Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may mean being anti-social at times , but that is too bad . |
| 2 | It may mean being courageous and seeing your doctor about that lump , this discharge , that very private symptom — but do it ! |
| 3 | If you had difficulty with this one , it may have been due to sexual stereotyping — i. |
| 4 | It may have been crucial . |
| 5 | For this reason it may have been spurious but worth further study . |
| 6 | It may have been necessary for Jesus to have eaten a few fishes in order to survive in first-century Palestine , but it is not now necessary to feast on the bodies of dead animals in order to be healthy . |
| 7 | While the excavation was in progress , it may have been possible to wash some of the finds and mark each one with a code indicating where it was found : this task has to be completed before any further work can be done . |
| 8 | ( It may have been simple retaliation — he had been mildly reprimanded by the guardians for allowing an unqualified assistant to attend a midwifery case as his deputy earlier that year , and had been instructed to provide the name of a legally qualified locum . ) |
| 9 | On the other hand , it may have been indicative of the increased regulation that went along with this . |
| 10 | It may have been preferable to issue the national curriculum documents as guidelines , templates of good practice against which schools could evaluate their extant curriculum rather than requirements that have to be met . |
| 11 | Hence it may have been endothermic . |
| 12 | Police say it may have been unoccupied , and no-one else is thought to have been injured . |
| 13 | What he actually said , in a Commons debate about teachers ' pay , was that the shadow education spokesman was a ‘ silly woman ’ a comment as inaccurate as it may have been offensive . |
| 14 | It may have been complete rubbish , but that 's what I felt . ’ |
| 15 | It may have been different if Arsenal were top of the table but they 're not . |
| 16 | It may have been painful but she got things moving . |
| 17 | A computer error ( or , to be fair , it may have been human error ) caused me accidentally to ‘ erase ’ the disc containing Chapter 3 . |
| 18 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 19 | It may have been costly , but those in charge say they had little choice . |
| 20 | Well , it may have been true , but , since receiving her letter , I know there was another reason . |
| 21 | It may have been revolting but the effect was wonderful . |
| 22 | In part perhaps it was a translation of the Old English ‘ Bretwalda ’ , a title attributed to the high kings of the island from very early days ; in part it may have been direct imitation of Byzantium . |
| 23 | And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game . |
| 24 | It may have been inevitable that the fringes of Labour and the Nationalists would intersect in the aftermath of the election . |
| 25 | It may have been idyllic to some but evidently not to the people who lived as close to the land as James Seely did . |
| 26 | Staff said they could n't afford the time to supervise him constantly.But although it may have been convenient to social workers to restrain a stroke victim in a trolley , Peter Chandler has one word to describe the experience : |
| 27 | That it may have been difficult for members to attend area sessions , should not rule out the possibility of encouraging collaboration among groups of local boards . |
| 28 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 29 | That 's what I meant about the meta-metal , if you took it back to metal you could n't make up a page like your upper and lower case with a big R , unless you spent three years chiselling and fitting the thing , but somehow it looks as if it ought to have been possible to have done it in metal because that 's where it took its springboard from . |
| 30 | But with hindsight , it ought to have been obvious . |