Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , if you are treating your pets outside , avoid using a spray near a pond , as this may be toxic for fish . |
| 2 | This may be unacceptable to the vendor . |
| 3 | One explanation for this may be that for many jobs it is high productivity which leads to low job satisfaction . |
| 4 | As postulated by Smith ( 1969 , 103 ) , this may be indicative of influence from the west country . |
| 5 | However , it is strongly rumoured that this may be sometime in the early part of 1992 , when some amendments to the Building Regulations are to be introduced . |
| 6 | While this may be suitable for certain types of business customer and private individuals transferring money into other bank accounts or investments , it is clearly unsuited to small purchases . |
| 7 | This may be appropriate in an organisation like the Army where discipline and the carrying out of orders is essential to the success of that organisation . |
| 8 | Though this may be understandable in their case , it is not typical of society as a whole . |
| 9 | This may be necessary for reasons of motivation , innate intelligence , interests , time for study , time of arrival into class as well as the students ' linguistic abilities . |
| 10 | ‘ You realize , Poole , ’ said Mr Utterson , ‘ that this may be dangerous for us both ? |
| 11 | This may be frustrating for the cat — maybe not so good for the welfare of the cat — but it might help to save a fair number of wild animals . |
| 12 | Many psychiatric units now have no lockable wards at all and while this may be admirable for most in-patients , it has inevitably led to the rejection of mentally disordered offenders who require a modest degree of security and who could benefit from assessment and treatment in an ordinary hospital . |
| 13 | This may be unkind to Salisbury , but compare his Madras figures of two for 142 in 29 overs in India 's innings against those of his opposite number , Kumble , whose combined total was eight for 125 in 46 overs . |
| 14 | Particularly after divorce or separation this may be essential for a sense of independence and starting again . |
| 15 | All this may be essential for a fish that would have problems turning its mouth around to defence . |
| 16 | This may be present in natural sources such as mine water but may also come from atmospheric pollution , from flocculation with alum , and from reuse of water . |
| 17 | Hungarians understand perfectly well that this may be due to internal Romanian reasons — the Romanian army had played some part in the initial repression in Timisoara , but since it joined the rebellion this fact has been conveniently forgotten . |
| 18 | This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments . |
| 19 | Partly , this may be due to the fact that outside the tropics atmospheric circulation is from west to east , due to Coriolis forces , the forces which result from the effect of the Earth 's rotation on moving bodies . ) |
| 20 | This may be due to a reduction of free water clearance resulting in elevation of the blood volume and suppression of renin while the osmotic effect of hyperglycaemia may further exacerbate the problem . |
| 21 | This may be due to the poor quality of the preaching or it may be due to the fact that some Christians have their own interpretation of the dominical saying , ‘ Except ye be as little children ye can not enter the kingdom of heaven ’ . |
| 22 | This may be due to the generation gap . |
| 23 | This may be due to financial restrictions on travel but also because of the prevalence today of nationwide state societies in even ‘ primitive ’ areas so that one can no longer study ‘ simple ’ societies in isolation . |
| 24 | ( On Mori figures , the swing was relatively low among Express and Mail readers , but this may be due to sampling variability . |
| 25 | Certainly the feeling excited here is strange and unusual , and this may be due to the confusion in the man 's mind between his sheep and his children ( lines 21–30 , 81–90 ) . |
| 26 | This may be due to the economic climate , but also the harsh reality of trying to justify fee increases to clients whose perception of the audit service has not changed . |
| 27 | This may be due to the ‘ halo effect ’ of expecting bad behaviour from a child labelled as naughty . |
| 28 | This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child . |
| 29 | In some children this may be due to small functional bladder capacity , or to incomplete voiding when they do go to the lavatory ( Berg 1979 ; de Jonge 1973 ) . |
| 30 | I believe that this may be due to the sense of security and feeling of being safe which comes from familiar methods and tasks . |