Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [prep] course [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 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 .
5 Thus a diatomic molecule ( N = 2 ) , which must of course be linear , has only one mode of vibration , the bond-stretching motion .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ’ .
9 It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips .
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