Example sentences of "this [vb mod] be [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court has no power to order a medical or psychiatric examination of a parent no matter how relevant this may be to the proceedings . |
| 2 | The overall emphasis on cost and efficiency in the reformed National Health Service is likely to increase pressures for further reducing the length of hospital stays , and once again this may be to the detriment of older patients . |
| 3 | All this may be for the locals , but in Cologne you 'll find the welcome extended to visitors is as warm as a schnapps downed in one . |
| 4 | CUP , OUP and Longman have worked through local publishers for many years , although this may be at the cost of their own brand identities . |
| 5 | This may be in the course of a meeting on alternative methods of therapy which the practitioner may have attended either out of a vague general interest or out of disenchantment with the results of orthodox treatments . |
| 6 | This may be in the form of statutory instruments and orders , byelaws , regulations and orders in council . |
| 7 | This may be in the form of a restricted zone in which the linkage may not lie , a definition of the order in which positional modifications can take place , or of restrictions on the local or global energy changes that can take place . |
| 8 | This may be in the form of land between existing dwellings or often the assembly and foreshortening of long back gardens in order to permit development . |
| 9 | This may be in the form of a report containing written evidence , diagrams or graphs as appropriate . |
| 10 | This may be in the form of small g individual work , the whole class working together , and involve the use of multi-media resources or it may be a arrangement . |
| 11 | This may be underneath the chapel , or behind or beside it , and may consist of a church hall , meeting rooms and offices . |
| 12 | If everything goes smoothly , this may be by the end of March . |
| 13 | This may be after the damage to the train . |
| 14 | This should be at the centre of the designer 's attention throughout the development of the unit — indeed , starting with preliminary ideas of what options the program should present to the user and then refining and extending them , the program will develop in tune with the feedback received from the classroom . |
| 15 | Now it could be contended that any manager who needed a booklet to tell him this should be on the shopfloor . |
| 16 | Governing bodies are empowered to specify the duties and to determine the grading of non-teaching staff appointed after LMS , but this should be within the scale of grades currently applied within the LEA . |
| 17 | This must be against the interests of the UK economy , and of EC consumers . |
| 18 | There will need to be an assessment of which overseas markets offer the most opportunities at the same time as looking for early signs of local companies being eyed by competitors as ripe for merger or acquisition , forecasting what the effects of this might be on the locality . |
| 19 | This might be on the basis of a particular attribute such as colour or shape , or a more abstract quality such as use or even ‘ because I like them ’ . |
| 20 | Local transport agencies should be asked to consider changes in timetabling or re-routing where this might be to the benefit of staff . |
| 21 | It 's been estimated that this might be of the order of one cubic kilometre per year . |
| 22 | This might be in the form of a branch or sub-section of the BAeA or as a separate unit entirely . |
| 23 | This might be in the form of a joint certificate such as that envisaged in the Oxford Certificate of Educational Achievement ( Willmott , 1986 ) , or in the form of a supplementary record such as that provided by ‘ pupils ’ personal recording' , for example ( De Groot , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | They may have been formed in the interests of diversification ( unnecessary though this might be from the viewpoint of the theory of finance ) or for political reasons , for example . |
| 25 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 26 | This could be on the basis of multi-member constituencies and some form of proportional representation or on the existing first past the post system . |
| 27 | This could be on the basis of the shape of the letters ( physical identity ) or according to the name of the letters ( nominal identity ) . |
| 28 | Initially this could be on the basis of individual projects or overhead accounts and subsequently in as much detail as management consider necessary . |
| 29 | This could be to the club 's advantage in the long-run , however , because with supporters at a loose end on Saturdays , they have an ideal opportunity to visit the ‘ old home ’ and Mr Singh 's new megastore . |
| 30 | This could be in the middle of the Solent , but many inland or sheltered coastal venues are more reasonable . |