Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason to think it may is that the new agreements have turned national tariff-cutting programmes into international commitments . |
| 2 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 3 | The underlying question for a reader of criticism is what influences are exerted on the critic ; but as in this instance , for long it may be impossible to know the truth . |
| 4 | In the longer term , it may be something aesthetic will be seen in what was intended as pure politics . |
| 5 | You may say that it is feeble in colour and monotonous in tone — it may be so , but it touches the heart , it arrests the attention ; and what is the use of all your correct drawing and pure tints , and skill in light and shade , if your subject leaves me cold and unaffected . |
| 6 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 7 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 8 | Interpretation is allowed to copy what it finds , and to distort it , and it may be that the novel can be interpreted as an entertainment which conveys that doctrines of science and improvement ca n't encompass what happens in a frightening world , where motive is dark and ill-will ubiquitous . |
| 9 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 10 | And it may be that Justin , too , has more to say , from beyond the grave . |
| 11 | It may be that Larkin 's poem and the person we meet there participate in the ventriloquism of Amis 's novel . |
| 12 | Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die . |
| 13 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 14 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 15 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 16 | This tendency has no counterpart in Levi , and it may be doubtful whether it could live with the subject-matter of the camps . |
| 17 | It may be difficult , but it is not complicated , and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong . |
| 18 | Perhaps certain parts played in the past have not succeeded , and it may be possible to investigate why . |
| 19 | It may be that in the protestant — loyalist case this ethnic tendency may have priority over the British component of identity or be in conflict with it . |
| 20 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 21 | It may be too late for man though . |
| 22 | It may be an unpalatable thought , but we suspect that to an increasing degree throughout the 1990s brewers and conservationists will find themselves standing on the same side of the fence . |
| 23 | And while it may be that the tragic case of the disappearing baronet is one that appears to defy all logic , it is not a case that defies the world 's greatest detective . |
| 24 | It may be that I ca n't help , but … ’ |
| 25 | I 've had a rather difficult time of it of late and it may be affecting my attitude to people . ’ |
| 26 | In mild winters it may be necessary to chop down the leaves and dig in the roots in spring . |
| 27 | One of the problems with a sloping garden is that it may be overlooked by many other houses . |
| 28 | Finally , remember that if a cold front is due in the summer-time , it may be preceded by some hours by a line of unpredicted severe squalls and storms . |
| 29 | Judging by the number of trailer accidents on the motorways , it may be wiser to keep off them whenever possible . |
| 30 | It may be better just to concentrate on keeping straight , holding the wings level and getting the tail up as soon as possible , to reduce the wing 's angle of attack and so improve the aileron power . |