Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often thought that Cichlasoma pair for life , and in the home aquarium , this may appear to be so . |
| 2 | This may appear to be easier , but it is not always wisest , especially for the novice who has never kept large cichlids before . |
| 3 | At first sight , this may appear to be a poor performance but it is in fact over twice as frequent as a random selection ( which for this data would be 32.7% of cases ) . |
| 4 | Now this , this may this may appear , this may this may may be a this may appear to be a a a something farfetched , might this . |
| 5 | This may appear to be a rather strange task to use . |
| 6 | This may appear to be an odd question to pose , but it has a bearing on our approach to the provision of legal services and the involvement of lawyers . |
| 7 | Hence at balance Although at first sight this may appear to be a single balance condition , in order to be satisfied , the real and imaginary parts of the two sides of the equation must be separately equal so that it is in fact a double balance condition as anticipated . |
| 8 | In principle this may appear to be a very cumbersome activity , but in practice it 's not . |
| 9 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 10 | Even in the case of the large church with a regular new members ' class , this may need to be supplemented by a sponsorship scheme in which the converts are matched with church members of the same sex and similar age and background , to help them find their feet and be introduced to the family . |
| 11 | Once allocated it should be a prime task of the particular worker to do a full assessment , in the knowledge that this may need to be repeated , as the health , morale or circumstances of the elderly person at risk can change rapidly with a knock-on effect . |
| 12 | Two disadvantages of such techniques are that each word has to have a tag field added to it ( and this may need to be quite long to hold a suitable range of values ) , and execution of each instruction becomes more complicated ( and therefore possibly slower ) . |
| 13 | This may need to be supported by actual action likely to undermine public confidence in the exchange . |
| 14 | This may prove to be the most expensive contest staged in Britain , but I doubt whether it really will be the biggest since the war . |
| 15 | In other words , some iterative process between SBUs and corporate headquarters will probably be necessary and this may prove to be the key to solving this problem . |
| 16 | For sublanguage processing this may prove to be extremely useful if a large ( raw ) corpus is available , since the word classification will be specifically for that sublanguage type . |
| 17 | Inhibition of MAO-B is also of topical interest since this may prove to be the first manoeuvre that has slowed the progression of Parkinson 's disease ; the mechanism is uncertain but it was originally thought of because this approach blocked the toxicity of the selective dopaminergic poison , MPTP . |
| 18 | The Communists had gone so far towards accepting any ally that the Daily Worker expressed hopes that " this may prove to be a new , broad democratic movement , based primarily on the youth of the country " . |
| 19 | But this may prove to be one of the final fence cutting protests at Upper Heyford . |
| 20 | If drainage is a serious problem , this may have to be tackled before fertility can be built up . |
| 21 | If the pot-au-feu is for a special occasion you include as well a boiling chicken , but since so many kitchens are n't equipped with a soup pot large enough to hold a chicken at the same time as all the meat , this may have to be cooked separately . |
| 22 | The appellant is supposed to have a right of reply , but this may have to be sacrificed if it has grown too late . |
| 23 | This may have to be sawn off with a junior hacksaw if it has rusted in place |
| 24 | Although this may seem to be of more interest to a mountaineer it does give a most convincing sense of reality to his hills and this without a sterile exactitude . |
| 25 | Although this may seem to be the logical method of connection , it will definitely not provide the desired result . |
| 26 | Although this may seem to be a statement of the obvious , it is in fact a very important point which goes to the very roots of movie making . |
| 27 | This may seem to be a difficult way of creating a tapestry or some embroidery , but if you are skilled at needlework you will find it extremely satisfying to have made something from your own design . |
| 28 | This may seem to be a gloomy picture but it must be noted that , in relation to work , age is not a large aspect of individual differences compared with natural endowment , and that increases in ability can more than compensate for small decreases in capacity . |
| 29 | To the many BMJ readers who never submit a paper this may seem to be limited accountability , but the time that editors take to make decisions on publication is critical to authors . |
| 30 | The obvious answer to all this may seem to be a separate crew to work and clean the ship and a team of specialists for the revenue work . |