Example sentences of "this [vb mod] be [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be particularly important to a bidder who wishes , or needs , to acquire 100 per cent of the target ( see para 9.1.2 below and Appendix 2 ) . |
| 2 | This may be smugly satisfying to those of us who sit on the sidelines , but even ardent moralists must soon start to wonder whether the Boesky boom in show trials has overplayed itself . |
| 3 | This may be partly due to its isolated geographical position , which has helped to give the country its intense feeling of national uniqueness , and its deep conservatism . |
| 4 | This may be partly due to the type of food eaten . |
| 5 | This may be partly due to the fact that in the UK , young parents of today are less aware of the seriousness of some of the diseases as Sieving ( 1988 ) points out in her discussion of the ravages of measles in developing countries . |
| 6 | This may be partly due to the fact that teacher training for further education in the Principality revolves almost entirely around the University of Wales , which also validates all courses for the professional training of teachers , including those for primary and secondary schools . |
| 7 | This may be partly due to the fact that , births to young teenagers being exceptional in many populations , not all countries reported separate data for the under 15 maternal age group . |
| 8 | As an alternative to damages , an account of profits may be available and this may be more advantageous to the plaintiff , especially if the defendant has made substantial profit from his use of the information . |
| 9 | In an NHS clinic this may be only ten to fifteen minutes , but the average practitioner seeing a patient privately likes to give about an hour to the first interview , so that a good idea of as many facets of the patient as possible can be ascertained . |
| 10 | But the conclusion to be drawn from this may be less acceptable to those for whom the democratic and pluralist nature of local government is one of its key defining characteristics , since local government ( both elected and unelected ) seems increasingly to be drawn into ‘ corporatism at local level ’ . |
| 11 | The waveform of this current is shown in Fig. 2 which also serves as an illustration of the magnetic field produced by the coil , since this must be directly proportional to the current . |
| 12 | This must be quite disappointing to the Danes who have spent millions of pounds over the years building up ‘ Danish ’ as a trademark on a par with Bisto or Nescafe . |
| 13 | Sometimes this could be rather deflating to our egos as we enjoyed handling our ships , keeping them smart and clean and maintaining all the equipment and machinery in good operational order in readiness for any job we were asked to do . |
| 14 | If you pin all your hopes on it , you may see improvements where there are none , and in the long run this could be very damaging to your child . |
| 15 | the engine power required to do this would be approximately 21 to 24 h.p . |
| 16 | ( This would be roughly analogous to claiming that the two different posts in an organization are really the same because their occupants report to the same superior . ) |
| 17 | This would be too akin to the power of the pope backed by the inquisition in the seventeenth century , or to Stalin 's power backed by the KGB over soviet scientists in the twentieth century , to be acceptable . |
| 18 | ‘ This would be more beneficial to the company and to the national economy than the audit . ’ |
| 19 | The effect is not observed in some renal and heart disorders ; then the rate of urine flow on lying down at night is greater than during the daytime and this will be diagnostically useful to the physician . |
| 20 | Restrictions on sales will provide protection in some countries , but this will be more difficult to police . |
| 21 | This will be quite different to their usual routine , of course , when they may sleep for quite long periods . |
| 22 | So land reform is , is , and this will be very counter to nineteen forty seven , land re land reform is , is not now the means of mobilizing the masses , you have to mobilize the masses for land reform . |
| 23 | All this will be perfectly satisfactory to those who are willing to stop their analysis of conditioning at this level and who do not concern themselves with the detailed mechanisms that underlie the subject , s sensitivity to these various correlations . |
| 24 | This will be especially helpful to those who suffer from lower back pain . |
| 25 | This will be especially damaging to Europe because Germany , its economic powerhouse , has so much of its workforce in manufacturing — more than any other industrialised country ( chart 4 ) . |
| 26 | Important feelings are shared and understood , and this can be enormously comforting to the survivors . |
| 27 | This can be particularly important to farmers , and Denman ( 1978 ) has shown that in Scotland approximately 6,100 private landholders , many of whom were smallholders or crofters , were involved in some form of tourist or recreational provision . |
| 28 | This can be so useful to anyone looking for a secondary school , especially for the young couple with a growing child who are looking for a new area to move into . |