Example sentences of "this [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laryngeal mask is being modified to produce a version that may afford better protection against aspiration , and this may extend its applications still further . |
| 2 | It is , however , more difficult to envisage the formation of a substantial amount of secondary porosity followed by fracturing during deep burial ; this may necessitate a reduction in hydrostatic pressure ( perhaps a relaxation of overpressuring ) , a change in pore fluid chemistry ( cessation of secondary porosity formation ) allowing subsequent fracture , or slight tectonic movement . |
| 3 | Should the patio to be laid require the removal of a substantial concreted area , this may necessitate a contribution towards the removal costs of the winner . |
| 4 | This may necessitate a careful examination of customer needs through a survey conducted by the seller . |
| 5 | It 's very odd , but I find Margaret Thatcher enormously attractive — this may tell you much more about me than I really want you to know . |
| 6 | Obviously this may tell you more about me than about the works themselves . |
| 7 | In a damaging exposure of Saint Beuve 's literary critical method , Proust argued against Saint Beuve that the biography of a writer , erm even an account of his habits , his social attitudes , his vices , his virtues and so on , that this may tell us nothing at all about the nature and significance of his imaginative work . |
| 8 | If you run any schemes with voluntary car drivers who do more than 4000 miles a year and feel this may effect your volunteers please contact Hilary on ( 0604 ) 670092 . |
| 9 | This may offer significant tax savings . |
| 10 | This may offer some protection , although it is difficult to disinfect plastic and is no substitute for sterile works . |
| 11 | This may offer some evidence for a possible overlap of integral groups ( a ) and ( b ) : for the Ashcroft mosaic is certainly one of the most impressive saltire arrangements ( the constituents of group ( b ) ) . |
| 12 | This may result in swift and brutal treatment of patients with complaints which are difficult to diagnose . |
| 13 | In addition the loud cries of harem males probably alert others to the presence of non-reproductive males and this may result in collaborative defence in driving them away . |
| 14 | This may result in mental handicap . |
| 15 | This may result in increased sodium reabsorption with subsequent increased exchangeable body sodium ( De Chatel et al , 1977 ) . |
| 16 | If severe , this may result in the diabetic lipaemia that is particularly seen in poorly controlled or newly diagnosed diabetics ( Bagdade et al , 1967 ) . |
| 17 | For example it is reported that overstocking in litter-based poultry will result in an overloaded offensive litter ; whilst understocking may also be undesirable , since this may result in a dry and dusty litter which may help disperse the odour over a wide area , unless dust filters are installed . |
| 18 | This may result in his experiencing conflicting approaches and being given contradictory advice . |
| 19 | As noted above , this may result in an order for recovery of the aid . |
| 20 | For instance , if a reorganisation or modernisation of the current site is carried out this may result in the space savings required . |
| 21 | If they voice this concern to the general practitioner or health visitor this may result in the first step being taken in the identification of a visual problem , but unfortunately there can be instances in which the defective vision is not detected until the child has a pre-school medical . |
| 22 | As the child gets older and time orientations lengthen , the reward may be delayed ; gratification may occur days , weeks , months or even years later , and this may result in a ‘ work ethic ’ style in which persistence becomes a sub-goal in itself . |
| 23 | This may result in its greater toleration in the spouse ; but if the tolerance does not exist , the increasing ease of separation and divorce mean that the need to live with it for social or economic reasons is reduced . |
| 24 | As Furth ( 1982 ) points out , this may result in increased status differentiation within higher education between subjects or institutions ; it may also affect the ‘ hidden ’ curriculum of assumed values , perspectives and relationships ( Becker et al . |
| 25 | Young argues that this may result in an upper stratum free from self-doubt and the restraining influence of humility . |
| 26 | This may result in conflict between the ruling minority and the rest of society . |
| 27 | This may result in lower capacity and thus increase the inability for TI and NCM to respond to the needs of their exporting policyholders . |
| 28 | This may result in further disturbance of mood and hence re-awaken the disease and increase the risk of return to the substance or process of addiction . |
| 29 | This may result in a number of different criteria being applied at different stages of the search activity . |
| 30 | This may result in permanent damage being done to the previously friendly atmosphere of the classroom . |