Example sentences of "this may [vb infin] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | This may lead to the whole group moving , tugged along by a complex web of bonds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However unsatisfactory this may appear to the haulier wishing to protect his business , this is the state of the law . |
| 8 | This may link with the lower average level of technical qualification among the UK chief executive officers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This may point to the fundamental difference between Gandhi 's ideal of sarvodaya , the welfare of all , and Mill 's utilitarian axiom . |
| 12 | This may account for the regular citation in the Commissioner 's Annual Reports of several applications ‘ not pursued ’ by the applicants . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This may conflict with the chronological age , and the person may switch backwards and forwards from one age to another , so it requires alertness to work out what the person is feeling . |
| 18 | The aim is to minimise costs in the very long term but the important question is the extent to which this may conflict with the short-run costs of pursuing diversity . |