Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope this may of interest to other gardeners . |
| 2 | This may in turn lead to a build-up of idle money-capital arising from unused depreciation funds . ) |
| 3 | This may in turn induce protest from subjects whose activation of any right or freedom to protest may make the task of governing more difficult . |
| 4 | This may in turn have caused the forelegs of prosauropods ( the Triassic forerunners of sauropods ) to become more massive , stimulated as they were by the repeated dropping onto all fours when moving slowly . |
| 5 | Generally , people are rather flattered at the thought of being so important , but this may in turn create the problem that they become untypical because they know that they are in the sample , and will be questioned regularly about their lives , activities , and attitudes . |
| 6 | A distortion of the market in this way not only impedes the allocative efficiency of the market but may have a bearing on public confidence in the stock market ; this may in turn adversely affect market liquidity . |
| 7 | Large-scale redundancies , particularly where the company employs a sizeable proportion of the workforce , are liable to result in a substantial reduction in local purchasing power ; this may in turn have a knock-on effect on other local businesses and on local tax revenues and hence municipally-provided services , and the ensuing high level of unemployment is likely to contribute more generally to a weakening of community relations . |
| 8 | This may in turn cure any subsequent errors . |
| 9 | This may in turn cure any subsequent errors . |
| 10 | This may in part be due to the similarity of styles used in much of the genre fiction , and the fact that readers ' expectations in terms of style are therefore rarely disappointed . |
| 11 | This may in part be true , but it ignores the mechanisms by which gold was obtained , assessed and utilised . |
| 12 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 13 | This may in part be explained by the lower compliance in the community studies : using intention to treat analysis results in a diluting of effect when compliance is low . |
| 14 | It is concluded that like EGF , TGF α can stimulate pancreatic cancer growth in vivo , and this may in part explain the aggressive nature of these cancers in cliical practice . |
| 15 | This may in part have been a political move , for if he was the son of Ealdorman Æthelmær of Wessex , as is usually assumed , he came from a major West Saxon family , and had a brother , Æthelweard , executed by Cnut in 1017 and a brother-in-law ( another Æthelweard ) banished in 1020 . |
| 16 | In Europe workers also gained from a slower growth , relative to prices in general , of consumer prices ; this may in part have reflected pressure on governments to increase subsidies or hold down nationalized industries prices . |
| 17 | It is , however , worth noting that the number of public companies , and their proportion of the total number of companies , is significantly higher in other member states , so that this may in time be of concern to a UK company with a subsidiary in another member state . |
| 18 | The researchers conclude that this may in time result in a depleted population of effectively " domesticated " rhinos , and warn that losing the genetic input of the wilder rhinos would have a dangerous impact on the gene pool . |
| 19 | This may in fact may have been the prime interest of most of those gathered at Enham , who seem to have been attending something very like a French peace meeting . |
| 20 | This ought in theory to have raised the amount demanded by Wolsey , but would have taken much longer to collect . |
| 21 | In 1797 he had exhibited two paintings , No. 500 in the catalogue ‘ Barrow Cascade ’ , and No. 651 ‘ Silver Cove at the head of Enerdale Water ’ , this must of course refer to Ennerdale Water . |
| 22 | This must of course be partly because inflation has made even £100 too small a sum to need spreading over many instalment repayments . |
| 23 | This must of necessity put you in a very weak defensive position and I would maintain that this is responsible for losing more bouts than any other factor . |
| 24 | And this must in part have reflected a greater diversity among its patrons . |
| 25 | The NME was unusually acerbic about the incident , referring to Gedge 's ‘ fat arse ’ and continuing : ‘ This could of course explain the band 's recent silence . |
| 26 | Existing member states , such as the UK , therefore were to receive relatively less in terms of regional aid than previously , although this could in part be compensated by the general increase in the size of the Structural Funds . |
| 27 | This could in principle have occurred smoothly : as profitability slid down , accumulation could have declined gently to a sustainable rate . |
| 28 | This could in turn explain why a higher proportion of experimental eggs were rejected at Santa Fe than at Guadix , because hosts are known to be more likely to reject alien eggs when they are alerted by encounters with the adult parasite in the vicinity of their nest . |
| 29 | This could in turn receive extensive media coverage . |
| 30 | This could in turn lead to interference with the normal negative feedback loop and result in a rise in the circulating gastrin values ; indeed serum gastrin has been found to rise significantly after cigarette smoking in patients with duodenal ulcer disease . |