Example sentences of "which [modal v] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Money from the National Lottery and from private and public donations , will be needed to finance the building , which may cost up to £100 million . |
| 32 | For example , a larger combination microwave which may cost over £3500 is ideal for turning over consistently large batches . |
| 33 | These include possible reductions in care in the community owing to inadequate funding and the knock on effects on hospitals , which may face even greater difficulties in returning elderly people to the community than at present . |
| 34 | Not surprisingly , therefore , entrepreneurs and managers can become locked into an existing company structure which may perform not particularly well but adequately enough to survive , or to survive while its position is steadily being undermined by import penetration . |
| 35 | Ministers from the 12 EC countries unveiled a new system which may involve around 40 multi-million pound takeovers being subject to the approval of the European Commission in Brussels each year . |
| 36 | The sociologist then finds that this general picture ( the theory ) suggests certain ideas which may explain why non-Christians wish to have their babies undergo a ceremony in a religious belief to which they themselves do not subscribe . |
| 37 | Mr Brandreth was President of the Oxford Union in 1968 and stayed on the following year , a high profile position which may explain why Mr Clinton remembers him . |
| 38 | In 1939 fashions were similar to the 1960s vogue , which may explain why Mr Cross believed the girl was real rather than an apparition . |
| 39 | But , just as there is evidence that Group VI axes were being quarried from the parent rock , there is some evidence of contact between south-west Scotland and eastern England at this time , which may explain why at least some of the whetstones have been transported up to 400 km from the parent rock . |
| 40 | As a result he is very fat and suffers from constant agony due to chronic indigestion , which may explain why he is so fierce . |
| 41 | Susceptibility to the toxic effects of paracetamol taken in overdose differs between people , which may explain why some patients survive having taken large amounts of paracetamol while others die having taken only a few tablets more than the eight tablets ( 4 g ) a day recommended by the manufacturers . |
| 42 | As will be discussed below , NCp7 shows cooperativity in binding to DNA , which may explain why the shorter fragments competed less efficiently for NCp7 than the longer DNA fragments . |
| 43 | The invading army was evidently homeward bound and perhaps disinclined for a renewed engagement , which may explain why Cadafael ( HB ch. 65 ) and Oethelwald ( HE 111 , 24 ) withdrew before battle was joined . |
| 44 | The cause was never known but affected soldiers all had close contact with soil — which may explain why the cavalry and officers were rarely affected . |
| 45 | Even those who were royal servants , like Archbishop Reynolds himself , by their efforts in the preceding months and years to reconcile king and barons had demonstrated their concern with the peace of the community , which may explain also why they thought it prudent to prefer the Despensers — able royal servants that they were — to the unpredictable and scarcely less disruptive earl of Lancaster . |
| 46 | There is the damage to government systems of social responsibility which may slide back into selfish chaos . |
| 47 | Colds settle in the nose which may stuff up at night with much sneezing and blows out mucus and often blood ; nosebleeds with every cold . |
| 48 | Records relate to coasting movements , which are difficult to evaluate and some of which may refer only to local movements , and both immigration and emigration in in spring and autumn . |
| 49 | Nevertheless , certain features of the gaol I saw seemed to reveal something more fundamental about imprisonment than did the state of the drains or other physical conditions , which may vary widely between institutions or , indeed , in the same institution over time . |
| 50 | The body pattern is golden brown and the fish is marked with chocolate coloured spots which may vary considerably between individuals . |
| 51 | Because the novel relies on prior literary knowledge , each individual reading will necessarily be the idiosyncratic result of an interaction between the proper names given and the reader 's capacity to ‘ round out ’ these names by furnishing them with personalities and circumstantial details ( which may vary considerably even between readers who have read the same texts ) . |
| 52 | Ultimately , the Laws of Negligence ( which may vary considerably according to the jurisdiction involved ) will influence the standards . |
| 53 | The purpose is not to anticipate what claims B will make in his application to the Commission , which may range far beyond the concerns of the present article . |
| 54 | A special interest is in ‘ flashpoints ’ : small scale incidents which may trigger off reactions from those not immediately involved . |
| 55 | The largest Authoritative Guide to Periodicals available in N. America — including periodicals , which may originate elsewhere but are distributed in N. America by associate or subsidiary companies of the parent publisher . |
| 56 | ‘ I have a suggestion for you , which may lead nowhere , but may at least be worth a try . |
| 57 | Is life the countervailing force , now pitiably weak but always improving from its lowly origins , which may lead eventually to a future beyond even the imagination of men like Boltzmann ? |
| 58 | Blockage of these results in circulatory impediment which may lead eventually to congestive cardiac failure . |
| 59 | There are also fears that the increased tourist traffic will bring introduced plant and animal species which may bring about the extinction of endemic species . |
| 60 | Since the conductivity is very low , precise techniques would need to be developed for its measurement , which may present very difficult problems to be overcome , but the research programme would be complete once the relevant information had been obtained . |