Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The A&R people will listen to them at their own convenience , which may be at midnight after a gig or on a flight across the Atlantic . |
| 32 | pluggers exist to exploit the middle ground of those record releases which may be a hit , depending on whether radio producers and presenters are prepared to give them a ‘ run ’ . |
| 33 | But it is also about the unstable evolution both of homo erectus and his culture , all of which may be a vast illusion if what man does is simply continue his savagery while trying to repeat faint echoes of some suspect original grandeur . |
| 34 | Claiming that he is not ‘ presenting any idyllic picture of the rural parish ’ , Eliot takes as his ‘ norm , the ideal of a small and mostly self-contained group attached to the soil … with a kind of unity which may be designed , but which also has to grow through generations ’ . |
| 35 | Remove any old sealing compound which may be present on the bath close to the tap fixing . |
| 36 | Which would you choose ? ( 3 ) There is now a rumour that the family has another house , which may be used for organizing the syndicate , in addition to/ instead of the house you are observing , but you do n't know the location of the other house . |
| 37 | In addition to rot and insect attack which may be regarded as defects intrinsic to timber , problems also arise from the way timber elements of traditional buildings were assembled . |
| 38 | Those who practise these branches of study often mistake them for spheres of knowledge when they are more accurately seen as examples of dialectic or rhetoric — ideas which may be better aired in talk . |
| 39 | This is a problem which may be solved in Government time , ’ he said . |
| 40 | But it is still a very large sum indeed , which may be viewed with some in credulity by the millions of lower paid people who have been hit by the Government 's attitudes on , for example , child benefits . |
| 41 | There are also likely to be provisions against losses on swap deals with local councils , which may be over £50million . |
| 42 | Following the on-site inspection , the findings are analysed and the Surveyor prepares his written report , giving the purchaser a clear picture of the property 's condition and information of the important defects which will need immediate attention and those which may be required in the medium to long term . |
| 43 | It was the solicitor 's function to investigate the draft contract and to examine very closely the issues which may be raised by it which were often incomprehensible to the layman . |
| 44 | It is worth your while to obtain detailed quotations at the outset and to insist upon a further quotation for any work which may be added to the schedule as you go along . |
| 45 | Extrawurst p14/ A smoked German sausage which may be eaten hot or cold |
| 46 | In the area at the front of the skull are connecting sacs which enable the dolphin to cut off one or all of the four high-frequency signals which may be in operation . |
| 47 | Governments must both deliver economic success — hard enough — and yet avoid too much short-term social injustice , which may be harder still . |
| 48 | Its results are weapons already far better than needed to defeat second-rate enemies , which may be the only ones to worry about once the Soviet Union has imploded . |
| 49 | This right he can enforce not only by action , but also by a form of self-help known as distress , the seizure of any goods , whether belonging to the tenant or a stranger , which may be found on the premises . |
| 50 | Many of the cases involve compassionate assistance , of the kind which may be necessary and justifiable if the right to self-determination is to have any meaning for those who are weak or bedridden ( e.g. responding to a request to bring pills ) , but not all are like this . |
| 51 | If the aim of the rules of the road is to protect safety , and if the driver broke those rules in a way which may be labelled ‘ reckless ’ , then the risk has been taken and the sentence should not be affected significantly by the materialization or non-materialization of the risk . |
| 52 | Section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 creates a serious offence which may be committed in a number of different ways . |
| 53 | This is most evident in cases of indecent assault , which may be committed by the least unwanted touching or stroking of one person 's body by another . |
| 54 | Section 1 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 contains an elaborately worded offence which may be termed ‘ child neglect ’ . |
| 55 | It is open to the obvious objection that it focuses on an outcome which may be a matter of pure chance : if such driving happens not to result in death , the charge will merely be drunken driving . |
| 56 | There is a crime of gross indecency with or towards a child under 14 , which may be committed even though there is no indecent assault on the child by the adult — by inviting the child to touch the genitalia of the adult , for example . |
| 57 | Such then , in extremely broad terms , is the essence of the nature-culture opposition , an opposition which , as I hope to show , provides one clue as to the perceived gender differentials in blood within Judaism and which may be of help in establishing an ( oppositional ) link between circumcision and menstrual taboo . |
| 58 | With the exception of round carrots , which may be sown in first in pots , and kohl rabi , which is not a true root , all root crops are sown directly into the ground because their tap roots will be misshapen if transplanted . |
| 59 | Models , with sloping sides , on the other hand , allow better light transmission which may be critical if you want to grow winter crops like lettuce . |
| 60 | To connect these two points , I would stress the obvious point which may be forgotten when one simply looks at the fortunes of particular party organizations . |