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Identify tentative expression in the following sentences. Circle the expression.

1. Escherichia coli, when found in conjunction with urethritis, often indicate
infection higher in the uro-genital tract.
2. For our present purpose, it is useful to distinguish two kinds of chemical
reaction, according to whether the reaction releases energy or requires it.
3. These differences may be due to the fact participants reporting higher
consumption levels were primed to overrate their weekly drinking by the
condition they were in.
4. The idea of 'community' in terms of GRT lives is very strong and could be seen
to correspond to some of the nostalgic constructs that non-GRT groups place
on 'community'.
5. However, attrition was greatest among the heaviest drinking segment of the
sample, suggesting under-estimation in the findings, and although the study
provided associational, prospective evidence on alcohol advertising effects on
youth drinking, it addressed limitations of other research, particularly the
unreliability of exposure measures based on self-reporting (Synder & Slater,
2006).
Taken from http://www.uefap.com/writing/feature/featfram.htm and
http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/Hedging/Hedging.html

After you are able to identify tentative expressions used in a sentence, now, try
to fill the blank with any possible tentative expression.

1. It can be _________________ that, for young adult males, the portrayal of
alcohol on a television screen might lead to increased alcohol consumption.
2. The present results further _________________ that the estimated effect of
body fatness on LVM depends largely on the particular combination of body-
size and body-fatness predictors chosen for the LVM models.
3. There is no difficulty in explaining how a structure such as an eye or a
feather contributes to survival and reproduction; the difficulty is in thinking
of a series of steps by which it _________________ arisen.
4. It is _________________ that after the placebo preload, participants became
more wary of the task, perhaps owing to the previous experience of having
to inhibit responses suddenly after the habit-forming in blocks 2 and 4.
5. _________________ of these findings _________________ be that, if moderation
of alcohol consumption in certain groups is strived for, it _________________
be sensible to cut down on the portrayal of alcohol in programs aimed at
these groups and the commercials shown in between.
Taken from http://www.uefap.com/writing/feature/featfram.htm and
http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/Hedging/Hedging.html

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