Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun sg] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , impossible to separate out processes acting at different scales and over different periods : a single volcanic eruption lasting hours or days sometimes leads to dust and gas being ejected into the atmosphere over a period of months and this in turn may lead to global climatic fluctuations over years or decades . |
| 2 | The most important general example is the use of modified historic-cost accounting in Britain and Australia which systematically overstates profits by understating the value of real capital , and this in turn may lead to inadequate retention of operating surpluses and the winding down of the assets of the business . |
| 3 | This in turn may tend to downgrade the less easily assessable aspects of the educational process . |
| 4 | This in turn may make it difficult for the manager to evoke commitment and enthusiasm . |
| 5 | This in turn may influence the singing of a congregation , and make it flabby and dull . |
| 6 | On the other hand , transmission mechanisms may work by changing the perceptions of costs and benefits made at the ‘ working level ’ of management , and this in turn may create upward pressures in the organization for strategic management to bring its policies into line . |
| 7 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 8 | This in turn may have been caused by the fact that the gastropod that previously controlled the echinoderm was prized by human tourists . |
| 9 | This in turn may have given rise to the high temperature metamorphism and calc-alkaline intrusions of the southern part of the Scottish Highlands and their prolongation in Ireland . |
| 10 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 11 | This in turn may help us to postulate structures beneath the surface , sequences and relations of acts , which may help us to go further towards finding the answer to our original problem : what is it that makes stretches of language coherent and communicative ? |
| 12 | In a laboratory context , the isolation of the respondent during a T 1 — T 2 period of a few hours should remove this effect ; even changes such as sunlight may need to be eliminated . |
| 13 | Even matters such as immobility may have emotional rather than medical origins . |
| 14 | The contrast may therefore serve to illustrate one major merit of Brooks 's criticism and of the New Criticism in general : their use of ideas such as irony may seem exaggerated and confusing , but it makes the important point that the meaning of poetry , though possibly analyzable , can not be expressed properly in the form of a conventional prosaic statement . |
| 15 | The amount of manufacturing employment in a city is important in the sense that those cities with a great many in industry may encounter the greatest loss of jobs . |
| 16 | Those with dementia may attend the day hospital for the elderly one day a week and may be supported in the community by one of two specialist psychiatric nurses . |
| 17 | People with mental disorder have very special emotional needs and those with schizophrenia may find it virtually impossible to form close , mutually rewarding relationships ; indeed , they often feel more comfortable with an accepting , tolerant but ‘ arm 's length ’ relationship where emotional demands are few . |