Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will advise you on the inheritance tax your estate might incur and ways in which this may be reduced . |
| 2 | This may be by way of theory , or on more matter-of-fact lines about technique or such questions as composition . |
| 3 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 4 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 5 | This may be important in assessing how well a writer illustrates an argument . |
| 6 | Unluckily , this may be of little help to the reader if the pictures illustrated are used as mere decoration , and not the subject of critical discussion . |
| 7 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 8 | This may be reasonably safe with a very long tow rope , but if there is only a shorter length of rope available the glider may overrun and smash into the back of the car , causing hundreds of pounds ' worth of damage to the glider . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , this may be precisely when your scoring technique thumps home but if the panel ca n't see it , they ca n't award a point . |
| 10 | This may be the case , but you will spend much of the two or three minutes moving at sub-maximum speed , so the further you can ride on the back of aerobic respiration , the more lies in reserve for explosive onslaughts . |
| 11 | This may be faster but it leads to a kicking action that tends to collide with the opponent 's leading knee rather than pass over it . |
| 12 | By the end of it all the mind-body problem will loom large — but this may be because we are now a little closer to it . |
| 13 | If the death is then considered to be from natural causes , the coroner will issue a notification that he does not consider it necessary to hold an inquest , and this may be given to the relative to take to the registrar or sent to the registrar direct . |
| 14 | This may be available in your local library . |
| 15 | It looks as though this may be the price for privatising the water companies that everyone feared . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed , if things work out , this may be Pete 's future . |
| 17 | This may be coincidence , or it may be that the star system in French intellectual culture requires its major performers to be visibly on stage . |
| 18 | Of the many loyal services that Eliot did for his old comrade-inarms , this may be the most notable . |
| 19 | This may be difficult , because most of the villas have already been spoken for — ‘ except Sihanouk 's house . |
| 20 | Sotheby 's have estimated its value at $10m-$14m , but this may be on the low side to ensure a sale . |
| 21 | In some cases this may be attributable to the Swiss tendency to conserve ( money , not nature ) ; in others , the terrain makes links between areas impracticable or unnecessary . |
| 22 | Ninagawa feels that this may be easier for a Japanese director . |
| 23 | In the long-term , this may be more damaging than a short-term run on the pound . |
| 24 | Again , this may be found in two forms . |
| 25 | This may be a little exaggerated , but it makes the point quite nicely that the commodity position of British trade recovered strikingly well after 1945 — essential imports could readily be paid for by exports plus the American loan remarkably quickly after the war 's end . |
| 26 | This may be set alongside their widespread suspicion of birth control and was undoubtedly strongly related to the very limited alternatives to marriage open to them . |
| 27 | This may be attributed to the fact that the city 's traders were not swamped by the growth of the larger British companies during the colonial period , that among the merchant families involved in the kola nut trade , two generations were common , and that merchant families in Kano were particularly successful from the early 1960s at forming links with overseas companies , not least with those from the Far East . |
| 28 | These priorities imply , on the domestic front , the attempt to maintain a continuing powerful role for the state , the economic dominance of a fairly small elite and an indifference to the welfare of rural peasant farmers , complicated as this may be by political loyalties to certain tribal groups . |
| 29 | This may be accounted a kind of progress and helps to assuage the liberal moral conscience . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course you 're suggesting the side lines were n't legitimate and this may be hindsight , but now I look back Mr Hatton did perhaps occasionally have a shady air about him when he talked of them . |