Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may snap off from the arm |
| 2 | This type of doubt is already aggravated by the contemporary crisis of identity , but it may grow even more serious wherever there is a hardening of society 's attitudes towards Christianity . |
| 3 | There is one potential hazard associated with dense ivy growth on a living tree — it may grow so rapidly and thickly that any fungal growth may be hidden . |
| 4 | Other areas where it may break down are areas of high biological activity for example tropical reef flats very high biological activity there , very high demand for calcium carbonate to build all those coral skeletons , so carbonate will be stripped out . |
| 5 | Or it may dissolve away itself ? |
| 6 | It may change gradually over time , as indeed may the level of damages generally . |
| 7 | This is partly philanthropic and partly economic — it may cost more to process the bill and collect the money than to write off the charge ! |
| 8 | In other diseases it may vary even more . |
| 9 | It may vary slightly in length and in its physical arrangement but these are matters of detail ; the chemistry is the same . |
| 10 | It may finish earlier where no further work can be done or it may finish some minutes later in order to complete sensibly . |
| 11 | Well it may , it may stand out like a sore thumb , yeah . |
| 12 | It may disintegrate on impact or , if it survives that , it may carry on some distance under water . |
| 13 | It may explain both why the fourteen-year-old King played a prominent part in the negotiations at Mile End and Smithfield , and how he was able to avoid mob vengeance after Tyler 's murder . |
| 14 | It may explain why he is making such a mess of the job . |
| 15 | It may explain why scores of hon. Members are trying to get into the Chamber . |
| 16 | Or maybe blue … they say it may clear up later , but people say that all the time in Scotland . |
| 17 | Also , if the material is soft it may buckle easily at the inner side of the bend and vitiate the result . |
| 18 | Work continues with NEC on the low-power VRX R4000 iteration , though SGI has n't decide whether it 'll productise the thing yet , it may prefer instead to let NEC bring portable technologies to market and OEM them . |
| 19 | Suppose that on the basis of the observations at T 1 , we select a group of children of low reading ability for experimental remedial education , X. Even if X is useless , a child 's performance at T 2 can not ( or is unlikely to ) deteriorate since it is already at an extreme low but , through chance variation , it may move upwards giving an overall appearance of improvement . |
| 20 | It needs a heart of stone not to sympathise with a figure in this predicament — a figure on whom it may rest finally to decide whether South Africa lives in peace or at war . |
| 21 | It may mean also that strikes are openly directed against state policy as much as against management 's negotiating position , as with the French public sector strike in the mid-1960s against government fixing of the total wage bill ( Dubois 1975 : 114–15 ) , or the wave of public sector conflicts over the Spanish government 's wage control and restructuring policies in early 1987 . |
| 22 | In practice , this may mean as little as insisting on modest changes in decision-making procedures and modes of academic debate ; or it may mean as much as the sacrifice of a whole way of life for activism in some major political cause . |
| 23 | ’ It may mean only that you do not have it here , ’ she said . |
| 24 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 25 | It may arise simply because the risk of deterioration of a resource may be unequally shared among affected people , or because the fruits of personal sacrifices will be enjoyed by others , or discounted future benefits do not justify present sacrifices and are distributed unevenly . |
| 26 | As Herman explains , ‘ [ c ] ollective action may result from structural ties between firms that integrate their interest and facilitate coordination between them — such as a common ownership interest — or it may arise out of a recognized common interest or mutual business interdependence with minimal personal contact and communications among the companies and their officials . |
| 27 | This is primarily an issue of construction but it may involve also a question as to how far , if at all , the powers of the court in respect of litigation costs can curtail a contractual right of recovery . |
| 28 | This may require the parents being given some special activities to be carried out each day , or it may involve more general and less highly structured activities , such as looking at books or playing with toys . |
| 29 | Since one never knows when it may flare up again , there is good reason for watching the area . |
| 30 | If there is a fracture it 's possible it may show up more clearly now , in which case I 'm afraid we wo n't have any choice but to put it in plaster . |