Example sentences of "and which may be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a letter to members , the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association warns against schemes ‘ with no guarantee of adequate resources ; which may blur the process of professional development with the identification of alleged weaknesses for disciplinary purposes ; and which may be used as a crude and inequitable process for relating salary rates to arbitrarily judged levels of performance ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be wrong for water users in the next five to ten years to be asked to finance the whole cost of projects which have been neglected in the past and which may be expected to last for 30 , 50 or even 100 years . |
| 4 | This is a typical psychological reaction , i.e. one which is said to cause ‘ a reversible alteration in mood , behaviour , attitude , or thought processes of which the subject is or may become aware and which may be favourable or unfavourable ’ . |
| 5 | Without getting into these deep and murky waters , let me say that problem solving uses thinking , but that solving a genuine problem usually requires some creative act , ranging from the flash of insight that illuminates the entire problem to the glimmer of light that shows a direction to pursue ( and which may be a will o' the wisp ) . |
| 6 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
| 7 | As far as acquisition of language is concerned , it seems clear that reinforcement , casual observation , and natural inquisitiveness ( coupled with a strong tendency to imitate ) are important factors , as is the remarkable capacity of the child to generalise , hypothesise and ‘ process information ’ in a variety of very special and apparently highly complex ways which we can not yet describe or begin to understand , and which may be largely innate , or may develop through some sort of learning or through maturation of the nervous system . |
| 8 | To argue , therefore , that changes in newspapers — in their content , style , readership , etc. — may be undesirable ( e.g. ‘ deradicalization ’ , ‘ depoliticization ’ ) is to confuse that which one may desire ( and which may be socially desirable ) with the actual and real choices which individuals and groups make in the market-place . |
| 9 | It might have been a very worthy course to stay in England and incessantly work for peace : but I had one traditionally acquired or inherited prejudice , which many will think foolish and which may be logically diffilcult to defend . |
| 10 | Think of the male statues which are even now being exposed at Sydenham without adequate covering and which may be viewed by innocent girls ! " |
| 11 | The percentage of effective votes , that is votes which clearly contributed to the election of a candidate and which may be regarded as a measure of voter satisfaction , throughout the Province remained unchanged at nearly 88% . |
| 12 | Let us begin with a road which seems to lead nowhere , and which may be dangerous to follow . |
| 13 | Well there are monitoring systems which are meant to be in place a and which may be er are not are not effective enough erm . |
| 14 | An upperplate margin is formed by crust lying above the detachment fault while a lower-plate margin is developed on deeper crustal rocks lying below the detachment zone and which may be overlain by faulted fragments of the upper plate . |