Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | although through speculating about the role of the unobservable ‘ anticipated reactions ’ of one actor to another or considering the values and interests which failed to emerge in the policy making process , it may entertain the possibility of hidden power processes its main weakness may be that it is a description rather than an analysis of power relationships . |
| 2 | In a particularly perverse mood it may assume the shape of a naked man flapping a white sheet , or a chanting girl , or a giant , singing white cat . |
| 3 | Bogwood is semi-fossilised , and should not contain harmful substances , but it may stain the water dark brown . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is a shame since it may relegate the service to purely commercial outlets , such as flying schools and airfields who will doubtless find it very useful if someone persuades them to take a look . |
| 6 | The issue of equities , although it may improve the creditworthiness of the company , will also reduce the gearing ( leverage ) in its financing mix and also reduce the tax-shield effect of interest payments due to debt holders , thus lowering the potential rate of return to the owners . |
| 7 | The obligation to state reasons , being contained in the Treaty , is a basic requirement , and failure to comply with it may invalidate the instrument concerned . |
| 8 | He says it may cost the council a lot , but they 're only acting as guarantor . |
| 9 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | First , it may explain the meaning of the word " miscarriage " used in the nineteenth century cases for mistake and , secondly , it raises the public policy issue discussed in Chapter 17 . |
| 12 | Garden Jack Oil Patch Cleaner ( available from DIY stores and garden centres ) will remove the grease , but it may leave a stain . |
| 13 | Equally , if a real photon collides with an atom , it may move an electron from an orbit nearer the nucleus to one farther away . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For a monolingual speaker , it may mean a shift of style within what is perceived to be the same language . |
| 16 | It may mean the detention of innocent people and indeed their imprisonment . |
| 17 | This is written in the full realisation that it may mean the end of a beautiful friendship — knowing how resolutely Edith shuns public acclaim . |
| 18 | It may affect the top of the scale but it 's certainly not most of it Yeah , when it becomes desperate , ok ? |
| 19 | On a large number of matches the extra few fish that this may put in their net will not make any difference between winning or losing , but it may affect the deficit or margin by which they win or lose . |
| 20 | For example , it is probably important in relation to educational or occupational choices ; it may affect the nature of the marriage relationship , and also , very possibly , the way in which a mother brings up her daughters . |
| 21 | Chapter 12 contains summaries of the regulatory material presently in force so far as it may affect the running of the partnership business . |
| 22 | It may involve a rejection of the idea of evolution altogether . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It may involve the use of mechanical aids , such as eye-glasses , or the conversion of one medium into another , for example , the production of ‘ talking books ’ . |
| 25 | It may involve the use of relevant historic documents . |
| 26 | It may involve the agency 's casting team ( which may be a specialist in a large agency , but is usually the creative group head and the TV producer in a small one ) in seemingly endless poring over directories of actors , and actually seeing a large number of them before a decision can be made . |
| 27 | This may be a simple oversight on the part of the authors of the pamphlet , or it may reflect the thought that since those who attend these colleges would have committed themselves to staying at them until they were 18 ( and such a commitment would be a condition of entry ) , there would be no need for them to take a ‘ school-leaving ’ examination at 16+ . |
| 28 | It may reflect the thought that although we do not aim at the ‘ truth ’ — i.e. our immediate aims are for simple solutions to empirical problems — nevertheless , the truth is what we end up with . |
| 29 | The popular image of the ‘ welfare ’ removing children , however well it may reflect the service given by social services in the eyes of its recipients and of ratepayers , is only a pale reflection of the legal obligations on public authorities . |
| 30 | This is a fairy story version of race relations and it may reflect the hubris or wishful thinking of an intelligentsia which sets up its own preferred cultural practices as a referential model for everyone else . |