Example sentences of "factor which may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While courses such as intravenous therapy updates are readily acceptable and have immediately observable results in terms of clinical care delivery , less tangible skills such as teaching need to be built up gradually if they are to be successful , another factor which may affect motivation . |
| 2 | The nature of classroom interaction is one factor which may affect children 's ability to cope with explanations in the classroom . |
| 3 | The second , and more positive , factor which may explain the fact that accountability for tragic death is not so readily attributed to the professionals concerns the status of old people as autonomous adults . |
| 4 | Another factor which may influence a firm 's decision is that of competition from other firms in the same line of business . |
| 5 | Another factor which may influence return to work is the amount of benefit in comparison with level of earnings . |
| 6 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 7 | Another factor which may have been important in this first year of the reforms was the determination of these pioneering fundholders to ensure the success of the scheme . |
| 8 | A non-material cultural factor which may have an influence on the development of overseas markets is aesthetics . |
| 9 | Another factor which may initiate a bout of thrush is mechanical injury . |
| 10 | Again there are several precipitating factors which may lead to repeated recurrence , with sexual intercourse heading the list , but the attacks will tend to become less frequent and severe . |
| 11 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 12 | The experience of admission to hospital and the possibility of surgery will be different for each individual but it is possible to discuss some of the physical and psychological factors which may contribute to stress and the effects these may have on progress and recovery . |
| 13 | Other factors which may relate to lower HDL levels include poor diabetic control , increasing age , obesity , an inverse relationship to serum triglycerides , androgens , smoking and , although controversial , a high carbohydrate dietary intake ( Ganda , 1980 ) . |
| 14 | So there are three factors which may stop women getting as good value from credit as men : less awareness of credit costs , and of their rights ; credit-worthiness indicators ( such as employment and housing status ) which tend to be associated with unreliable payers and to be more common with women than with men ; and perhaps occasional outright discrimination . |
| 15 | An extrapolation of these figures would indicate an annual turnover of staff from the department as high as 100% — a disquieting percentage even after allowance for the various factors which may accelerate change in a predominantly female workforce . ’ |
| 16 | There are various factors which may affect the emotional and intellectual development of their children . |
| 17 | And local factors which may affect future conversion rates . |
| 18 | We have shown how drama may suffer if there are insufficient signals to remind the participants of the real world but there are other factors which may deter entry into the dramatic fiction . |
| 19 | Try to remain aware of the factors which may make a newly admitted patient anxious . |
| 20 | Whilst standardised scales have the advantage of producing data in a form which simplifies the process of analysis and facilitates comparisons with other studies , they can not take into account the whole range of factors which may influence an elderly person 's mental state at any one time , or the way in which he or she answers questions . |
| 21 | In this chapter we shall examine the various factors which may influence the entrepreneur when deciding on the form the business will take , and consider the legal framework within which the business will operate . |
| 22 | One danger is that prospective purchasers get carried away and on occasion acquire land on impulse without fully investigating factors which may influence the financial success of the proposed development . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , the significance of ASW consultation with male relatives , and a tendency to examine social factors which may have challenged GP definitions less than with other referrals are rather less positive . |
| 24 | Among the factors which may have contributed to the disorderly condition of the Gascon nobility was the slackening of the crusading effort against the infidel . |
| 25 | Adjustments to incorporate various factors which may have affected this annual prevalence figure ( over 200 cases lacking an identity code , low response rates from GPs and social workers ) suggest a possible range of 1,550 to 1,850 individual problem drug users in Wirral during 1984–5 . |
| 26 | There were a number of other factors which may have influenced the Court in deciding in Costa Rica 's favour . |
| 27 | Interviews revealed a number of factors which may have contributed to this : |
| 28 | Colleagues need to convey a sense of wanting to learn from the worker 's experience ( as against simple curiosity ) , and to be secure enough to explore the full range of factors which may have contributed to the outcome . |
| 29 | What are the non-market factors which may increase the risk of an investment and how may they be minimized if not eradicated ? |
| 30 | Explain and discuss the factors which may cause the Black-Scholes model to yield inaccurate results . |