Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may have a duty to inform the public about the misconduct of a candidate for election , but only in newspapers which circulate in the candidate 's constituency . |
| 32 | that it may entail a level of expertise that makes lay scrutiny difficult ; |
| 33 | It may impose a fine of up to £2000 ( unless the Statute creating the offence provides otherwise ) and a maximum term of six months ' imprisonment on any one charge ( and a maximum of twelve months where the person is charged with more than one offence triable ‘ either way ’ , e.g. theft ) . |
| 34 | It may accept a submission with or without qualification , or it may recommend that it should be not proceeded with in the current session . |
| 35 | More commonly it may afford a transferee who , in reliance on the transferor 's share certificate , has bought what he believed , wrongly , to be fully-paid shares a defence if the company makes a call upon him . |
| 36 | Like study of the forest , it may take a generation to quantify the effect on fish stock . |
| 37 | It may take a couple more hundred years , a thousand , but we will get there . |
| 38 | It may take a couple of minutes , since one arm is temporarily out of order . |
| 39 | It may take a bit of imagination for , for some of the , some of you but what do you think ? |
| 40 | But , like showbusiness , it may take a year before EuroDisney polishes up its act . |
| 41 | This can be a struggle and it may take a while , but as we see all the time among those around us , identity can be achieved , and with tremendous satisfaction and eventual rewards . |
| 42 | It may take a while before the clients cotton on to what is happening . |
| 43 | I want to have you about the house because I brought you a little souvenir from New York , only it may take a while to get it out of my suitcase . |
| 44 | It may take a stake in the venture . |
| 45 | The increasing emphasis on capital projects within an annual budgetary cycle creates problems in that it may take a number of years to acquire and to develop urban sites . |
| 46 | It will be a tight , hard game and perhaps it may take a replay before a decision is arrived at . |
| 47 | It may take a week or two . |
| 48 | Less acceptable is the term ‘ general purpose detergent ’ as it may imply a capability not warranted by such a product . |
| 49 | ‘ It may interest a collector of stories to frighten children , ’ said Holmes . |
| 50 | If it is extremely fortunate , it may become a double-suckler by finding a female whose pup has just died and who is still producing milk . |
| 51 | When used to account for anthropological observation , it may become a series of mechanical and inflexible models . |
| 52 | ‘ It may look a mess in them stables but it 's all in here , ’ Stanley said , pointing to his brain . |
| 53 | A music group adds to the variety of music used in worship and it may help a congregation to experiment and explore new possibilities . |
| 54 | And it may see a child as a foal , and may not find it as intimidating or threatening as a mature person . |
| 55 | It may see a man as it would a stallion , and regard him as the Big Boss . |
| 56 | It may see a woman as a bossy mare , and best to be avoided . |
| 57 | On the other hand , rumours are that it may launch a computing supplement under the Budapest Week name . |
| 58 | " This Meeting having taken into Consideration the State of the Island as to Grain & provisions , until the next Crop comes on , are of opinion that with economy , there may be neither in the Island , what is sufficient for the Support of the Inhabitants , but if any Grain or putatoes are exported from the Island , that it may endanger a scarcity … " and they are " to use their utmost exertions for preventing any of the Grain of the Island being destroy 'd by Illegal Distillers … " |
| 59 | One essay may have both first-class and abysmal features and yet be graded neither A nor F ; instead it may get a C which fails altogether in letting us know that it differs from another essay graded C which is consistently of that quality in all its parts . |
| 60 | Neither of these situations is in itself damaging , except that it may produce a denial of the actual preferred functioning of the child . |