Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope this may of interest to other gardeners . |
| 2 | This may to a certain extent have been true . |
| 3 | As with transcendence and immanence , this may at first sight appear to represent a flat contradiction in terms . |
| 4 | This may at first be simple ‘ draw writing ’ but as they develop and learn more about how written language works , their writing comes increasingly close to standard adult systems . |
| 5 | This may at first appear paradoxical because robots are often — perhaps most often — thought of as mechanical workpeople , displacing humans . |
| 6 | Although this may at first seem to be an absolute method of reading the bar widths , it is actually reading the widths of the bars relative to the total width of the bar code . |
| 7 | The Department of Health publishes tar tables to encourage smokers who can not or will not give up smoking to switch to lower tar brands on the grounds that this may at least lower their risk of lung cancer . |
| 8 | We shall take it that their surface structure is : ( 44 ) This may at first make them seem somewhat analogous to the predicate qualifiers , except that the noun phrase beyond the mediating verb is here the subject of the clause rather than the object as with the predicate qualifiers , and it is to the entity of this noun phrase that the property of the adjective applies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This may in turn lead to a build-up of idle money-capital arising from unused depreciation funds . ) |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This may in part be true , but it ignores the mechanisms by which gold was obtained , assessed and utilised . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | As compared with a ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ regime , this may in some areas lead to outcomes which are more efficient from a social point of view , as where a company takes voluntary action to internalise external costs . |
| 21 | This may in certain cases require not only that the applicant be informed of the evidence , but that he should be given a sufficient opportunity to deal with it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This may in turn cure any subsequent errors . |
| 24 | This may in turn cure any subsequent errors . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Are we not being reminded in a very distinctive yet emphatic way that this ought to be the nature of the Church ? |
| 30 | The voters need no persuading that this ought to be so . |