Example sentences of "it [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may of course be a partner who is the one who needs caring for . |
| 2 | It may of course turn out that there are after all good independent reasons for respecting the intuitive judgements which come from long experience . |
| 3 | ‘ It may of course be perfectly proper for the court to put on the Act an interpretation different from that intended by the framers of it . |
| 4 | Example ( 3 ) ( d ) , for instance , would be an abbreviated form of a structure that could perhaps be realized more fully as : ( 26 ) our lawyer sent the packages ; the packages are registered It may of course be claimed that we should think in terms not of actual clauses but of some more hypothetical and abstract clause ; maybe the last five words in ( 26 ) should be replaced by something like : ( 27 ) [ subject the package plural ] subject be registered |
| 5 | It may of course be used in other applications requiring high levels of compression , possibly using conventional hard discs or other magnetic media , but currently it remains most significant in relation to CD-ROM systems . |
| 6 | It may of course lead to a greater use of the concept of collateral warranties than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 7 | Our local representative will make every effort possible to allocate separate beds when this is particularly requested but it may on occasion be impossible . |
| 8 | If the answer to that question can not be verbalised succinctly then the meeting must have served some purpose other than the interchange of information fields ( it may for example have had a social value or a " credit " assessment value ) . |
| 9 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , it may at points be untrustworthy . |
| 11 | In other respects it may in principle result in conduct which is wealth reducing overall , as where a company retains employees who on a strict cost/benefit analysis would be made redundant . |
| 12 | If on the other hand , the colony gets too cold , as it may in winter , the workers eat honey and use its energy to vibrate their flight muscles within their thorax without moving their wings , so generating body heat . |
| 13 | It may in part be a function of the teacher 's own practices , and when this is so an analysis of his or her use of time , from the broad organizational strategies right down to the minutiae of moment-to-moment interactions with the children , could help both in creating more time and in making for a more effective and efficient context for learning . |
| 14 | In some countries it may in part be based on social/ethnic background . |
| 15 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
| 16 | For , though the particular thing or phenomenon in whose cause we are interested is presented in experience as a unified whole , it may in fact have ‘ parts ’ into which it can be rationally analysed . |
| 17 | This is often regarded as a minor energy consumer , but it may in fact represent a significant proportion of the total electrical load in a laboratory . |
| 18 | Although it is claimed that these cases indicate an impairment in executing symbolic gestures it may in fact be the case that this aspect of their difficulty is secondary to a deficit in dealing with sequences of movements in general , the apparent linguistic defect deriving from this ( Kimura , Battison and Lubert , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | However , owners are under no compulsion to sell and although land may be identified for development , it may in fact remain undeveloped for many years . |
| 20 | It is what is called a classical theory ; that is , it does not take account of the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics , as it should for consistency with other theories . |
| 21 | It should at present , therefore , be reserved for those cases I outlined , where long-term anticoagulation is indicated . |
| 22 | ( It should of course have none , these are permitted spurious pixels due to odd effects , e.g. dust motes . ) |
| 23 | Taking the major subject-areas of sociology , such as those listed above , it should in theory be possible to chart the areas in which women are most invisible . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) Because of the exemption for anything done in pursuance of a scheme of arrangement under s153(3) ( e ) , it should in theory be possible for financial assistance proposed to be provided as part of the Court Scheme to be implemented immediately ( because the target is bound by the scheme when it becomes effective ) without the need to wait for the target to be re-registered as a private company and the private company exemption procedure followed . |
| 25 | In all fairness it must of course also be said that people who are familiar with Christian orders of service find this same collection of words extremely comforting and helpful precisely because they are familiar and mean a great deal to them . |
| 26 | However , to be interpreted as full frame , full motion video , it must of course be decompressed and the decompression has to take place in real time , while the application is running . |
| 27 | It must of course be realised that any funding organisation may wish to appoint their own solicitor to handle the case , particularly if a trade union is involved , but as always , the client 's interests must come first . |
| 28 | By providing an intellectual framework through which people interpret reality and understand history it must of necessity shape our culture . |
| 29 | The author of the Vindiciae similarly asserts that since " none were ever born with crowns on their heads and sceptres in their hands , and [ since ] no man can be a king by himself , nor reign without a people … it must of necessity follow , that kings were at first constituted by the people . " |
| 30 | When you look at maps of the Dales , particularly the new 1 to 25,000 series , you can read in the patterns on the landscape and the names given to settlements and landforms , the intricate story , incomplete as it must of necessity be , of the pageant of life in the upland valleys . |