Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , why the controlled group chooses to be compliant , or why it may choose to be resistant to any process of control , is also ignored . |
| 2 | Our huggable bunny may well be eaten by a fox , it may well be eaten by us , or it may start to be eaten by micro-organisms , die and be finished off by other microorganisms . |
| 3 | It may pay to be early at Catford where Dromina Duke looks the part in the second race . |
| 4 | It is not the unfettered giant that , tautly ready for a fierce ground war in the Gulf , it may appear to be . |
| 5 | Persuading people to a particular point of view is the essential aim of every public relations campaign , no matter how it may appear to be about products , concepts , policies , personalities , issues , or information and data . |
| 6 | ‘ Everyone should be particularly vigilant and report anything of a suspicious nature immediately , no matter how trivial it may appear to be , ’ said Beardall . |
| 7 | It may perhaps be questioned whether such restrictions were necessary , since a procession is capable of causing disruption whatever the purpose of those organising it may happen to be . |
| 8 | It may have to be accepted that recurrent brief admissions are a necessary part of the long-term care of such a patient . |
| 9 | The play may shock audiences ; it may have to be withdrawn or rewritten . |
| 10 | It may have to be less if we are rushed . |
| 11 | All types of a-v , museum , artefact and other stimulus material may be involved , and if it is not immediately available it may have to be purchased , borrowed or created . |
| 12 | If an expert clause is unclear , it may have to be clarified by the court . |
| 13 | He says that they mounted an undercover operation to get to the horse — it 's in such a bad way it may have to be put down . |
| 14 | It may need to be tailor-made , and therefore it 's best left to the experts . |
| 15 | However , if the unit is to be sited some considerable distance from the water supply , it may need to be thicker to prevent excessive voltage drop — loudspeaker wire , for example . |
| 16 | In such cases it may need to be supported at the level of verbal consciousness , and , like grieving as the gateway to reattachment , should not be prematurely foreclosed . |
| 17 | The point , once obvious , has ceased to be that , and it may need to be restated . |
| 18 | The product may be difficult to pack or it may need to be kept under refrigeration . |
| 19 | I am sure my husband would not mind if your daughter came but it may need to be the ( comfortable ) sofa for a night ! |
| 20 | Time-sociology ( or chronosociology as it may come to be called ) has many dimensions to it . |
| 21 | All those sublime thoughts , which tower above the clouds , and reach as high as Heaven itself , take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders , in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with , it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas , which Sense or Reflection , have offered . |
| 22 | This introduction to a scene and the gradual unfolding of the action within it may seem to be a rather academic restriction on the freedom of the cameraman , but it is a most important movie-making technique because it gives the viewer the feeling of involvement as a participant in the exploration of the location . |
| 23 | Given these fears and the imminence of their object , it may seem to be rather worse than fiddling while Rome burns to raise in a series of lectures on law and disarmament that essay-worn jurisprudential topic ‘ is international law really law ? ’ . |
| 24 | You and I have got a job , as Christians , to help to point people to the right way , narrow and difficult though it may seem to be . |
| 25 | It may prove to be Margaret Thatcher 's most lasting contribution to her party , for it is changing it irrevocably . |
| 26 | It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory . |
| 27 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 28 | It may prove to be restrictive unless used very flexibly . |
| 29 | In the average home sized aquarium it may prove to be necessary to isolate a particularly large specimen as the risk of losing other fish from predation and poor water quality will be high . |
| 30 | If there is an existing pipe organ and it is of good quality , it may prove to be more economical in the long run to restore rather than replace it . |