Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Photoflo creeps onto the reverse side of the grid , it may leave drying artefacts . |
| 2 | It may mean managing an estate worth several millions of pounds . |
| 3 | It may mean facing that boss . |
| 4 | It may mean operating with associate companies , where the bulk of the brewing operations are carried out through licensed brewing agreements . |
| 5 | It may mean providing services , such as education or a health service , which are available to all , or the home help service , which is available to those judged to be most in need of it . |
| 6 | For the Autumn 1955 issue , Mary Short of Norwich wrote an article entitled ‘ Compel them to Come in ’ predicting that the WEA would die a natural death unless more young members were recruited and advocating adventurous experiment : ‘ it may mean holding afternoon classes , or running a baby-sitter service so that young couples with children can come … has any Branch tried to recruit new members by advertising courses on child psychology at ante-natal clinics and infant welfare centres ? ’ . |
| 7 | It may mean entering into partnerships , like the joint venture we have in Malaysia and Singapore with Asia-Pacific Breweries , of which Heineken is a key partner , or the one we have with Jos Breweries in Nigeria , where Guinness , Harp and Malta Guinness will be brewed in the north of the country and sold to Guinness Nigeria . |
| 8 | It may mean learning an unfamiliar alphabet or a whole language . |
| 9 | Sometimes this may mean taking advantage of options offered by just one type of finance , sometimes it may mean combining different types of finance . |
| 10 | It may mean having to park in a car park , for example , rather than in a busy street where there are a lot of people passing by . |
| 11 | The answer may mean harsher timetabling , or it may mean reconsidering the school 's traditional use of its premises and their parts , but neither of these answers is impossible . |
| 12 | It may mean changing your own procedures , but if it also means changing your bank balance for the better it may be well worth it . |
| 13 | At the most it may mean giving up a job . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ Jolande wants me to be at the birth , so it may mean missing the Masters . |
| 15 | In many other cases it may be difficult to decide whether a signal is or is not deceptive ; but if the signal concerns something over which the animals are competing , it may evolve by an arms race of deception and the discovery of deception ; but if it concerns something over which the animals are co-operating , it may evolve to become more accurately informative . |
| 16 | It may involve getting our hands dirty and serving . |
| 17 | This action may take the form of letters and visits to MPs , ministers or newspapers , or it may involve going to meetings and speaking . |
| 18 | It may involve visiting several firms before you find the right one . |
| 19 | Any expression it may show arises solely through the inspired personality of a dancer who has mastered its technique . ’ |
| 20 | Normally the Bank operates in the markets at midday and 2.00 p.m. , but on days of very large shortages , it may offer to buy bills earlier in the day ( 9.45 a.m. ) as well . |
| 21 | It may hurt to hear accusing comments like this — for highly-charged emotions are often linked to equally-highly-charged events , or a series of events , from our past . |
| 22 | The reference to " or " such other risks should be amended to " and in addition to the foregoing " in order to make it clear that the landlord is not given the choice which of the stated risks it may choose to insure against — perhaps an obvious point but one worth making . |
| 23 | This ensures that the patient 's conscious mind is sufficiently relaxed to allow the subconscious to offer up whatever it may choose to reveal . |
| 24 | It may fail to explode |
| 25 | The golden age may be pre-Revolutionary , or it may fail to occur altogether , as it fails for plain Natasha in ‘ The Moon Came Out ’ . |
| 26 | for all sorts of reasons it may fail to fulfil its potential . |
| 27 | Give it a relaxing cup of coffee , and it may start inventing a brilliantly satirical speech for the next Sales Conference . |
| 28 | As the crack gets longer however these conditions are reversed and beyond the ‘ critical Griffith length ’ lg , the crack is producing more energy than it is consuming , so it may start to run away in an explosive manner . |
| 29 | Most of this form of DNA is confined to actively transcribed genes , where Rich speculates that it may function to keep an appropriate distance between successive molecules of RNA polymerase . |
| 30 | It is debatable whether the idea of prefixing other disciplines with the word geographical is indeed a sound one because it may tend to suggest a greater separation of physical geography endeavour from that of other researchers when in fact there is no clear distinction in methods or objectives . |