Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [be] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As postulated by Smith ( 1969 , 103 ) , this may be indicative of influence from the west country . |
| 2 | This may be true of the common-or-garden use of the word idea , but when a philosopher like John Locke says that a man is not speaking intelligibly unless his words ‘ excite the same ideas in the hearer which he makes them stand for in speaking ‘ i it is not just a way of talking . |
| 3 | While this may be true of highly competitive markets , however , ‘ an imperfectly competitive market will not quickly convert … inefficiency into insolvency ’ . |
| 4 | Most notably the 31 P data show that the phosphates of 3 dinucleotide junctions ( T3pG4 , C6pG7 , C9pA10 ) resonate at relatively low field and this could be indicative of B II conformations . |
| 5 | This would be untrue of course , if ‘ god ’ were just another name for the natural processes which provide food , but such a limited definition of the word would serve no purpose in the establishment of a religion , and it has never been thus used . |
| 6 | A radical criminology which remained insensitive of this would be guilty of forgetting its theoretical roots and rightly rejected . |
| 7 | This would be true of Shakespeare himself and his audience . |
| 8 | This would be irrespective of their desire to watch more than 5 hours of TV in a day . |
| 9 | This would be irrespective of whether that treatment involves hospitalisation or not . |
| 10 | However , if current divorce rates continue this will be true of many more in future . |
| 11 | For example , while in 198515 per cent of those aged over 75 were unable to bath without help , on the basis of current trends this will be true of 17 per cent by 2001 , an increase of almost 188,000 people , simply because of the increased proportion of those actually aged over 85 . |