Example sentences of "which may [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , multiproduct companies will normally have a variety of means open to them for breaking even on their operation , some of which may be approximately equally efficient , so that governmental intervention to choose one amongst them , something facilitated by state ownership , is not necessarily inefficient . |
| 2 | Third World countries often confront this , and some have opted for ‘ high technology ’ ( which may be badly delivered ) at the cost of ordinary treatment . |
| 3 | Gives guidance on the terms under which conditions and obligations can reasonably be imposed on developers , an issue which may be particularly relevant in the argument over the development of ‘ brown ’ areas of the Green Belt . |
| 4 | DisKeeper 1.3 — is a hard disk management utility which may be particularly for network administrators and those users with very large hard disks . |
| 5 | An issue of ordinary shares in the offeror as consideration will permit accepting shareholders to share in future growth ( which may be particularly attractive if the offeror is a high-growth company ) as well as permitting them to participate in the offeror by holding voting shares . |
| 6 | Important constituents of VLDL and chylomicra are three apolipoproteins , namely , apo- C II , C III 1 and C III 2 , which may be either inhibitory ( C III 1 and C III 2 ) or an obligate activator ( C II ) of lipoprotein lipase ( Galton et al , 1982 ) . |
| 7 | This process requires extremely pure syn-gas , which may be either from natural gas ( methane ) or the higher hydrocarbons ( naphtha ) . |
| 8 | This process requires extremely pure syn-gas , which may be either from natural gas ( methane ) or the higher hydro carbons ( naphtha ) . |
| 9 | The helical angle varies between about 6° and about 30° but what is really remarkable is that the direction of the twist or helix — which may be either right — or left-handed — is always the same in any one tree . |
| 10 | There are now over twenty Visa cards on offer — all with different terms and conditions , twelve Mastercards , not to mention some seventeen gold cards ( which may be either a charge card like American Express or Diners Club , or a credit card ) . |
| 11 | This is achieved by constructing a rectangular framework , usually of wood , which may be either of fixed dimensions or adjustable in size . |
| 12 | As well as Dobags , Anatolia produces a wide range of village-standard items , which may be either traditional in appearance or designed specifically for the Western market , and some notable workshop items , particularly from hereke and , to a lesser degree , Kayseria . |
| 13 | Yet as far as discourse structure is concerned , a more fundamental distinction seems to be between formal , planned discourse , which may be either written or spoken , and less formal , unplanned discourse which — though it may also be either written or spoken — is usually associated with speech . |
| 14 | Both stylolites and solution seams transect the cemented sediment and develop perpendicular to the axis of maximum stress , which may be either overburden pressure or tectonic stress . |
| 15 | The feature structures consist of features and associated values which may be either atomic or complex ( i.e. feature structures themselves ) . |
| 16 | A refusal by an undertaking in a dominant position to supply another undertaking which may be economically dependent on the first undertaking . |
| 17 | The West German system is at the same time a plurality or " first-past.the-post " system , a list system and an additional member system : in short a mixed system , which may be conveniently designated in the following pages by the initials WGMS . |
| 18 | The relevant questions should not concern how local ‘ culture ’ forms local politics , but how this ‘ culture ’ itself is formed , how it is sustained or transformed , and how it affects local political activity in conjunction with a host of other structures and practices , some of which may be locally based and some of which may not . |
| 19 | An A horizon is often underlain by an Eg horizon which may be well defined in semi-natural soils . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Our terms of reference used the title ‘ media studies ’ , which may be best reserved for specialist study . |
| 22 | ‘ Informal carers ’ is the term used in official documents to describe close supporting relatives though it is not a good term ‘ informal ’ implies that the task is done by choice in a rather casual fashion , which is rarely the case , and ‘ carer ’ implies an embracing emotional commitment which may be wholly inaccurate . |
| 23 | ‘ The inconvenience arising from cold in the most carefully constructed railway carriage , where a long journey has to be performed in the winter season , suggested to the directors the necessity of fixing a warming apparatus in the bed of the carriage , and Mr. Perkins , the inventor of the steam gun , has accordingly fitted a very ingenious apparatus for the purpose of heating the carriage , which may be thus briefly described : — a coil of pipe placed near the hinder axletree , and supplied with water from a small cistern in the bed of the carriage , is kept heated by means of a lamp with four burners . |
| 24 | Yet the choice of such a neutral form is as much a linguistic choice as any other , and may have implications which may be fruitfully examined in stylistics : the third-person pronoun , for example , distances the author and the reader from the character it denotes . |
| 25 | The stream of particles generates a series of pulses of current , up to 5,000 s -1 , which may be automatically recorded as numbers and particle volumes . |
| 26 | A number of researchers have suggested that previous exemplars of complex driving situations are represented as concepts or schemata which may be automatically activated upon encountering new situations ( e.g. Dubois , 1991 ; Fleury , Mazet & Dubois , 1988 ; Groeger , 1988 , 1989 ; Riemersma , 1988 ) . |
| 27 | Breeding was proved on a total of 36 waters in the period , most of which may be regularly occupied , although the records show annual fluctuations and breeding is not always proved at all known breeding sites each year . |
| 28 | Whilst Seymour-Ure 's approach is focused on individual case studies , he hints at but does not examine a range of important , but empirically not easily verifiable , effects of mass media in general , and of television in particular : effects which may be both cumulative and long-term . |
| 29 | Process rights can however , as we shall see , be fashioned in other ways which may be both better suited to the needs of particular areas , and ago better attain the instrumental and non-instrumental values which process rights are designed to serve . |
| 30 | The law is called upon to distinguish between information which may be legitimately used to make a stock market trade , and that which may not . |