Example sentences of "this may [vb infin] [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 they voice this concern to the general practitioner or health visitor this may result in the first step being taken in the identification of a visual problem , but unfortunately there can be instances in which the defective vision is not detected until the child has a pre-school medical . |
| 3 | If severe , this may result in the diabetic lipaemia that is particularly seen in poorly controlled or newly diagnosed diabetics ( Bagdade et al , 1967 ) . |
| 4 | This may result in the offlined modules being stored on a single , immediately available , large optical disk and ten magnetic disks . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Young argues that this may result in an upper stratum free from self-doubt and the restraining influence of humility . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Abel-Smith has shown how this may lead to a discredited system . |
| 9 | This may lead to a further expansion of the money supply , as the public sector borrowing will increase banks ' deposits with the Bank of England . |
| 10 | This may lead to the whole group moving , tugged along by a complex web of bonds . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For a company which in its 90 years ' existence has made its share of bad decisions , this may rank as the worst of them all . |
| 13 | This may appear as a sudden change in behaviour because the more subtle signs were not noticed before the operation . |
| 14 | However unsatisfactory this may appear to the haulier wishing to protect his business , this is the state of the law . |
| 15 | this may explode into a thousand fragments so I 'll just have to start all over again without having to print out copy |
| 16 | This may link with the lower average level of technical qualification among the UK chief executive officers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This may vary from a few words exchanged over the garden fence , to visits which last all day . |
| 19 | This may vary from an identical response to a very different one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This may predispose to an increased risk of intracranial haemorrhage , necrotising enterocolitis , hypoxia and acidosis . |
| 23 | This may look like a 1300 cc Fiesta , but a glimpse in the bonnet reveals an 1800 cc diesel engine and the car 's number plate was from a stolen police car . |
| 24 | This may look like a thirteen hundred cc Fiesta , but a glimpse in the bonnet reveals an 1800 cc diesel engine and the car 's number plate was from a stolen police car . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This may occur in the same physical configuration as that of Fig. 3.16 ( p. 81 ) used for calculating the torque upon a single turn of current-carrying wire . |
| 28 | This may point to a powerful repressed feeling which we fear will overwhelm us . |
| 29 | This may point to the fundamental difference between Gandhi 's ideal of sarvodaya , the welfare of all , and Mill 's utilitarian axiom . |
| 30 | This may apply to a particular period or it may be concerned with changes over a long period of time . |