Example sentences of "[is] [conj] it may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger of this approach is that it may give the erroneous impression that companies are constantly embroiled in internecine strife , and that investors and creditors are habitually maltreated by dishonest or incompetent company controllers . |
| 2 | The most serious consequence of this initiative is that it may threaten the diagnosis and treatment of other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 3 | Since manufacture always has to be practised upon materials , its first implication is that it may show signs of the constraints these materials bring to the technological process ( Gombrich 1979 : 63–94 ) . |
| 4 | Another criticism of this strategy is that it may result in widely varying control requirements and pollution control expenditures for competing companies in regions of differing air quality . |
| 5 | One is that it may weaken the marriage by suggesting a ‘ failure ’ on the part of the husband . |
| 6 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 7 | The implication of this strong argument is that it may become cheaper in straightforward labour cost terms at the level of the economy to pay some people to stay at home while automated machinery produces the goods and services . |
| 8 | To at least some of its attackers this pattern must be intimidating and its value is that it may allow the cobra to repel its enemy without resorting to the use of its precious venom . |
| 9 | The real difficulty about this type of individual help is that it may provide immediate relief but not necessarily the understanding to cope with the same or similar situations in the future . |
| 10 | The difficulty with the argument is that it may provide a rogues ' charter . |
| 11 | As far as the marine conservation society is concerned , the tragedy is that it may have taken an ecological disaster to finally make people listen . |
| 12 | Another disadvantage of this type of competition is that it may look just a little too difficult and thus put off some of the would-be entrants . |