Example sentences of "this [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may lead both author and reader into difficulties unless one point is emphasized and remembered : the terms " teacher " , " media specialist " , " educational technologist " , and " librarian " , are not necessarily mutually exclusive . |
| 2 | The particular point of interest ( Table 12b ) is the extent of any difference between the attitudes of people who are not using or have not used a type of credit , and the attitudes of those who have : when the attitudes of non-users are different , this may suggest either a misapprehension , or sometimes some genuine difference — in either case , perhaps worth further exploration . |
| 3 | This may appear somewhat surprising . |
| 4 | This may cost more at the time but could save a good deal of money in the long run . |
| 5 | But this may assume too much . |
| 6 | This may throw more light on the mechanism of action of the alcoholic beverages on the gastric mucosa and possibly on other organs . |
| 7 | This may involve either the misappropriation of confidential information or the breach of a fiduciary duty of confidentiality . |
| 8 | This may reflect either the decreased mobility of older people or a decline in the number of friends and/or family available for visiting . |
| 9 | For instance , childhood conduct disorder may often lead to anti-social behaviour in adulthood , but this may reflect either the continuity of the disorder or the different effects of the same social stress acting first upon a child and later upon an adult ( Graham , 1983 ) . |
| 10 | A ‘ practitioner ’ view was also identified which was pragmatic , accepting elements of both the major value positions outlined here but being more aware of the need for different approaches in different individual cases , and more concerned about matters of detailed practice than of principle ( though this may mean simply that values and principles were not made explicit ) . |
| 11 | This may mean simply that a bilingual speaker will quote the actual words of another speaker in the original language . |
| 12 | In practice , this may mean as little as insisting on modest changes in decision-making procedures and modes of academic debate ; or it may mean as much as the sacrifice of a whole way of life for activism in some major political cause . |
| 13 | This may mean directly asking an elder for an account of her or his behaviour , and , after discussion with the person , forming a provisional judgement . |
| 14 | In patients taking insulin this may mean deliberately inducing hypoglycaemia under controlled circumstances . |
| 15 | This may change soon , though . |
| 16 | This may change later this year with the first ‘ second-generation ’ RDS set incorporating RDS-EON ( enhanced other networks ) function . |
| 17 | Most of the current partnerships in further and higher education ( FHE ) are of this nature , even if the inter-relationships of the parties are complicated , even complex , because the employer contribution usually relates to the financial state of the firm and this may change abruptly . |
| 18 | Although in general the evidence suggests that it is usually the man 's retirement that provokes most friction , this may change as more of today 's working wives turn sixty and find themselves facing the same need to make difficult adjustments . |
| 19 | Much depends on the determination of workers to defend jobs and conditions , and factors like this may alter considerably over time . |
| 20 | This may stem partly from ignorance about specific techniques but some of it goes back further to past failures at school with arithmetic . |
| 21 | If two similar viruses infect the same cell , their genes will recombine , and this may confer either the short-term or long-term advantages outlined above . |
| 22 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 23 | This may continue right through to the toddler stage , when she finds herself still attending to every cry , day and night . |
| 24 | This may arise even in circumstances where there is a knowledge of BSL and therefore some way of encoding its meaning . |
| 25 | Local fluctuations in price are usually short-lived , and the result of a recent surfeit or scarcity of sales in a particular market ; this may affect either rugs in general or just specific groups . |
| 26 | This may sound rather ominous but it is simply one of those periods when adverse planetary activity calls for a tighter grip on the purse-strings . |
| 27 | This may sound rather woolly , but it is in fact the instrumental arguments which tend to be woolly in failing to show the relationship between instrumental means ( more business studies graduates ) and desirable ends ( more happiness , justice , freedom ) . |
| 28 | This may sound rather wishy-washy , but it can be extremely effective . |
| 29 | Now , this may sound also , but when you 've got to pay five hundred pounds out a year , and you 've got to fund raise and do it , often for young families this is a consideration . |
| 30 | All this may sound very complicated . |