Example sentences of "this may [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In absolute terms this may simply represent trends in a growing economy .
2 But this may also attract criticism from parents if they make their own comparisons about trends and innovations .
3 This may also encourage teams to think more about their kicking plays .
4 As a safety-valve mechanism as well as in the effort to use the peripheral labour resources productively , liberal economists such as Vera Lutz have recommended the encouragement of emigration to areas of labour-scarcity , but this may also produce problems of integration in the long term .
5 This may also help parents to be more aware of language and communication in ordinary , everyday settings and to notice when and on what occasions a child 's language seems to be improving .
6 This may well reflect differences in case definition and the limitations inherent in their retrospective study , in which endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography was not a routine investigation .
7 However , if the rent-seeking coalitions are extensive , this may well reduce wages elsewhere to the point where reservation wages are not met and unemployment and/or underemployment is commonplace .
8 P.P. , but not L.A.H. , was able to use an uncrossed pathway on the intact side ; this may possibly reflect differences in cortical binocularity between the two infants .
9 Improved forensic science standards and public sector laboratories equally available to the defence and prosecution — this may only go part way to ensuring an equality of arms between the prosecution and defence , which is essential in an adversarial system .
10 Where the capitalist state has to use force , the army or the police , then this is clearly a failure of hegemony , though where people are persuaded that the use of force is legitimate , this may actually increase hegemony .
11 This may therefore give rise to increased endogenous triglyceride synthesis and release in the form of VLDL .
12 One factor here is that we are increasing the number of referees we use outside Britain , and this may sometimes increase delay , although electronic communication is shrinking the globe fast .
13 Although the concentration and effort required to do this may sometimes produce fatigue , this is temporary and in no way signifies that sight will ‘ wear out ’ with use .
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