Example sentences of "it may [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case it may lend to the discount houses ; then the Bank 's balance sheet will show an increase in advances ( an asset ) and in bankers ' deposits ( a liability ) . |
| 2 | If the hair should snap off from the tear , it may drift for many kilometres on the wind , falling slowly , and come to rest a long way down-wind from the vent . |
| 3 | It may grow into a noble sympathy , self-sacrifice … and joy … |
| 4 | In others it may last for months . |
| 5 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 6 | It may evaporate into the air , or , after passing through the sewage plant , will enter rivers and seas via sewage outflow pipes . |
| 7 | The superoxide generated may have a direct cytotoxic effect or it may interact with inflammatory mediators to modify the inflammatory process . |
| 8 | It may range from one afternoon a week to full extension services opening daily , staffed by a paid worker and volunteers . |
| 9 | When this occurs in the great blood vessels it may result in loss of the normal damping mechanism of the cardiac output due to the relative inelasticity of these vessels . |
| 10 | This can have the effect of moving the blockage further down the burrow , or it may result in one or more rabbits deciding to make a bolt for it . |
| 11 | In some cases it may result in a selective growth defect in the affected joints . |
| 12 | This can be a costly solution because it may result in the involvement of staff who must forgo their needed rest period or the employment of nurses from an inappropriate grade . |
| 13 | Another criticism of this strategy is that it may result in widely varying control requirements and pollution control expenditures for competing companies in regions of differing air quality . |
| 14 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 15 | Although this complication is unlikely to cause overt clinical problems it may result in diagnostic confusion particularly with peritoneal malignancy . |
| 16 | At its most extreme , it may result in the court rewriting the terms of a lease in order to do what is fair and reasonable between the parties in circumstances which they did not foresee at the date of the lease ( Pole Properties Ltd v Feinberg ( 1981 ) 259 EG 417 ) . |
| 17 | Lord Diplock said : " What it does in that capacity is governed by public law ; and although the legal consequences of doing it may result in creating rights enforceable in private law , those rights are not necessarily the same as those that would flow in private law from doing a similar act otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers . " |
| 18 | It may result from inconveniently timed appointments or travel difficulties ; or it may be because the patient lacks clear understanding of what will happen if he does attend . |
| 19 | Indeed , it may vary for reasons which are in part a matter for individual decision and temperament . |
| 20 | The ratio may be simply expressed as a percentage or fraction of the firm 's profits or as " income points " ; it may involve preferential salaries ; it may vary as the firm 's profits fall within certain predetermined bands ; it may be subject to reduction if specified targets are missed ; it may contain a discretionary element to be awarded by way of performance bonuses . |
| 21 | It may vary from just around one tooth , to a whole section of your mouth and is not usually painful . |
| 22 | It may vary by point one or point two but never more than that . ’ |
| 23 | It may vary in intensity and in duration . |
| 24 | It may consist of NACAB area and central office induction when the new manager will meet the local and central staff and hear about the work that they do and the resources available to support the manager . |
| 25 | It may consist of a tape-slide sequence which can be shown to classes and groups or viewed singly by individuals , and conveying a particular unit of information or stimulus ; it may , on the other hand , be half a term 's work programme for a class , meeting twice weekly for an hour and three quarters each time It may appear as a number of elements in a schedule of work which also includes directed teaching , use of text book , and practical formal exercises , as well as enquiry work , the consultation of sources , and a problem-solving exercise involving the study of a filmstrip in relation to a work-sheet or a passage in a novel . |
| 26 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
| 27 | It may consist of a single file although , particularly under Windows , this is becoming less common . |
| 28 | Typically , this project will be part of the company 's engineering or science programme ( but not necessarily research ) , or alternatively , it may consist of course development . |
| 29 | A market may consist of a mere handful of people ( eg specialist collectors of a certain type of antique porcelain ) , or it may consist of millions ( eg consumers of breakfast cereals ) . |
| 30 | A molecule may be monatomic — as in the case of noble gases — or it may consist of two or more atoms . |