Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may at least be surmised that such a role was not envisaged for the CNAA by university representatives in the discussions which led to its being proposed and established' . |
| 32 | Although the reason for this is unclear , it may at least partly reflect the voltage sensitivity of the K + channels ( see Fig 3 ) . |
| 33 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 34 | Nevertheless , it may at points be untrustworthy . |
| 35 | Accordingly , it may at first sight seem advantageous to a landlord to grant such a tenancy . |
| 36 | Where this is not feasible , it may at least be possible to arrange for the experts to see the child together . |
| 37 | It may at first look like harmless fun . |
| 38 | Mrs Southey had asked Sarah to visit so they could ‘ talk over the American affair ’ , and it may by then have seemed inevitable to Sarah that she too would be carried on the Pantisocratic tide . |
| 39 | A sick horse has the same outline , and often the same slack mouth ; it may by only the slight tension around the nostril , or an unusual lack of interest in life , that indicate that anything is amiss . |
| 40 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 41 | Secondly , in designs where a 3D effect is required , it may in general be more effective to select the higher-toned timbers for background elements ( eg distant hills ) and keep dark-toned veneers for foreground work . |
| 42 | For , though the particular thing or phenomenon in whose cause we are interested is presented in experience as a unified whole , it may in fact have ‘ parts ’ into which it can be rationally analysed . |
| 43 | This is often regarded as a minor energy consumer , but it may in fact represent a significant proportion of the total electrical load in a laboratory . |
| 44 | As Hassan 's comment half-implies , it may in some areas be time for criticism to move on from the task of defining postmodernism in relation to its antecedents . |
| 45 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 46 | To talk of pacts and electoral agreements is much too ambitious at this stage , and it may in the end be impractical or unnecessary . |
| 47 | At home it may in some cases be the parents who notice something ‘ odd ’ about their baby 's eyes or feel an unease about the baby 's visual behaviour . |
| 48 | The whole approach then , though it may in helpful ways mitigate an authoritarian image of the male , does not change our understanding of women . |
| 49 | If on the other hand , the colony gets too cold , as it may in winter , the workers eat honey and use its energy to vibrate their flight muscles within their thorax without moving their wings , so generating body heat . |
| 50 | The decision of the Divisional Court in the Manchester Corporation case is not binding on this court and , although it may in the event have reached a conclusion with which I would now agree , I find the reasoning by which that conclusion was reached wholly unconvincing . |
| 51 | Although it is claimed that these cases indicate an impairment in executing symbolic gestures it may in fact be the case that this aspect of their difficulty is secondary to a deficit in dealing with sequences of movements in general , the apparent linguistic defect deriving from this ( Kimura , Battison and Lubert , 1976 ) . |
| 52 | In other respects it may in principle result in conduct which is wealth reducing overall , as where a company retains employees who on a strict cost/benefit analysis would be made redundant . |
| 53 | However , owners are under no compulsion to sell and although land may be identified for development , it may in fact remain undeveloped for many years . |
| 54 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 55 | In some countries it may in part be based on social/ethnic background . |
| 56 | Because you know both parties were there to make sure that er there was going to be a mutual agreement or it may in some instances be referred back to domestic level for resolution , or alternately , the employers just said , no and that , that was the end of it at that stage . |
| 57 | It may in some sales be appropriate to issue full details of the sale procedures with the Investment Overview . |
| 58 | The consensus is that the world is not yet ready for it , and it may in any case never be necessary . |
| 59 | My main concern is that in fact , it may in itself produce the , er , a diverse incentive . |
| 60 | The part of the procedure that it may in some cases be desirable to include will be a provision that the parties will disclose confidential documents or authorise production of documents by a third party ; see clause 2 of precedent 1 in Appendix A. |