Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be explained by the selective cholinomimetic action of cisapride on the smooth muscle in the mid and distal oesophagus whereas the striated muscle of the proximal oesophagus has not been affected . |
| 2 | This may be explained by the fact that more hydrogen was used in a metabolism other than methanogenesis in these subjects even on the basal diet . |
| 3 | This may be explained by misspellings or misread-.ings . |
| 4 | This may be explained , at least in part , by the greater antigen binding capacity of the solid phase , and might explain why some of the antibodies showed reactivity with antigens bound to nitrocellulose which they failed to recognised by ELISA . |
| 5 | This may be explained by the fact that the increased basal acid output in duodenal ulcer patients was due to their combination of increased basal gastrin and exaggerated acid response to gastrin . |
| 6 | Almost half the Congo patients still had detectable parasitaemia on day 4 ; in Gabon all patients had a negative thick blood film on day 3 , and this may be explained by the use of a new formulation of halofantrine . |
| 7 | This may be justified on a variety of hard to refute grounds , such as the person is needed to keep production or a service going without disruption . |
| 8 | In part this may be justified because the UK competes in large world markets where the firms will have little monopoly power , but , given the documented lack of success of merged companies , successive governments may have encouraged too many mergers . |
| 9 | In the case of upshot , it is the illocutionary or perlocutionary force , what the speaker is trying to do with his or her words , which is made explicit , and this may be prefaced by utterances like : ‘ Are you trying to annoy me ? ’ or ‘ What 's the point of telling me this ? ’ or ‘ I was only trying to be friendly ’ . |
| 10 | The eminently more favourable position would be that if one partner engages in sexual conduct with another outside their relationship which the other partner finds intolerable , then this may be cited as evidence that the marriage has broken down . |
| 11 | This may be observed by noting that ( 10.70 ) and similarly . |
| 12 | Children are assessed while staying at the Institute for up to four weeks ( this may be extended in some cases ) . |
| 13 | This may be extended to ‘ optimisation ’ — the search for the most suitable design to meet the requirements . ’ |
| 14 | Works of art of ‘ the same high quality ’ as the Guggenheim Museum in New York , and encompassing ‘ all the essential works in the Guggenheim collection ’ will be loaned to the new museum , initially for a period of twenty years , though this may be extended to seventy-five years or indefinitely , according to the agreement . |
| 15 | The prepatent periods of members of this genus are generally between 2-3 months although this may be extended , due to hypobiosis in some species . |
| 16 | This may be defined as care provided by family , friends and neighbours which is not organized via a statutory or voluntary agency and is not undertaken for financial reward . |
| 17 | This may be defined as the study and description of the rules underlying the form of language in general . |
| 18 | This may be illustrated by the contrast between Britain and the United States , vis-à-vis Sweden and West Germany ( Windmüller , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | This may be illustrated from a public opinion survey in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1972 . |
| 20 | This may be illustrated by a simple numerical example . |
| 21 | This may be illustrated by Marx 's view of the nature of ownership and production in capitalist society . |
| 22 | This may be illustrated by considering the position of a man on average wages whose wife does n't earn , who has two children under 11 , and who takes out a mortgage of three times annual income . |
| 23 | In the present case , this may be illustrated by the assumption that the ‘ representative ’ consumer chooses his supply of labour L s to maximize U ( X , Y , L s ) subject to , the supply of capital being taken as fixed . |
| 24 | This may be reached from Horton in Ribblesdale , but more pleasantly from Clapham by taking the bridleway east of the church . |
| 25 | This may be tackled for example by paying them a relatively higher fixed salary with less dependent upon the outcome . |
| 26 | This may be confirmed on a few sites by the presence of a small cemetery over the site of the original house , after it had been thoroughly demolished , since some of the graves have been dug into the wall foundations , showing an ignorance of their existence . |
| 27 | Unlike haemonchosis in sheep , grazing cattle over two years old are relatively immune although this may be broken down by drought conditions which lead to poor nutrition and heavy challenge from congregation of animals around watering points . |
| 28 | This may be seen in his pollution of air , soil and ocean and in his scant disregard for the balance of nature or the needs of future generations and his tendency , without restraint , to use animal creation for his own ends . |
| 29 | This may be seen as an application of the principle of fair labelling . |
| 30 | This may be seen not only from a detailed breakdown of the sacrificial prescriptions in terms of the sex of the victim chosen for particular occasions , but more especially from an analysis of two other rituals which appeared on the scene at the same time : covenantal ( male ) circumcision and the regulations surrounding menstruation and childbirth . |