Example sentences of "this may [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If severe , this may result in the diabetic lipaemia that is particularly seen in poorly controlled or newly diagnosed diabetics ( Bagdade et al , 1967 ) . |
| 3 | This may result in the offlined modules being stored on a single , immediately available , large optical disk and ten magnetic disks . |
| 4 | This may result in the reduced borrowing of irrelevant theses on the one hand , but on the other hand , information on the existence of relevant theses could result in their increased use in the communication process . |
| 5 | Young argues that this may result in an upper stratum free from self-doubt and the restraining influence of humility . |
| 6 | Nevertheless the idea of ‘ readiness ’ for a test must be one where the teacher has to be the ultimate judge ; and this may lead to a certain amount of tension between parents and teachers . |
| 7 | Abel-Smith has shown how this may lead to a discredited system . |
| 8 | This may lead to the whole group moving , tugged along by a complex web of bonds . |
| 9 | Boyden worldwide has become stronger , with revenues of $34.6m. earned from 1150 searches by 100 consultants ; this may lead to an increased presence in the British market . |
| 10 | Although this may seen like an idyllic setting , the fact that the panda 's natural habitat has been reduced to this area is enough cause for alarm . |
| 11 | This may appear as a sudden change in behaviour because the more subtle signs were not noticed before the operation . |
| 12 | Sometimes this may feel like a military strategy and it is quite in order to treat it this way : to plot and plan to take the fortress which is your imaginary castle , your silent , fertile abode , despite the background of your everyday tasks and obligations . |
| 13 | This may vary from an identical response to a very different one . |
| 14 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 15 | This may sound like a special aesthetic law , but in fact I believe it is implicit in the very act of pronouncing , or thinking , the word ‘ hypocrite ’ : you only use it when you have caught one . |
| 16 | This may predispose to an increased risk of intracranial haemorrhage , necrotising enterocolitis , hypoxia and acidosis . |
| 17 | This may look like an easy knock-down argument against a silly theory which nobody has ever seriously held : but what is true of mental pictures would seem to be true of any kind of mental representing process which encodes sensations in some determinate form . |
| 18 | This may occur at the exposed soil surface as raindrops selectively erode fine clay particles , leaving heavier sand particles : with time this process can affect deeper parts of the soil profile , impairing its water-retaining capacity to such an extent that even after agriculture has been abandoned the forest may be unable to recolonise . |
| 19 | This may point to a powerful repressed feeling which we fear will overwhelm us . |
| 20 | This may point to the fundamental difference between Gandhi 's ideal of sarvodaya , the welfare of all , and Mill 's utilitarian axiom . |
| 21 | This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time . |
| 22 | This may account for the regular citation in the Commissioner 's Annual Reports of several applications ‘ not pursued ’ by the applicants . |
| 23 | A visit to France , the details of which remain unclear , also led to the accusation that he had associated with the supporters of Mary Queen of Scots [ q.v. ] there : this may account for the apparent loss of royal favour by the mid-1570s . |
| 24 | Nowhere north of the Tagus was there a class like the landless rural proletariat of Andalusia and Estremadura , and this may account for the relative political stability of Castile : only one nineteenth-century revolt started in the classic wheat lands . |
| 25 | Mention is also made of a small attached building heated by a hypocaust at the south-west corner , suggested as a possible priest 's house , and this may account for the so-called ‘ hypocaust ’ tiles found on the site , presumably box-flues . |
| 26 | However strange this may seem within the modern formula of the artist as free creative individual , there can be no real doubt that major art , of certain kinds , was produced and sustained in these ways . |
| 27 | This may seem like a backward step but for those users who only have a computer system and printer this program is ideal for completing any form that will fit in your printer . |
| 28 | This may seem like a large haul , but trading standards officers insist it 's just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 29 | This may seem like a hard thing to do , but if you 've been involved with occult powers you really do need the help of an older Christian , so pluck up all your courage and … |
| 30 | All this may seem like a put-off — but so many have died through lack of thought , facilities and impatience I can not give you the impression that they are going to be cheap and easy , quite the reverse ! |