Example sentences of "[det] [vb mod] [be] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of that may be true of various couplets of Hebrew poetry , but it is quite other than what is being urged in this paper . |
| 2 | That may be true in general , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expects change in return , and puts on tremendous pressure to get that change , ’ one official said . |
| 3 | In modern societies written records are kept by all kinds of agencies , and some may be available to social researchers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This may be due to demographic distortion , low educational levels or to the impact of income subsidisation measures adopted by governments . |
| 8 | This may be due to managerial incompetence , in which case the state ( having taken over the investment side of the financial institutions ' business ) could exercise its prerogative as ‘ trustee of the people 's savings ’ to force managerial changes . |
| 9 | This may be due to competing demands for ( limited ) attention . |
| 10 | This may be due to poor analysis — the analyst may not have understood fully the present system or the users ’ requirements . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Susan , Carol and Joan use the basilectal [ i ] / [ ] , while Stephen uses [ e : ] / [ o : ] — though this may be due to Eastern Caribbean ( St Vincentian ) influence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This may be due to parental management techniques but may also be due to the temperamental state of the child . |
| 15 | This may be due to inadequate learning but recent research suggests there is a severe disjunction between what is learned in formal science lessons and what is used in more social and affective situations . |
| 16 | This may be due to different mutations within the APC gene causing variations from a total absence of gene product through to protein only partially reduced in function . |
| 17 | There is no requirement to identify the other person but this may be advantageous in certain circumstances , e.g. when suspected that a defence may be used that there was no other person . |
| 18 | This may be hard for western activists to take , but it is our highest purpose : to know God and to enjoy him forever . |
| 19 | ( Some people think that this might be dangerous for inexperienced students , but it does not seem to cause any particular problems in Australia . ) |
| 20 | This might be relevant for National Curriculum history Attainment Target 2 on interpretations of history , for instance . |
| 21 | Increased oesophageal alkaline exposure has been previously demonstrated in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus and it has been suggested that this might be secondary to increased duodenogastric reflux using discriminant analysis in a small number of patients . |
| 22 | Hence some kind of additional support , information or psychological preparation for further failure might be instituted , and this might be valuable in preventive terms . |
| 23 | Real chemical systems do show chaotic activity [ 5 ] , but this could be due to spatial , hydrodynamic irregularities rather than true chemical chaos . |
| 24 | If you take the same walk every day , try to vary the routine , introducing and reinforcing training procedures , since this could be vital at other times . |
| 25 | This could be alarming to oncoming drivers in narrow country lanes , not to mention whoever was on top . |
| 26 | This would be consistent with certain other findings . |
| 27 | This would be mainframe-driven with suitable terminals in all branches , and the person responsible for any information item would ensure that it was copied to the master file for other parties with the necessary authority to access . |
| 28 | This would be unacceptable to other political parties , notably the Congress Party , which props up India 's very minority government . |
| 29 | The Panel may , nevertheless , have to be supervised by the regulatory authority ( for example , the DTI ) and this would be subject to judicial review . |
| 30 | This would be subject to strict regulation and only banks would have access to deposit insurance . |