Example sentences of "it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission kept under review the human rights situation in Afghanistan , Romania , El Salvador and Iran but sent a clear signal that it may terminate special scrutiny of the latter two countries at its next session . |
| 2 | He makes it his business to extract from fashion whatever element it may contain of poetry within history , to distil the eternal from the transitory … |
| 3 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 4 | The corollary is that some catalogue information has only a limited life , since it may in its turn be overtaken by new research . |
| 5 | It may , for example , have been part of a private collection which itself was catalogued , especially if the collector in question was rich . |
| 6 | The underlying question for a reader of criticism is what influences are exerted on the critic ; but as in this instance , for long it may be impossible to know the truth . |
| 7 | It may also give a misleading impression : for example , the work of German Expressionist painters under the banner of the name Die Brücke , Kirchner , Nolde and Pechstein was affected by their practice as print-makers , where some motifs and treatment originated . |
| 8 | In the longer term , it may be something aesthetic will be seen in what was intended as pure politics . |
| 9 | You may say that it is feeble in colour and monotonous in tone — it may be so , but it touches the heart , it arrests the attention ; and what is the use of all your correct drawing and pure tints , and skill in light and shade , if your subject leaves me cold and unaffected . |
| 10 | Or it may be music , as in Mussorgsky 's composition which he entitled ‘ Pictures from an Exhibition ’ . |
| 11 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 12 | Interpretation is allowed to copy what it finds , and to distort it , and it may be that the novel can be interpreted as an entertainment which conveys that doctrines of science and improvement ca n't encompass what happens in a frightening world , where motive is dark and ill-will ubiquitous . |
| 13 | But she was also , among other literary things , the wonderful and baleful orphan or isolate who is seen to advantage in the books she read : and it may be that cultural history is especially worth attending to in cases such as hers , where the subject is a dedicated reader , and the basis for a directly psychological account is even more than usually insecure . |
| 14 | And it may be that Justin , too , has more to say , from beyond the grave . |
| 15 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 16 | For some , it may serve as a reminder of the Kingsley Amis who once unambiguously remarked , in the course of a berating of Philip Roth , that ‘ Jewish jokes are not funny ’ . |
| 17 | It may be that Larkin 's poem and the person we meet there participate in the ventriloquism of Amis 's novel . |
| 18 | Amis also likes to write , as Larkin liked to write , about the fear of death , and it may be that this fear can be detected in the failure to notice here that both sorts of people are subject to it , as to other unavoidable misfortunes , and that both sorts die . |
| 19 | But it is possible to believe that the idea of ventriloquism which lies at the heart of it may be successfully applied both to some sorts of contemporary author and to some of what went before . |
| 20 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 21 | I have in fact no explanation to offer as to how he came to die , and it may be that no trustworthy explanation will ever be achieved . |
| 22 | This tendency has no counterpart in Levi , and it may be doubtful whether it could live with the subject-matter of the camps . |
| 23 | But being watch 'd that it may still go right ! |
| 24 | If you 're going to take a break it may as well be a clean one . |
| 25 | It may be difficult , but it is not complicated , and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong . |
| 26 | Finally , here are some reminders — it may sound like a do 's and don'ts column , but these are important things to remember . |
| 27 | Perhaps certain parts played in the past have not succeeded , and it may be possible to investigate why . |
| 28 | If any professional person has shown an interest in your work do n't let it go , but try to cultivate their interest , however tenuous it may seem — you will soon know if it 's going to be any use for the future . |
| 29 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 30 | It all happened so quickly — sometimes I think it may have been too quickly . |