Example sentences of "this [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geographically , this may bring in the concept of relative location , for instance , the distance in travel time between the corporate headquarters and a branch factory . |
| 2 | The particular point of interest ( Table 12b ) is the extent of any difference between the attitudes of people who are not using or have not used a type of credit , and the attitudes of those who have : when the attitudes of non-users are different , this may suggest either a misapprehension , or sometimes some genuine difference — in either case , perhaps worth further exploration . |
| 3 | This may explain why the French , on the same number of overdue days as the UK , make a profit , whereas the latter incurs a substantial loss . ’ |
| 4 | This may involve either the misappropriation of confidential information or the breach of a fiduciary duty of confidentiality . |
| 5 | For instance , childhood conduct disorder may often lead to anti-social behaviour in adulthood , but this may reflect either the continuity of the disorder or the different effects of the same social stress acting first upon a child and later upon an adult ( Graham , 1983 ) . |
| 6 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 7 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 8 | This might explain why the universe started off in the big bang in almost perfect thermal equilibrium , because thermal equilibrium would correspond to the largest number of microscopic configurations and hence the greatest probability . |
| 9 | Men 's more direct conversational style comes into conflict with women 's expectations of support , and each sex misunderstands the other 's intentions ( this might explain why the pattern is much more marked in mixed sex than in all-male talk ) . |
| 10 | There is some evidence that the concentration of acid in the stomach is highest in the night and this might explain why the pain associated with excess gastric acid is most marked at night and can wake you then . |
| 11 | After a run of say five or six seconds , press the button again to stop the machine on record-pause while you move to a new position for the next shot — this might include both the house and part of the garden . |
| 12 | This could mean either a uniform , across-the-board depreciation of a greater depreciation against some currencies than others , i.e. some currencies in effect appreciate against the deficit country . |
| 13 | This could speed up the introduction of HDTV in America . |
| 14 | The Deputy Defence Secretary , Stane Brovet , expressed the Army 's concern that under a multiparty system the government administration would become politicized and that this would affect adversely the role of the Army [ see p. 37155 ] . |
| 15 | but this would open up the possibility of governments manipulating the voucher system to encourage some courses and discourage others . |
| 16 | The possibility of amendment was rejected by EC Foreign Ministers on April 6 , as this would open up the prospect of other countries also trying to renegotiate the terms of the Treaty . |
| 17 | This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices . |
| 18 | This would throw up a host of attendant problems . |
| 19 | Whatever the answers , the enemy must not discover these questions were being asked , for this would give away the landing areas of a future invasion . |
| 20 | Each Contracting State must designate such a Central Authority to receive requests for service coming from other Contracting States ; the expectation , borne out in practice , was that this would involve not the creation of some new agency but the designation as Central Authority for the purposes of this Convention of some existing office or ministry . |
| 21 | The King pressed for formal consideration , to which Baldwin agreed , although pointing out that this would involve both the Cabinet and the Dominion Prime Ministers . |
| 22 | It looks as though this would involve quite a bit more work than the seat on Snowhill and I would need to put your estimate to the next meeting of the Parish Council on Thursday 17th June . |
| 23 | If they were fed in manually , this would imply exactly the kind of task objected to by the unions — namely , a task paced by the automatic welder and with a cycle time of less than a minute . |
| 24 | This would drive up the price of securities and drive down the rate of interest . |
| 25 | In the next section a historical example will be given , and this will show how a critic of the British monarchy became a firm justifier , because in an altered rhetor ; cal climate the former stance took on a new , and fiercer , meaning . |
| 26 | This will bring about an increase in the number of high-capacity international links , just as domestic high-capacity links have become more common in the UK and the US . |
| 27 | Write the family name first , as this will decide where the work will go in an alphabetical list . |
| 28 | They hope this will clear up the problem here and elsewhere , for good . |
| 29 | If the population happens to be already rich in genes for B1 and C1 , this will set up a climate favouring the A1 gene rather than the A2 gene . |
| 30 | Conversely , if the population is already rich in genes for B2 and C2 this will set up a climate in which the A2 gene is favoured by selection rather than the A1 gene . |