Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may last no more than six months . |
| 32 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 33 | This is a shame since it may relegate the service to purely commercial outlets , such as flying schools and airfields who will doubtless find it very useful if someone persuades them to take a look . |
| 34 | It may evaporate into the air , or , after passing through the sewage plant , will enter rivers and seas via sewage outflow pipes . |
| 35 | The superoxide generated may have a direct cytotoxic effect or it may interact with inflammatory mediators to modify the inflammatory process . |
| 36 | In the short term , it may upset established practices . |
| 37 | The next letter from Miller , dated 2 February 1756 , acknowledged three from Bartram and two boxes of plants and he added ‘ To the first of your letters , I returned an answer in September last , but for fear it may miscarry , I beg leave to repeat the substance of that here . ’ |
| 38 | Bull , developing parallel Unix boxes with IBM , says it may license technology it developed for the EDS project to big blue . |
| 39 | The issue of equities , although it may improve the creditworthiness of the company , will also reduce the gearing ( leverage ) in its financing mix and also reduce the tax-shield effect of interest payments due to debt holders , thus lowering the potential rate of return to the owners . |
| 40 | Other areas where it may break down are areas of high biological activity for example tropical reef flats very high biological activity there , very high demand for calcium carbonate to build all those coral skeletons , so carbonate will be stripped out . |
| 41 | In some cases cultivation maintains a good soil structure , while in others it may break it down , and what constitutes a ‘ good ’ soil structure may depend upon its mineral composition and upon the use to which it is put . |
| 42 | Do not touch the outline or it may break open , and avoid air bubbles forming , as these will spoil the smooth , sheer surface of the icing — if they do occur , prick with a cocktail stick . |
| 43 | It follows that co-operative R&D is likely to raise total R&D spending if participants produce complementary products , and it may lower it if they produce substitute products . |
| 44 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 45 | So guide the United Nations that by word and deed it may promote your glory and establish peace and goodwill among the peoples of the world . |
| 46 | Most experts are hard pushed to explain why normal , healthy people should not take E. Some suggest that it may promote Parkinson 's disease — after all , the symptoms are fairly similar : short-term memory loss , the shakes , jaw-ache and constant chewing . |
| 47 | If you remove the castle and the only place left for the Synodontis is under the heater , it may burn itself — something to be avoided at all costs . |
| 48 | Or it may dissolve away itself ? |
| 49 | But it is possible it may change its strategy . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |
| 52 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 53 | On the other hand , it may change financial reporting practice because of what it represents in the continuing controversies about professional self-regulation . |
| 54 | Or , it may change position in the word , as in " I am fourteen " and " I have fourteen classmates " . |
| 55 | In terms of product development , HDTV may not have profound implications but it may change some design factors . |
| 56 | This has the particular advantage of avoiding possible political problems that may have occurred if a more radical strategy had been adopted , because the workplace and working relationships will probably remain intact , although the roles of the employees in it may change . |
| 57 | It may change gradually over time , as indeed may the level of damages generally . |
| 58 | If we pick up the leg of a horse that is not used to it , it may tolerate it for a second or two , and then snatch it back from us . |
| 59 | The obligation to state reasons , being contained in the Treaty , is a basic requirement , and failure to comply with it may invalidate the instrument concerned . |
| 60 | When this occurs in the great blood vessels it may result in loss of the normal damping mechanism of the cardiac output due to the relative inelasticity of these vessels . |