Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like a computer , it may lend credence to false data . |
| 2 | Like a computer , it may lend credence to false data . |
| 3 | The client will often be promising less than it hopes to be able to deliver : although it may exclude liability for defects in goods , the client will generally seek to deliver goods free from defects , in order to establish or maintain its commercial reputation and protect its trading relationships . |
| 4 | Bull , developing parallel Unix boxes with IBM , says it may license technology it developed for the EDS project to big blue . |
| 5 | Or , it may change position in the word , as in " I am fourteen " and " I have fourteen classmates " . |
| 6 | The information transmission will inevitably be two-way but the main purpose may be transmission from interviewer to interviewee as in an appraisal interview , from interviewee to interviewer as in an opinion survey , or it may change direction during the course of the interview as in a patient-doctor interview . |
| 7 | The interpretation put on these results was that the latter may have an optimum level which facilitates creativeness ; though beyond that point — as seen in the seriously psychotic — it may hamper creativity . |
| 8 | Article 86 prohibits the abuse of dominant market positions within the Common Market in so far as it may affect trade between member states : the fact that a business has a dominant or monopoly position is not in itself prohibited . |
| 9 | Article 86 provides that : any abuse by one or more undertakings of a dominant position within the common market or a substantial part of it shall be prohibited as incompatible with the common market insofar as it may affect trade between Member States . |
| 10 | It may involve role-play , or skills of presentation . |
| 11 | It is not clear why there should be such a high proportion of woodworking tools from Kent , especially the cemetery at Sarre beside the Wantsum Channel , but it may reflect ship-building and repairing as much as more general carpentry . |
| 12 | Second , that by impeding the market mechanism it may restrict consumer choice . |
| 13 | The irony of organizational control in a compliance system is that it may impede performance and efficiency at field level , where enforcement is a matter of negotiation and bargaining demanding the flexibility of high discretion . |
| 14 | It may represent humanity coming to terms with a godless world . |
| 15 | When it strikes the surface it may either rebound , thus repeating its motion , or it may start saltation in another sand grain by impact . |
| 16 | At maximum it may attain magnitude 5 , but at minimum it falls to below 12 . |
| 17 | It may give evidence of trade , since coins were used as objects of trade . |
| 18 | When oedema of the male genitalia occurs , it may give rise to the intriguingly-named ‘ saxophone penis ’ . |
| 19 | Secondly if the first question is answered affirmatively , it is necessary to consider whether there are any considerations which ought to negative , or to reduce or limit the scope of duty or the class of person to whom it is owed or the damages to which a breach of it may give rise . |
| 20 | The social acceptability of a disability may , therefore , be more important than the limitations it may give rise to . |
| 21 | Or it may give rise to a level of customer price-sensitivity which was hitherto absent in the target market segment . |
| 22 | This can be helpful to us but it may give rise to difficulties and require careful handling if the client 's writing skills leave something to be desired . |
| 23 | However , it may give rise to the necessity for a fairly sophisticated mathematical calculation if a conversion table is not published . |
| 24 | To take an obvious example , the drafter may draft the terms referring to the parties as 'seller " and " Buyer " ; if a clause is then incorporated from a different document , referring to " the Customer " , it may give rise to difficult questions of interpretation : prima facie it will be assumed that " the Buyer " and " the Customer " are different people . |
| 25 | It may give awareness of traffic and slamming doors but certainly will not respond to a skylark . |
| 26 | ‘ But it needs to be done , even though it may give offence to the French . ’ |
| 27 | But his conscience it may fail him and his heart it may give way , |
| 28 | On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B . |
| 29 | The demolition of a building does not of itself constitute development , though , of course , it may form part of a building operation , or lead to the making of a material change in the use of the land upon which it stood . |
| 30 | More than a period piece — it dates from 1924 — it may throw light on the view of marriage that led to Humanae Vitae . |