Example sentences of "[prep] which [noun] may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prostatitis is one of the very few conditions for which doctors may sometimes recommend more sex . |
| 2 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 3 | Restriction of the gestation period within which abortion may legally be performed from the 28 weeks defined in the 1967 Act was frequently urged by abortion reformers , for example to 18 weeks in the failed 1988 Private Members Bill by David Alton MP . |
| 4 | The idea that companies should be viewed as social enterprises does not depend on a theory specifically about the nature of the corporate form , but , as has been mentioned , on a theory about the circumstances in which power may legitimately be held . |
| 5 | We have already pointed to the way in which stratification may well inhibit the full development of talent in a society as a result of inequality of opportunity , which inevitably means that a stratified society is not utilising its talent resources fully . |
| 6 | Of course , these statistics are crude , but they strongly suggest a world in which war may often have seemed prohibitively expensive , especially once it came to be realised that Æthelred 's military operations tended to be unsuccessful . |
| 7 | ‘ We do not think it is possible to deny that there are circumstances in which individuals may justifiably choose to enter into a homosexual relationship ... [ although ] such a relationship could not be regarded as the moral or social equivalent of marriage . ' |
| 8 | I see that I ( who had written the statement in favour of the ordination of women to the priesthood which was circulated to all members of the Synod before the vote , l5 a statement to which Leonard may well in part have been responding ) wrote in the margin of my copy of his speech : ‘ Have microscopes . ’ |
| 9 | If this is right , then it seems that there is , as Butler ( 1984 ) puts it , " no point at which interpretation may reasonably stop " ( 1984 : 20 ) . |