Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If money is short while the patient is ill , there is great pressure on the carer and the family , and often it may mean that the patient is unable to receive the specialist rehabilitation treatment which is increasingly difficult to obtain under the National Health Service . |
| 2 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
| 3 | At one extreme , it may mean that the world will not contain an example of any single human being doing that thing ; at the other end , it may merely mean that if a group of human beings adopt a norm requiring that behaviour , the norm will often be broken , its observance will give rise to a good deal of anxiety , those who comply without anxiety to the norm will be unusual in other respects , and so forth . |
| 4 | It may appear that the UK bank has now given away $10 000 of its own money , the money really is held in the name of the UK bank . |
| 5 | With Chernenko 's departure from the scene , it may appear that the immobilistes have lost their final defence . |
| 6 | When the future seems to be filled with storm clouds , it may appear that the Church has no other recourse but to batten down the hatches and attempt to ride the storm . |
| 7 | Looking at the figures for manufacturing job loss alongside the figures for employment gain in the services , it may appear that the labour shed from manufacturing industries has been absorbed by the service industries . |
| 8 | At first sight , it may appear that the value of aggregate demand for a country should be the same as its national expenditure . |
| 9 | It may appear that the dependence thesis entails the no difference thesis , but this is not the case . |
| 10 | Before 1994 , the suggested date for introducing reforms , it may decide that the change is not worth the political and administrative pain . |
| 11 | It may happen that the child is so naughty that it ends up never being rewarded for the desirable behaviour . |
| 12 | It may happen that the indifference curve is tangent to the c 1 c 2 frontier at G ( the golden rule ) , but in general we would expect to find a situation such as P in Fig. 8–3 where ( as drawn ) . |
| 13 | After a while , it may emerge that the man 's experience and the woman 's experience of that closeness are somehow very different . |
| 14 | Where the court refuses to make an order on an ex parte application it may direct that the application be made inter partes . |
| 15 | But it may imply that the kind of Protestant spirituality , for which the term puritan is commonly used , was not the only catalyst for the expansion of science . |
| 16 | If he does , it may signify that the cheek has become sore and the teeth need attention . |
| 17 | However , it may transpire that the result for the Estate Agents ' text is somewhat unrepresentative . |
| 18 | Erm so , and we will do that now but I mean it may transpire that the employer might say no to paid time off er for the people who are on days as , as well as |
| 19 | It may order that the decision shall not have effect pending appeal or that the care or supervision order shall remain in force for the appeal period but subject to the court 's directions ( s40(3) ) . |
| 20 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |
| 21 | It may Lie that the sale of cigarettes for the same purpose to a working men 's club is a consumer sale . |
| 22 | It may indicate that the design is based on one traditionally associated with that name , but the dealer may simply be trying to make the rug seem more interesting by calling it something other than just " Chinese " . |
| 23 | In retrospect it may seem that the trend was already irresistible — the First World War certainly made it so — but who is to say that a positive imperial policy pursued energetically in 1902 or 1912 was inevitably doomed to failure ? |
| 24 | Certainly scientists and fifth-formers are not working in identical circumstances or in identical ways , and it may seem that the objective has been over-simplified or exaggerated . |
| 25 | Although it may seem that the developments were exclusively within geomorphology this was not the case , because environmental reconstruction was increasingly shown to be dependent upon knowledge of the ways in which the soils and sediments as well as the surface morphology related to past systems of vegetation and to patterns of climate . |
| 26 | Although it may seem that the establishment of a foreign subsidiary exposes a firm to many of the risks which licensing minimises , a venture of this kind may offer the greatest potential . |
| 27 | At first glance it may seem that the TPS in Mid Glamorgan has become diluted as more and more time is spent on other partnership activities . |
| 28 | It may seem that the movement just discernible towards " spirituality " would be wholly to the benefit of religion , yet it is not necessarily so . |
| 29 | If it should rule that the president 's actions were unconstitutional it would be a big step toward his impeachment by Congress . |
| 30 | Before the ‘ competent authority ’ sanctions any release into the environment it should stipulate that the releaser has to take out an insurance policy that will cover it for any consequential damage to the environment and necessary clean-up operations . |