Example sentences of "this may [be] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be called the ‘ monumental or Renaissance ’ , a style which made an enormous impact on ‘ townscapes ’ throughout Europe , especially in the years before and after the Great War . |
| 2 | The greatest problem facing schools , now as always , is how to ensure the best possible service to present pupils ( this may be called the steady-state operation ) , while at the same time , developing the creativity which alone will allow us to continue to adapt to change in the future . |
| 3 | This may be called the chain through vacancy facility . |
| 4 | This may be called the Phenomenon of the Persistence of Facies . |
| 5 | This may be called the Phenomenon of the Gap Being More Important than the Record . |
| 6 | This may be called the Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of much of the Stratigraphical Record . |
| 7 | This may be called the Phenomenon of Quantum Sedimentation . |
| 8 | This may be called the Principle of the Relative Independence of Sedimentation and Subsidence . |
| 9 | This may be called the Principle of the Golden Spike . |
| 10 | This may be called the " ambulance effect " because its most familiar manifestation is the sudden drop in pitch of an ambulance 's siren as it speeds past the listener . |
| 11 | A key reference book is Sources for the History of Houses by John Harvey ( London 1974 ) , and to this may be added The Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture by R.W. Brunskill ( London , 3rd edition 1986 ) , and Traditional Buildings of Britain by the same author ( London 1985 ) . |
| 12 | To this may be added the characters of the dentition related to diet , such as broad spatulate central incisors , low crowned premolars with loss of honing on P3 , and relatively broad molars with low rounded cusps . |
| 13 | This may be termed the Phenomenon of the Fallibility of the Fossil Record . |