Example sentences of "this [modal v] [verb] as [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may arise as a consequence of an unsuccessful or ill-considered approach to a potential purchaser or from the nature ( or financial condition ) of a prospective client and the motive for requesting us to carry out the work . |
| 2 | This may arise as a consequence of an unsuccessful or ill-considered approach to a potential target . |
| 3 | After all the cutbacks and retrenchment over the last decade or so , this may come as a surprise to you and has certainly caused us to reassess the way we approach our planning . |
| 4 | The picture of an old man in the sky is not taught by any of the great religions — yet this may come as a surprise to many people today . |
| 5 | This may act as a disincentive to penetrating other national markets . |
| 6 | Because of the very nature of desktop publishing this should come as no surprise . |
| 7 | This should come as no surprise since leaders possess a certain amount of power . |
| 8 | And this might come as a surprise to our brethren in the popular national press — Thirty-eight . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , this might come as a surprise to you , but I felt safer here than down there . |
| 10 | All this could change as a result of an amendment to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill which is jut about to become law . |
| 11 | All this could come as a shock to your system if you were the shy and reticent student who hid behind more extrovert col-leagues . |
| 12 | This could act as a bar and serving area as well . |
| 13 | This would act as a barrier against damaging developments such as road-building schemes , as individual departments would find it more difficult to override conservation interests . |
| 14 | This would act as an incentive for conservation and would also enable poor countries to realize some of the value of the resources . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope that this will serve as an example for other corporations throughout the world who deal in electronics , ’ the pre-trial judge , Spencer Williams , commented when imposing a $10 000 fine on Hitachi . |
| 16 | This will come as a disappointment to some couples , but it would be unfair to raise expectations when our list of approved couples is currently more than sufficient to meet the demand . |
| 17 | Maybe this will act as a deterrent . ’ |
| 18 | This will act as a ventilation tube for the hedgehog . |
| 19 | This will act as a water reservoir to keep the soil from becoming too soggy . |
| 20 | Those who have had facts imparted to them effectively will pass the tests and those who have not will fail to pass the tests , and when the lists are read out on Speech Day the incompetence of the bad fact-imparters will be revealed to the world and this will act as a goad and make them impart their facts better in future … . ’ |
| 21 | This plausibly supports the view that it is relative deprivation which is causally related to crime , and that in conditions where unemployment is perceived as unjust and hopeless by comparison with the lot of other groups , this will act as a precipitant of crime . |
| 22 | This will act as a yardstick by which industry and local authorities could check they were getting value for money , he said . |
| 23 | This can double as the machine teachers use to preview materials and to find a place on a tape before a lesson . |
| 24 | This can serve as the relation of dominance of a non-branching hierarchy : mountain : hillock : mound . |
| 25 | All of this can come as no surprise , since one of the greatest difficulties which confronts the medical legal commentator in dealing with the treatment of the terminally ill is that techniques and technology have developed and changed with such rapidity in the past decade or so that it is only vaguely that the problems are perceived , let alone responded to by developing a general consensus in the form of law . |