Example sentences of "this may [vb infin] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much depends on the determination of workers to defend jobs and conditions , and factors like this may alter considerably over time . |
| 2 | This may stem partly from ignorance about specific techniques but some of it goes back further to past failures at school with arithmetic . |
| 3 | This may arise even in circumstances where there is a knowledge of BSL and therefore some way of encoding its meaning . |
| 4 | At first sight this may seem so for Locke too . |
| 5 | Nor would the suggestion of a derivational link to a noun hold good for an associative use of young rather common in advertisements : ( 14 ) the young place to go young clothes the young thing to do Another thing to emphasize is that what we are considering does not depend on a change of sense in the adjective ; in some cases , certainly , the shift from ascription to association or vice versa may be accompanied by or compatible with such a lexical change ; but this may happen equally in cases of classical structural ambiguity , such as : ( 15 ) Charles will give a talk on the village green where two different senses of on are called upon , as one shifts from the one structure to the other . |