Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may train its advisers sufficiently to be able to give para-legal advice in those cases which do not require professional assistance ; it may refer the client to a solicitor ; it may arrange a rota scheme whereby a solicitor attends at the CAB office to see clients ; it may try to appoint its own solicitor . |
| 2 | The Burmese government has warned that it may place a ban on all exports of logs to Thailand , in the face of reports that some traders are exporting logs illegally . |
| 3 | Garden Jack Oil Patch Cleaner ( available from DIY stores and garden centres ) will remove the grease , but it may leave a stain . |
| 4 | Nevertheless their rebellion is paradoxical — it may mean a baby and a home and an income , but it also means exile from the culture of their own generation and the political resources available to the employed , respectable working class and its representatives . |
| 5 | For a monolingual speaker , it may mean a shift of style within what is perceived to be the same language . |
| 6 | It may involve a rejection of the idea of evolution altogether . |
| 7 | A fall in the interest rate on bonds , for example , will lead to an individual rearranging his wealth portfolio , but this will not necessarily involve a shift from bonds to money ( as in the Keynesian case ) ; it may involve a shift from bonds to some other financial asset or into property . |
| 8 | CAD gains dramatically when components have to be redrawn many times , when it may out-perform a human by 100 : 1 . |
| 9 | Within any one place , it may offer a host of different living spaces , especially within the roots , bark , branches , leaves , buds , and flowers of trees , of different species and at different heights . |
| 10 | It may represent a list of deities , a list of soldiers , or a discussion by a Hittite king of the building of the temple at Phaistos : all these suggestions have been put forward , though none of them has convinced even a quorum of scholars . |
| 11 | Alternatively , it may represent a subgroup of people with a genetically different cholesterol metabolism , which under particular dietary or environmental circumstances — for example a high fat , low fibre diet — would indirectly promote colon carcinogenesis . |
| 12 | Improving the security of your home wo n't do much to increase it 's value — but it may prevent a break-in . |
| 13 | It may prevent extraordinary powers , like that of compulsorily acquiring land , from being abused for unauthorized purposes ; it may prevent a corporation , constituted for purposes of public utility , from endangering those purposes by engaging in other activities ; it may protect the creditors of a company from the dissipation of the company 's capital , to which alone , in the case of a limited company , they can look for payment , and the members from seeing their contributions applied to purposes for which they did not bargain . |
| 14 | 7 Finally , it may spin a signal thread from the web ( which part ? ) to its hiding place ( where ? ) |
| 15 | Metformin lowers blood glucose not by an effect on insulin secretion but by inhibiting hepatic gluconeogenesis , possibly increasing peripheral low-affinity insulin receptors , and it may exert a postreceptor effect ( Lord et al , 1983 ; Lockwood et al , 1984 ) . |
| 16 | If the purpose of the annexation be for the better enjoyment of the object itself , it may remain a chattel , notwithstanding a high degree of physical annexation . |
| 17 | It may give a method for allocating resources in a situation like that described , but it is quite unclear how it could be used to allocate resources in general . |
| 18 | This is called pupillage , and arranging it may present a problem . |
| 19 | Carbon dioxide is consequently abundant in the atmosphere of soils , especially those characterized by high rates of organic activity ; it may reach a concentration of 10 per cent ( in comparison with 0.035 per cent in the free atmosphere ) . |
| 20 | Further , it may suggest a drift away from the shallow , light soils favoured in the early period to heavier soils which are more fertile and produce a greater yield per acre . |
| 21 | The rash may take one of several forms — it may mimic a host of rare and not so rare skin conditions . |
| 22 | Whilst many people have written to say that they found the letter itself to be interesting and factual , the view has also been forcefully expressed that the quotation on the envelope implies a view that rape is somehow wrong , and to be opposed , only or primarily insofar as it may reduce a woman 's chances of marriage . |
| 23 | It may reveal a relationship perceived by your mind-again , which may or may not be valid . |
| 24 | It may package a number of these restraints as a business format franchise , and charge a fee or a royalty , or some combination . |
| 25 | It may demonstrate a sense of outrage toward the criminal and the enjoyment of seeing the wrongdoer punished and justice being done , given that in the majority of crime stories and programmes the criminals come off worse . |
| 26 | And t and th then , since the paper talk , that 's right , it 's nothing to do with it , but it may have a bit to do with justice , we 'll get round to it in a bit . |
| 27 | Now , if , if a child sends a distress call to a certain level of intensity , it may get a certain amount back , but it may have a sibling who sends the distress call a slightly higher level of intensity and might get some more back . |
| 28 | The relative permeability may turn out to be a tensor ; it may take on very high values , say 106 or more , or it may have a value very close to unity , say 1.00002 for a wide range of temperatures , and then on cooling the material another few millidegrees unc may drop to zero . |
| 29 | Backwards and forwards the engine passes , increasing its load at each operation , until behind its tender it may have a string of vehicles more than two hundred yards in length with a brake van in the rear . |
| 30 | It may have a seed growing within it , or be empty . |