Example sentences of "this [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may dredge up long-buried , uncomfortable emotions about his own childhood . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is possible that if in the manager-owner contract nexus the manager bears little risk , this may spill over into a lack of control over employees . |
| 3 | This may lead both author and reader into difficulties unless one point is emphasized and remembered : the terms " teacher " , " media specialist " , " educational technologist " , and " librarian " , are not necessarily mutually exclusive . |
| 4 | Geographically , this may bring in the concept of relative location , for instance , the distance in travel time between the corporate headquarters and a branch factory . |
| 5 | This may bring about degeneration of standards either through communication failures or because succeeding team members lack the pioneering zeal of the original staff . |
| 6 | The particular point of interest ( Table 12b ) is the extent of any difference between the attitudes of people who are not using or have not used a type of credit , and the attitudes of those who have : when the attitudes of non-users are different , this may suggest either a misapprehension , or sometimes some genuine difference — in either case , perhaps worth further exploration . |
| 7 | This may explain why candidiasis is so much more common in women generally , as well as showing how the Pill might influence candidiasis . |
| 8 | This may explain why Gautier 's cat touched the mouths of the singers with her paw when they hit the particular note . |
| 9 | This may explain why the French , on the same number of overdue days as the UK , make a profit , whereas the latter incurs a substantial loss . ’ |
| 10 | Therefore , spreads are of little importance for index futures , and this may explain why there have been only three empirical studies of the pricing of spreads in index futures . |
| 11 | This may explain why Držić was known as ‘ the Croatian Molière ’ . |
| 12 | Failure to recognize and to allow for this may explain why , even after nine years of Thatcherite ‘ political clout ’ , doubt still exists about the extent of real cultural change within Whitehall and whether ‘ lasting reforms ’ have , or ever will be , achieved . |
| 13 | This may explain why low dose chenodeyxholic acid does not prevent gall stone recurrence while the results of this and other studies suggest that low dose ursodeoxycholic acid may do so . |
| 14 | This may explain why two trials by the European Cooperative Crohn 's Disease group , both using a protein hydrolysate diet containing oligopeptides rather than solely free amino acids , have shown that enteral feeding is inferior to drug treatment with corticosteroids and sulphasalazine . |
| 15 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 16 | This may explain why in 1035 Harold 's claim to be Cnut 's son was greeted by some with incredulity . |
| 17 | In other words Africa may have remained close to the region of major sub-lithospheric heating which preceded the breakup of Pangaea and this may explain why it has a high mean elevation today in spite of lacking significant orogenic belts . |
| 18 | This may appear somewhat surprising . |
| 19 | This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run . |
| 20 | But this may assume too much . |
| 21 | This may throw more light on the mechanism of action of the alcoholic beverages on the gastric mucosa and possibly on other organs . |
| 22 | This may involve either the misappropriation of confidential information or the breach of a fiduciary duty of confidentiality . |
| 23 | Secondly , disused flues must be ventilated at top and bottom ; if they are not , condensation can occur within the flue and this may show up as damp patches on chimney breasts . |
| 24 | This may reflect either the decreased mobility of older people or a decline in the number of friends and/or family available for visiting . |
| 25 | For instance , childhood conduct disorder may often lead to anti-social behaviour in adulthood , but this may reflect either the continuity of the disorder or the different effects of the same social stress acting first upon a child and later upon an adult ( Graham , 1983 ) . |
| 26 | This may mean not only placing specific contractual obligations upon his supplier but also making tests on more than infrequent random samples of the goods supplied , Riley v. Webb ( 1987 D.C. ) and Rotherham M.B.C. v. Raysun ( 1988 D.C. ) . |
| 27 | A ‘ practitioner ’ view was also identified which was pragmatic , accepting elements of both the major value positions outlined here but being more aware of the need for different approaches in different individual cases , and more concerned about matters of detailed practice than of principle ( though this may mean simply that values and principles were not made explicit ) . |
| 28 | This may mean simply that a bilingual speaker will quote the actual words of another speaker in the original language . |
| 29 | In practice , this may mean as little as insisting on modest changes in decision-making procedures and modes of academic debate ; or it may mean as much as the sacrifice of a whole way of life for activism in some major political cause . |
| 30 | This may mean directly asking an elder for an account of her or his behaviour , and , after discussion with the person , forming a provisional judgement . |