Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [prep] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | The typical sequence for passive rifting is rifting followed by volcanism , which may in turn be succeeded by uplift . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Any one network junction has topological neighbours , that is , junctions connected to it along a common chain , but it also possesses spatial neighbour junctions — junctions which may in fact be nearer to it in the continuum space but which belong to other chains . |
| 9 | National organizations , which should in fact be setting an example in good sensitive design and leading the way in enhancing the urban environment , are all too often blind to local needs . |
| 10 | Mall operators argue that the Sally Army must be banned , or the precedent would allow a flood of other charitable panhandlers to invade their territory , and solicit a little of the money which should by rights be the monopoly of the retailers . |
| 11 | Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species . |
| 12 | Thus a diatomic molecule ( N = 2 ) , which must of course be linear , has only one mode of vibration , the bond-stretching motion . |
| 13 | The aim was cooperation to secure ‘ social redemptive work ’ which must by nature be ‘ thoroughly and systematically undertaken ’ . |
| 14 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 15 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 16 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 17 | Often the result is that the child , and subsequently the adult , in order to avoid punishment , will suppress feelings which might in fact be quite normal and natural , and indeed necessary to the human condition . |
| 18 | Concept keyboards allow areas of an overlay , which could for example be a historical map or a picture , to be touched by the pupil , calling up associated sub-screens of data or questions about the feature in question . |
| 19 | The prospectus for the Nineties with which his book concludes is a thoughtful text which could with benefit be read by anyone interested in foreign affairs . |
| 20 | All the activities suggested for video recording are activities with a language learning purpose which could of course be done without the presence of the camera . |
| 21 | As a rule , people do not hear single isolated words , and in the great majority of cases any word we hear is preceded by a context which could in principle be used to assist word recognition . |
| 22 | In the process , the project should generate an appropriate framework for thinking about the provision of business support services which could in principle be applied to any locality . |
| 23 | If we were to force the electricity-generating companies to take coal in volumes and at prices that they do not want , the certain consequence would be higher electricity prices for the domestic customer and for the rest of British industry , which could in turn be bad for long-term job prospects . |
| 24 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
| 25 | True , the lawful use of force might then be met with unlawful resistance which would in turn be likely to give rise to harm to the person whose use of force was justified in the first place . |
| 26 | It would then be replaced by an interim government , which would in turn be replaced by a permanent government after four months . |
| 27 | There was now another minority , one which would in fact be the longest of them all , lasting for nineteen years . |
| 28 | Used carefully , however , over an extended period , Indian patronage could permit a politician to capitalise upon feelings of gratitude aroused by acts of seemingly disinterested friendship several years earlier , acts which would in fact be quietly brought to mind by a shrewd politician 's regular enquiries about the activities of his young friend in India . |
| 29 | Certainly , when today 's Unionist leaders call for a " return to democracy " in the province , that is what they have in mind the restoration of simple majority rule , which would in effect be the restoration of Protestant domination . |
| 30 | In other words Gibbs and di Marzio 's temperature T2 should be considered as a theoretically derived equilibrium glass transition temperature which would in theory be attained by an infinitely slow cooling from the melt . |