Example sentences of "it [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its usefulness overstated , its flexibility limited , it may even increase teacher workload , despite claims to the contrary . |
| 2 | Indeed , Tivoli says it may even adopt SOM as a subset of its own future offerings . |
| 3 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 4 | And it may also demand analysis of the constructions that a word may appear in , for instance , that a verb like want can be followed by the term for what is wanted , as in I want that block ; or by a clause , as in I want him to come here . |
| 5 | The mass media too are concerned essentially with communicating , usually giving information although it may also involve exchange in the form of readers ' letters to a newspaper or phone-in programmes on radio . |
| 6 | It may also involve comparison with other professions and other occupations and not just with rewards within the organisation . |
| 7 | It may also mean freedom to purchase ‘ Playboy ’ magazine , to indulge in the vulgarities of verbal and visual displays of the sexual and sexist types , though at a much lower level than those current in Scotland or England at soccer matches and in public houses . |
| 8 | It may also waste time and energy ; it may be unproductive ; it may lead to hostility and to low morale . |
| 9 | It may also bring security and improvement in their lifestyle , if they or their family have n't been able to care for them properly . |
| 10 | It may also shed light on the standards required for British firms who wish to act as subcontractors to the many Japanese foreign investors in Britain and Europe . |
| 11 | While this may be a means of sharing responsibilities and caring , it may also give rise to tensions in overcrowded households . |
| 12 | Some forceful pushing may help get through a barrier , but it may also produce dependency on me to keep pushing . |
| 13 | It may also comprehend information obtained in a different capacity prior to the commencement of the relationship . |
| 14 | Fatally , it may also lose interest in talking to the vulgar herd outside . |
| 15 | It may off it may also take time for farmers to acquire the skills necessary in order to increase , or to use , to adopt this technology . |
| 16 | In a decade 's time , it may well show rock videos — and perhaps ‘ Miss Saigon ’ . |
| 17 | erm Now , perhaps we come back to what can we do at this end , and I think Friends of the Earth has done an excellent job in bringing it to peoples ' attention that large areas of tropical forest are being destroyed at roughly the rate of 0.7 or 0.8 percent of the forest each year , erm and they , you know I 'm in agreement with them on the fact that forest is disappearing , it 's dangerous in many places , it 's catastrophic in some , for instance , particularly in West Africa , the clearing that 's gone on in the Ivory Coast is pretty disastrous , and erm there are indications that the West African strip of forest along the strip of the West African Coast by removing that you 're going to make not only that area slightly drier , but mainly the northern areas of those countries , and the drier , so it may well affect climate . |
| 18 | It may well take time for the church planting team to see fruit of this kind . |
| 19 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 20 | In the long term , should the change be approved , it may well reduce controversy on the court , but there will probably be any amount of controversy in the run up to any such potential change , not least because it affects all of us , you , me … and them , the professionals . |
| 21 | It may temporarily enhance production but may not be real progress in the second language . |
| 22 | It may soon add biotechnology to this list . |
| 23 | Doubtless this means the end of straight arithmetical calculation , but it may still make sense to speak of informed judgements as to which patterns of pleasurable experience form more pleasurable lives . |
| 24 | At the same time it should be noted that if the description does not sound in contract , it may still have effect as a misrepresentation. ( c ) Exclusion of description requirement In the Harlingdon Ltd case it was argued , at first instance , that there was an actual usage or custom in the London art market which excluded the application of s13 . |
| 25 | Occasionally the fungus can ensconce itself in the terminal portion of the urethra , and it may then give rise to symptoms similar to those found in non-specific urethritis . |
| 26 | Obviously , such a current can not affect the transport of material in the swash zone , but it may greatly help transport by saltation and suspension in the breaker zone . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it may conceivably cause liver disease if taken over a long period , and this is to be tested by administering it to pigs . |
| 28 | It may often form part of a series , although history teachers need not be tied to utilising the whole series . |
| 29 | It should also prevent bone damage . |
| 30 | It should also throw light on how lack of response to iron treatment points to the need for further colonic assessment . |