Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be to enable a moving vehicle to draw electric power while it runs along rails , the innovation that made possible the electric streetcar . |
| 2 | The material is impounded until the expiry of the ordinary time within which an appeal may be instituted , after which it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of . |
| 3 | Some Tory MPs feel the discount is not large enough : after consultation , it may be increased . |
| 4 | Overcoming the legacy of chronically low-trust industrial relations is necessarily a slow process , though it may be accelerated by the localization of aspects of industrial bargaining through the 1985 agreement . |
| 5 | The hotel 's owners are furious that they were n't told it may be listed . |
| 6 | The greater the variety of non-academic and pre-vocational examinations there are on offer , the easier it may be to progress in this direction . |
| 7 | It will incorporate the functionality of Windows for Workgroups , and will include its own native 32-bit file system and device drivers integrated with a Windows kernel so that it will not technically require MS-DOS to run , although it may be packaged so that MS-DOS 7.0 , which will also include the 32-bit features , has to be installed first . |
| 8 | It will incorporate the functionality of Windows for Workgroups , and will include its own native 32-bit file system and device drivers integrated with a Windows kernel so that it will not technically require MS-DOS to run , although it may be packaged so that MS-DOS 7.0 , which will also include the 32-bit features , has to be installed first . |
| 9 | Later still , it may be dissociated from this role and used for general storage , in which case its previous specific symbolic role is ignored , and it is no longer of consequence whether its ritual status accords with that of its contents ( Miller 1985 : 172–83 ) . |
| 10 | It may be pointed out , however , that in both cases the extension beyond the horizon is not unique . |
| 11 | It may be achieved through complex processes of individualization in effort-related bonus systems . |
| 12 | It may be to destroy them all and there are situations where that can happen . |
| 13 | It may be catching . |
| 14 | She can enjoy the last freedom to be as she is ; her pursuits may seem strange , but after her death it may be discovered that her treasured collection — of old cups , pressed flowers , or newspaper cuttings — is quite priceless . |
| 15 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 16 | Companies have got the directive weakened , but worry that it may be beefed up again . |
| 17 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
| 18 | For example , by looking at a pot , it may be suspected that it has not been thrown on a wheel but has been made from coils of clay , joined together and smoothed by hand to form the wall of the pot . |
| 19 | It may be suspected that issues on which there would be widespread local resistance , but where a party political split is not clearly in evidence , rarely hit the news headlines because they are quietly negotiated in private discussions between the minister , or civil servants , and the local authority associations . |
| 20 | Indeed , it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces , as feelings do in dreams , the whole system of associated beliefs which make up the body of mystic doctrine . ’ |
| 21 | However there were indications yesterday that it may be limited to proposals as to how the two would cooperate if they were ordered to combine their efforts by the NATO European Fighter Management Agency , which is responsible for purchasing the system . |
| 22 | However there were indications yesterday that it may be limited to proposals as to how the two would cooperate if they were ordered to combine their efforts by the NATO European Fighter Management Agency , which is responsible for purchasing the system . |
| 23 | It may be limited by shares or by guarantee , or it may be unlimited . |
| 24 | Thus even in a situation where Creole is permitted , none may in fact be spoken — or if it is , it may be limited to ritualised tokens such as the tags man , guy and star , which , though they lie within the boundaries of the folk concept " Patois " are best seen as part of the language of black-influenced youth culture . |
| 25 | It may be felt that replacing two straight cores with a ring structure is too drastic a change to gloss over , but the mechanism is not too different in the two cases . |
| 26 | Similarly , although it may be felt necessary for children to have some understanding of violence ( trench warfare ; personal violence ; the physical , visual , and verbal violence of city life ) , one would wish children to be spared the direct experience of it . |
| 27 | It may be felt that , when used with care , the maximin approach adequately reflects a conservative philosophy of decision-making . |
| 28 | Physical abuse is not known to be extensive and it may be felt that it has been excessively discussed in the context of ‘ dependence and independence ’ . |
| 29 | It may be felt desirable to inform guests that one party was previously a devoted husband or wife , a widow or widower , who after years of loneliness should be congratulated on at last having found happiness again . |
| 30 | It may be felt that this analysis has only theoretical value at most . |