Example sentences of "it [modal v] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In some countries it may in part be based on social/ethnic background . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | This result shows that , although in ( 1 ) no restriction is placed on B , it must in practice be a reasonable approximation to unc if the method is to converge . |
| 13 | It must in effect become the actual embodiment of the idealized , phantasied parent of early childhood , the parent who is omnipresently nurturing , omnisciently caring and omnipotently protecting . |
| 14 | It must in fact plunge into the heart of the matter in order to lay bare the fundamental conditions which made it all even possible . |
| 15 | It must in fact be fit and safe … |
| 16 | I knew it must in theory , but to see it happen was still a lovely surprise . |
| 17 | To that extent it might in principle have been acceptable to the Vietminh government : but probably only to the point where , in practice , it was powerless to circumscribe the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic . |
| 18 | There were several reasons why Adenauer pursued such a line of argument : it might be a way of helping the new West German state to achieve equality in the international order ; it might placate West German annoyance over the role of the International Ruhr Authority ; and it might in time offer an opportunity for West Germany to regain sovereignty of the coal and steel producing Saar , which still remained in French hands . |
| 19 | I do n't really know where I , or I know where I 'm going but I have to take the troops with me I had er , I got you see what is parts of a I A P compact certificate it might in fact , if the boss would let me do , if I could do an industry in December right ? |
| 20 | Although the local authority would be responsible for any damages in cases of negligence , it could in turn take disciplinary action against teachers . |
| 21 | With enough chips and a large enough training set , it could in principle recognise any class of retinal images with absolute confidence . |
| 22 | So it could in theory , but I can not conceive of a case where a doctor , faced with the refusal of a mentally competent 16-year-old to having an abortion , would terminate the pregnancy merely upon the consent of the girl 's parents . |
| 23 | If the government wishes to restrict monetary growth over the longer term , it could in theory attempt to control any of these four . |
| 24 | One former Edinburgh male compositor who worked at Constable 's told me in a letter that " we as apprentices … used to help the ladies by lifting the formes of type on to the stones , so as they could do corrections , and lift them down " It could in fact have perfectly well been done by a strong woman or by two women cooperating , and in any case took very little time . |
| 25 | We estimate that er of the er the current level of collected dose from medical radiology , about half of it could in fact be reduced by implementing the recommendations of the report . |
| 26 | The US airline Pan American , which had filed in January for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the US insolvency code [ see p. 37953 ] , saw its prospects improve with an acceptance by the United Kingdom government ( confirmed on March 11 ) that it could in effect sell its rights to routes into London 's Heathrow airport to United Airlines for $290,000,000 ; United began its Heathrow services on April 5 . |
| 27 | Bolivia is no longer the tremendously cheap country it was five or six years ago , and anything organised expressly for foreign travellers costs almost what it would in Europe . |
| 28 | Thus , although it would in principle be possible to use the producer price indices for measuring the rate of inflation , it is more appropriate to regard them as indicators of the likely future trend of inflation . |
| 29 | Far-fetched as the notion of a forge in the yard of every sizeable farm must seem , it would in principle have been perfectly consistent with fragmented and seasonal production . |
| 30 | ‘ Face-on ’ display is the method or arranging books so that the dust jacket is seen face-on as it would in bookshop display . |