Example sentences of "this [modal v] [verb] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As insurance the selectors have picked seven loose forwards and this may emphasise one of the great worries about the touring side . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most important advance is the recognition of the need to place the child 's interests and welfare above any other considerations — although this may prove simpler in the abstract than it is in practice . |
| 3 | This may demonstrate one of the essential features of expert determination , namely that it need not be a personal process . |
| 4 | This may seem perverse at a time when the old industries have shed the greater part of their workforce , and unemployment is pushing towards the three-million mark . |
| 5 | This may seem strange in a column dedicated to that very subject , but I think it is excellent advice . |
| 6 | This may seem inevitable as the percentage of people working in the UK in service employment rose from 49 per cent in 1963 to almost 64 per cent in 1983 . |
| 7 | This must take much of the blame . |
| 8 | oh this 'll look nice in the summer like , yeah yeah I know , and we were in bed . |
| 9 | This might appear contrary to the idea of keeping systems thinking and real-world aspects separate , but it can provide a compromise that ensures that progress can be made ; however , such compromises should be recognised as such and not made as a matter of course . |
| 10 | At first , this might seem beneficial as the 1990s see a return of the excellent conditions for world agriculture that prevailed in the 1950s . |
| 11 | This might seem inconsistent with the fact that women were living longer , were it not that longer life brought no immediate improvement in their prospects ; it remained a man 's world . |
| 12 | Presumably this might happen due to the greater amount of material to be eroded before a cut off could occur . |
| 13 | And in a way it 's become easier as the times this might sound funny as the times gone on . |
| 14 | The conference also discussed promoting " triangular trade " between eastern Europe and the CIS using third-party finance , in the hope that this would restore some of the trade between the Soviet Union and eastern Europe which had been lost with the transfer to hard-currency accounting in January 1991 [ see p. 37979 ] . |
| 15 | This would leave less of the mudflats exposed . |
| 16 | This would seem appropriate to the early stages of learning a foreign language , but is too restrictive if carried on to an advanced level . |
| 17 | Katib Celebi 's assertion that Abdulkerim was Mufti in Edirne , however , adds yet another unknown to an already difficult set of equations since it suggests the possibility that there may have been a separate official muftilik in Edirne ( and perhaps by extension in Bursa ) concurrently with the Muftilik of Istanbul — this would run contrary to the underlying assumption of the traditional view that the Mufti was the Mufti of the capital , successively Bursa , Edirne and Istanbul some of the holders of which may have become , with the passage of time , confused with the holders of the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 18 | If implemented this would remove one of the criticisms of a s.52 agreement which can be a useful tool in achieving , amongst other things , odour prevention and abatement . |
| 19 | This would look appropriate in a rustic or upland garden with plants allowed to grow and spill onto the steps . |
| 20 | Another way of achieving this would fall short of a recognised qualification or certificate but could amount to the giving of credits for completion of parts of a training course . |
| 21 | This would require that for the same amount of light energy ( measured incident solar radiation has not varied by more than 0.5% since the beginning of the twentieth century ) more carbon is fixed per unit chlorophyll ( the quantum yield has changed ) . |
| 22 | This would cause many of the possible infinities to cancel out , but it was suspected that some infinities might still remain . |
| 23 | This would solve many of the party 's difficulties inherited from the past , but it would do little to settle the pressing problems of the present and future . |
| 24 | This will restore most of the rights sought by the union movement as a reward for their loyalty , and Mr Lyons would like to see it signed on Friday . |
| 25 | Among other things it is hoped that this will eliminate some of the problems which Noah clearly believes led to their defeat by Switzerland — although his own choice of an outdoor clay court for the match against Jakob Hlasek and Marc Rosset , did not help either . |
| 26 | This will remain constant throughout the design no matter what order the colours appear in on all succeeding lines and is also the order for colours to be used in the colour changer when knitting . |
| 27 | I trust this will clarify some of the misconceptions created by Mr Caton 's statement . |
| 28 | This will hold good for the more regularly used applications . |
| 29 | This will drive most of the air out of the growing medium and prevent clouds of bubbles and associated debris from being released into the pool . |
| 30 | However , this will fall short of the health maintenance organisation ( HMO ) concept in the USA , where all the health care of enrollees is a charge on the HMO ( Drummond & Maynard , 1988 ) . |