Example sentences of "this may be [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While corticosteroids have an adverse effect on bone mass , this may be partly counterbalanced by improvement in the inflammatory bowel disease . |
| 2 | This may be partly explained by the large study population needed to show even a modest advantage ; the statistical power of the study being proportional to the number of deaths within the population . |
| 3 | Ultimately , this may be best achieved by transferring full responsibility for prisons from the states to the central government , or , if this remains politically unfeasible , by building more federal prisons as ‘ models ’ for the remainder ( an engine of reform in other countries with a similar federal structure ) . |
| 4 | This may be simply defined as the ability to discriminate highly contrasted figures from a distance . |
| 5 | And an additional problem for relatives is that while it may be a relief to designate mental disorder as ‘ illness ’ , this may be deeply resented by the individual concerned . |
| 6 | The bedrooms have a full or side view of the lake , although in some cases this may be somewhat impeded by the trees . |
| 7 | For words which occur frequently in searches , this may be better done by using a thesaurus-like structure , prepared using a ranked list of words actually used in searches , with their contexts . |