Example sentences of "this [modal v] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) ) . |
| 2 | Shallow wells generally contain much water that has reached them from the surface , and this may bring varying amounts of contamination . |
| 3 | In time this may bring improved relationships between company and the community and between employer and employees . |
| 4 | This may give some clues on how overheating contributes to cot death . |
| 5 | This may involve special categories of trader , such as the market maker , who is under an obligation ( by the exchange rules ) to quote a price in a given contract whenever asked ; the designated broker , who agrees to promote a particular contract without giving a binding commitment to deal ; and the " local " , who trades his personal account on the exchange floor . |
| 6 | This may reflect some heterogeneity in size as generally observed for DNA fragments ending with telomeres ( 34 ) . |
| 7 | I would propose that we explore with the Managing Director a possibility of a deal at the higher end of this range but this may mean some form of earnout . |
| 8 | This may make some sense for the bourgeois ‘ art ’ tradition ( though probably not as much as he thinks ) but when the elements of the entire musical production-consumption process become both more unified and interdependent , and more ‘ socialized ’ , it becomes less appropriate . |
| 9 | If the term is expressed to begin in the middle of a rental period , this may distort other parts of the lease ; for example , a rent review timetable ( East v Pantiles ( Plant Hire ) Ltd ( 1981 ) 263 EG 61 ) . |
| 10 | This may lay extra stress upon him , and should give rise to considerations of how much stress may be alleviated . |
| 11 | Few animals inspire such extremes of love and hate as the fox , and this may go some way towards explaining why so much nonsense is written and talked about them . |
| 12 | This may go some way towards explaining the difference of opinion in the various ‘ recommended ’ lists ; it all depends from what point of view ( or various shades thereof ) one is approaching the task , and for whose benefit ? |
| 13 | This may include out-of-school clubs for children who would otherwise return to an empty home , holiday schemes and special interest activities . |
| 14 | This may indicate early referral by our rheumatology department in keeping with the high percentage of these patients in our study . |
| 15 | Conversely , if restrictions on access and use are too draconian , this may discourage potential beneficiaries of the research from attempting consultations through the library system . |
| 16 | ( This may provoke wry smiles amongst anyone familiar with The Sunday People 's weekly diet of sex-op housewives and randy vicars . ) |
| 17 | This may require additional information to be recorded on requisition forms etc , or involve setting up new registers , all of which will demand extra staff time , and could lead to some resistance . |
| 18 | This may require some kind of additional structure ( at least temporarily ) whilst the system is on-line , until the trie can be re-built with the new words at a later stage . |
| 19 | All of this may provide important insights into the functioning of particular programmes , series and programmes categories , and necessary tools in the critical analysis of television . |
| 20 | While this may provide some justification for ensuring that the decision-maker indicates what was the factual basis for his action , we should be extremely wary of developing review of facts upon the premise that all such material could or should be considered . |
| 21 | While this may provide some explanation of improvements in memory with small increases in risk , the clearer implication of attention focusing is that the types of detail remembered in high arousal conditions should be more central than those in low arousal conditions ( Christianson , in press ) . |
| 22 | This may provide another justification for the anthropic principle , for if all the histories are possible , then so long as we exist in one of the histories , we may use the anthropic principle to explain why the universe is found to be the way it is . |
| 23 | This may pose particular problems in child abuse cases and The Law Society 's Guide on Confidentiality and Privilege — Child Abuse and Abduction ( published in the Law Society Professional Standards Bulletin No 5 ) offers guidance to the profession . |
| 24 | This may have serious consequences in the critical years ahead . |
| 25 | A variable which has played an important role in many theories of driving behaviour is subjective risk and it seems likely that this may have important influences on drivers ’ memory for situations for a number of reasons . |
| 26 | But resource ownershipmay well be monopolistic in character , and where a resource is owned by a monopolist , this may have important implications for the course of production . |
| 27 | Now what will happen is erm , erm there are signs of which is happening abroad already , that people will go from the United States , other parts of the world , they will fly in and they will fly into Frankfurt and they will erm fly into other European erm airports and Heathrow relative to others will begin to lose it 's position , and therefore from a national point of view , from an economic point of view , it is very important that Heathrow does sort of maintain er it 's er position and nobody 's denying that this may have some sort of , erm er important erm environmental erm dis dispendant and er if stick by them if you you 're going to . |
| 28 | This may have some root in Tolkien 's own experience , for it stresses the unwisdom of fathers leaving their children — Tolkien hardly knew his own father — and seems to be groping towards a statement about the incompatibility of men and women , users and providers , wasters and winners . |
| 29 | Repeatedly interviewing the same people can sensitise them to the research , and this may have unknown effects on their responses . |
| 30 | This may cause secondary rupture in the main pancreatic duct , the peritoneum , the retroperitoneum or more often in an adjacent viscus such as duodenum , stomach or transverse colon . |