Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [adv] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may simply be a matter of explaining once again the implications of the diseases in terms of any personal relationships , giving advice about contraceptive clinics , or just lending a sympathetic ear while the patient unburdens his or her problems . |
| 2 | At one level , this may simply be a matter of ‘ massaging ’ the statistics , something in which all governments engage . |
| 3 | This theory has it that , as a breed , doctors like to be masters of every possible situation , and that this may even be a factor in their selection of medicine as a career . |
| 4 | This may yet be the end of me . |
| 5 | But this may just be an illusion . |
| 6 | However dolphins and toothed whales commonly rake each other with their teeth , as dominant animals show aggression towards subordinates ( usually younger males ) and in competition for females , and this may also be a cause of scarring . |
| 7 | This may also be the case for the participant , either because the cosmologies themselves , which are often contradictory , admit of an alternative , mythical , more individualistic model of freedom , or because that alternative is evident in the nearby cities , where its attractions outweigh the possible negative features . |
| 8 | This may also be the case for the zebrafish POU protein studied here . |
| 9 | In the USA the not-for-profit sectors dealing with heads of major museums , art galleries and universities are increasingly searched by headhunters and this may well be a sector in Britain that uses search in the future , particularly if more of those organisations continue to receive increased levels of funding from the corporate sector , as would seem to be the case . |
| 10 | The evidence shows that this may well be a case in which failures by the ambulance service to provide an ambulance more quickly to a person who was in extremis was a cause of the death which might have been avoidable if the ambulance had been available earlier . |
| 11 | This may well be a reference to Psalm 22:18 . |
| 12 | This may well be a reason why previous diets have failed . |
| 13 | This may well be the case , but it leaves one with an increased sense of respect for Eric Shipton and his companions who , in 1929 , made each of the first three Nelion-Batian traverses ( up and down by what is now regarded as the Normal Route ) , in one day . |
| 14 | This may well be the man in me rather than the man of God . ’ |
| 15 | One reason for this may well be the inability of other laboratories to reproduce exactly the conditions under which the initial observations were made . |
| 16 | So the highly defined agenda of a festival such as this may well be the way forward for gay men who 've long been marginalised and denied fair access to the media . |
| 17 | It is necessary to check not merely that the ad has appeared , but that it is in the right place , and that it has been properly reproduced — the quality of printing can vary markedly , and this may well be the fault of the publication : in this case , some redress is due . |
| 18 | This may well be the precursor of other similar disputes and the CNAA 's necessary concern at this situation arises from the fact that a major deterioration in the resource needs of the polytechnics inevitably casts doubt on their ability to maintain standards . |
| 19 | This may well be the reason why the rebound hunger problem does not arise when carbohydrate foods are consumed in their natural fibre-rich form . |
| 20 | The reason for this may well be the fact that IT , like almost all innovations , has emerged and has been developed to the highest standard in countries with strong democratic forces which are able to counterbalance any propensity for excessive power concentration . |
| 21 | Alternatively this may only be a change in the precious metal brought about by necessity , and silver coinage may have continued the earlier function of the gold coinage , as bullion . |
| 22 | Dickinson argues for a change in the organisation of the industry as chronologically earlier pairs show less variation than later examples ; this may only be a change in ability and need not relate to changes in the medium used to make models . |
| 23 | This may only be a curiosity of Cowdery 's Down , for , on other contemporary settlements , pits and other deep features contained numerous seeds and animal bones . |
| 24 | But this may only be a reality for those who are adaptable in what they are prepared to consider and where they are willing to go to do it . |
| 25 | This may therefore be a clause of time , place , cause , reason , purpose , result , condition , concession , manner or comparison . |
| 26 | This may sometimes be the case . |
| 27 | This may sometimes be the result of lack of information and reluctance on the part of the carers to take measures to correct this . |
| 28 | This should soon be the case with all educated men ; and might be brought about sooner with formal contacts between the BAAS and Parliament . |
| 29 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 30 | This must surely be an oversight as all teachers agree that as a direct beneficiary of the Society 's efforts they should contribute as members towards its work . |