| 30 | It must establish at once what type of character each is to play in the plot and the relationship of each to the environment of a theme or the style of dance being used . |