Example sentences of "[Wh det] may [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , he is concerned here with speech , and not with language in general , which may of course encompass gestural systems or systems such as those used by the ape language experimenters . |
| 2 | The fundamental one in an investigation of this kind is that we do not need to accept any prior assumption about how society at large is organized or structured , and so in our interpretation we do not need to import any presuppositions from theories of social class and social structure or taxonomies of class or status , which may of course be controversial . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , two categories of influence role can be identified : * External influences , which can include : your company 's salespeople ; salespeople from competing suppliers ; journalists and professionals writing in trade and specialist journals ; individual representatives at trade shows and exhibitions ; influential individuals in companies competing with the potential purchaser 's company ; influential associates and people with significant reputations whose Opinions are listened to and adopted , perhaps in professional bodies such as engineering , Computing , marketing , ACCOUNTANCY , etc. * internal influences , which may of course include gatekeepers and users , described above . |
| 4 | Workers at all levels face a future which may of necessity or choice embrace a number of quite different careers . |
| 5 | L and T have promised to keep to their obligations , the covenants , for the whole period of their lease — which may of course be for the next thousand years . |
| 6 | no , no , it was just a bound to be a cos you see , let me explain something to you until you gave evidence today , certainly I did n't and maybe others did n't realize in this court room that what were looking at is that one edition of the brochure which may of had several editions , do you understand ? |
| 7 | It 'll complicate negotiations between Mr DeKlerk and Mr Mandela if at the same time as those negotiations continue , er Mrs Mandela is on trial which may of course be prolonged . |
| 8 | This is the idea that denunciation can help to reduce the incidence of crime — a notion which may at first seem somewhat obscure , but which has a distinguished intellectual pedigree . |
| 9 | Nowadays , diabetes is understood and in general is accepted even though hypoglycaemic ( too little sugar in the blood ) attacks , from taking too much insulin relative to body requirements , can result in strange behaviour which may at times have tragic consequences , as indeed can misdiagnosis ( usually as drunkenness ) from hyperglycaemia ( too much sugar in the blood ) in untreated diabetes . |
| 10 | The chapter is another lesson in the value of exploring perspectivcs which may at first seem wholly incompatible . |
| 11 | 3.8.1 pay and indemnify the Landlord against all fees charges and other payments whatever which may at any time be payable to any local or other competent authority in respect of the Tenant 's Works |
| 12 | Certainly those who had been accused of witchcraft or committed suicide could not be buried in the churchyard : second best was usually the crossroads , a memory perhaps of some measure of sanctity which may over time have become attached to leys because of their association with other sacred sites . |
| 13 | For instance , the right reserved under paragraph 1 of the third schedule to this lease refers to " Pipes which may during the term be … under … the Premises " . |
| 14 | In that last respect , however , they were like practically everyone else on the island , which may in itself be a reason why we should not be quick to decide that their behaviour lacked political significance , and consisted of antics . |
| 15 | It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart . |
| 16 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 18 | Culturally and linguistically , Britain offers a nexus of increasingly plural possibilities , a promising ground for a postmodernism which may in the future develop more strongly in Britain than it has hitherto . |
| 19 | However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power . |
| 20 | whether this is only a temporary down-turn which may in the end not necessitate redundancies on the scale now envisaged ; |
| 21 | Echosounders calibrated for sea water over read slightly in fresh water , which may in part explain the exceptional reading . |
| 22 | Apart from this quibble , I do find that the whole performance has a slightly veiled and subdued quality about it , which may in part be attributable to microphone placement and the dull acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall , but may equally be the result of both orchestra and conductor being reluctant to take risks on such an auspicious occasion . |
| 23 | The gunners claimed two Ju88s shot down , one of which may in fact have been an He111H of 6/KG 26 , which failed to return to base on this date . |
| 24 | It should also be noted that breaches tend to have a ‘ ripple effect ’ and that a practitioner who does not fully understand his obligations has only to proffer one piece of investment advice ( which may in itself be perfectly sound ) and he will almost certainly have breached several regulations in the process . |
| 25 | The whole program is based on a system of menus and sub menus , so whatever you select from the main menu will in most cases lead you to a sub menu , which may in turn lead you to another sub menu and so on , until the necessary choices have been made . |
| 26 | The end product is a very elastic form of ribbing , with a surface interest all its own , which may in turn be further patterned by using the electronic selection available . |
| 27 | At present , the recogniser gives an indication of zone ( ‘ u ’ , ‘ m ’ or ‘ l ’ ) for each candidate letter , ( which may in fact not match the usual zone for that letter ) . |
| 28 | We need to understand how and why male fantasies may commonly differ from female ones , and why the sorts of fantasies I have mentioned , which may in some ways seem antithetical to feminism , may still have a strong appeal to women who have a feminist allegiance . |
| 29 | As we demonstrated in our previous book , moreover , the wedding at Cana — which may in fact have been Jesus 's own wedding — was not a modest village affair , but a sumptuous ceremony of the gentry or aristocracy . |
| 30 | For example , lexical knowledge may be twice as ’ important ’ as syntactic knowledge , which may in turn be twice as ’ important ’ as semantic knowledge ( evidently , these magnitudes will vary according to the specific application and particular data ) . |