Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | It may of course be a partner who is the one who needs caring for . |
2 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
3 | ‘ It may of course be perfectly proper for the court to put on the Act an interpretation different from that intended by the framers of it . |
4 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
5 | It may of course be used in other applications requiring high levels of compression , possibly using conventional hard discs or other magnetic media , but currently it remains most significant in relation to CD-ROM systems . |
6 | It may of course lead to a greater use of the concept of collateral warranties than has hitherto been necessary . |
7 | it 's probably , it , it may of been up to three years |
8 | so erm er or indeed it may be if , if you ask him or if you ask in the general office it may of erm tt it may have it may have been marked by now and so er |
9 | It may of been when between there |
10 | Our local representative will make every effort possible to allocate separate beds when this is particularly requested but it may on occasion be impossible . |
11 | This is challenged by Hart who suggests that , far from simply being an example of the law enforcing a moral principle — for example the sanctity of human life — it may on the other hand ‘ perfectly well be explained as a piece of paternalism , designed to protect individuals against themselves ’ . |
12 | Relatively inexpensive , it may on the one hand inspire confidence in the wearer and on the other act as a tactile reminder that he/she has a bad knee . |
13 | However , what an owner sees as his due rights may be seen by others as undue privilege ; and where the general interest is material enough to insist on the second alternative , it may with whatever necessary degree of consideration and justice , seek to override the first . |
14 | It may for a moment seem to quench but it dehydrates , as purportedly healthy abstainers are forever telling me . |
15 | If the answer to that question can not be verbalised succinctly then the meeting must have served some purpose other than the interchange of information fields ( it may for example have had a social value or a " credit " assessment value ) . |
16 | Now it may for the game that if he can cover the square number twelve , he will score more points than if he covers the square with the nine . |
17 | before before the meeting proper may I refer you to first of all the voice amplification system is currently working but er there are some difficulties with it and it may during the day deteriorate to a state that it is more trouble than it 's worth . |
18 | It was recorded as a fulling mill , although it may at least in part have been a grist mill . |
19 | The energies required to probe the nucleus are therefore high , so it may at first seem surprising that visible light with its moderate energies can reveal important information about the nucleus . |
20 | This is not at all the simple task that it may at first seem : we shall see that considerable care must be taken in interpreting the official statistics on unemployment . |
21 | The idea of ‘ accidentally sparkling ’ Champagne is far more plausible than it may at first seem . |
22 | ‘ In the mind ’ is therefore a more complex term than it may at first seem . |
23 | Although it may at first feel as though you will always be the new member of staff , or that you will never stop asking questions , most returners express appreciation and gratitude for the support and practical help offered by colleagues , and for the warm welcome extended to them on their return . |
24 | While anger may stimulate the courage to do something , it may at the same time cloud the perception of what to be courageous about . |
25 | Quine 's response is instructive , although it may at first seem dismissive . |
26 | It may at first be limited to one target group ( for example , secondary school teachers ) and one or two different media ( e.g. press and radio ) . |
27 | Even while the system remains capitalist it may at different phases be dominated by differently organized social and economic structures . |
28 | Moreover , it may at any time be varied or revoked by an ordinary resolution even if that involves an alteration of the articles . |
29 | We shall see that although the uncertainty principle places limitations on the accuracy of all our predictions , it may at the same time remove the fundamental unpredictability that occurs at a space-time singularity . |
30 | Thus an ordinary adjective like that underlined in ( 18 ) : ( 18 ) the black parrot soared up through the jungle cover certainly may be restrictive — there may be other parrots of other colours which do no such thing — but it may at least as easily be intended non-restrictively . |