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 .
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