Example sentences of "[Wh det] may [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It corresponds to a tension within human thought which may persist indefinitely de facto , but which has no basis de jure . |
| 2 | He might also have added the examples he cited earlier of the ‘ material content of the cultural tradition ’ , such as cave-paintings and hand-axes , since these also serve as repositories of meaning which may persist over time . |
| 3 | Stainless steel cleaners : Many products so described are polishes or include substances which may leave undesirable residues on food contact surfaces . |
| 4 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 5 | These present a different kind of expressive difficulty , which may leave the worker feeling even more helpless . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) A general immunity , possessed by all persons and bodies , from being compelled on pain of punishment to answer questions the answers to which may incriminate them . |
| 7 | ‘ Faced with the myriad opportunities for the concealment of fraudulent activities which companies and trusts provide , Parliament has given the Serious Fraud Office the power to call upon a suspected person to come into the open , and to disclose information which may incriminate him . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) A general immunity , possessed by all persons and bodies , from being compelled on pain of punishment to answer questions the answers to which may incriminate them . |
| 9 | This appeal is concerned with the second right to silence , an immunity from being compelled on pain of punishment to answer questions which may incriminate . |
| 10 | The theme will be environmental protection in the widest sense which may embrace topics such as safety , reduced energy consumption , waste disposal ( incineration or specialised degradable polymers ) and reduced emissions by improved control . |
| 11 | But antiracist activities encapsulate one final problem which may outlive them . |
| 12 | When less fluid lavas are involved , which do n't break up into droplets , large gobbets of the molten rock are flung up from the vent , spreading out into irregular plates which may break up in the air into smaller bits . |
| 13 | If you 've got a bigger surgery which may break into that third week |
| 14 | In this view , the solution to pauperism lay in ‘ eugenics ’ , defined by its founder , Francis Galton , as ‘ the study of agencies under social control which may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations ’ . |
| 15 | Jobs are often not secure so any new technology which may improve productivity is resisted as it threatens employment . |
| 16 | More importantly , there are constraints specific to the public sector and to regulated firms , as discussed in the next two chapters , which may improve their efficiency . |
| 17 | The concept of eugenics was defined by its founder , Francis Galton , in the early 1880s as the ‘ study of those agencies under social control , which may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations . ’ |
| 18 | The tutorial is completely distinct from an ‘ audition ’ class ; the object of the tutorial is to help a student concentrate on speeches and scenes which may extend aspects of characterisation or improve his/her vocal range , and also to increase confidence . |
| 19 | Severe bruising to the ribs can not be satisfactorily dressed or protected within the rules of competition , but female competitors can use breast shields which may extend over the injury site . |
| 20 | Discoveries in the latter , along the ridge of gravel between the Thames and the Cherwell during the course of building work , indicate a spread of occupation of possibly 100 acres and which may extend even further to the north and west . |
| 21 | Further , the need for many victims to bring a civil action against the perpetrator requires continuing contact with the offender which may extend for years in a protracted case . |
| 22 | Small invertebrates such as polycheate worms , shrimps and other crustaceans are also fair game for most invertebrate feeders and some of the more cosmopolitan species such as boxfish , puffers and triggerfish have an appetite which may extend to shelled molluscs , fanworms and even spiny sea urchins . |
| 23 | Adler v. George shows that statutes may be read not only against the background of notions of justice and settled legal principle ( which tend to limit their operation ) but also against the background of notions of ordinary common sense ( which may extend their operation ) . |
| 24 | Yet real materials , made up from atoms , have cohesive forces which have a finite range which may extend far beyond nearest neighbours , and , as we pointed out earlier , for polymers may extend along the chains for very large distances . |
| 25 | The leading central banks are expected to redouble their efforts to push down the dollar once the German decision is announced — something which may ease pressure on the pound if it changes the focus of attention in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 26 | Among the manifestations of these attitudes are the statements of some defendants in rape trials , which may show an indifference towards the wishes of women , or a belief that the wearing of attractive clothes or an invitation to coffee is a sure sign of willingness to engage in sex ; and the attitudes of some police-officers in the early 1980s , influenced by any one of a number of assumptions about the prevalence of false complaints of rape , about the ‘ typical ’ rape as an attack by a stranger , about the presence of injuries or bruises in ‘ genuine ’ rapes , and so forth . |
| 27 | Tomorrow in Cape Town there takes place a confrontation which may show which way things are going to go : Mr Vorster is meeting the Chief Ministers of all the ‘ homelands ’ . |
| 28 | The reasons for failure are more likely to be due to people problems , which may show themselves by the lack of cooperation when the information system is being developed and a resistance to the changes that occur when the application is implemented . |
| 29 | In my view the dock company is not entitled to any statutory immunities which may attach to the port authority . |
| 30 | It is clear that under a system of well-conceived planning the resolution of competing claims and the allocation of land for the various requirements must proceed on the basis of selecting the most suitable land for the particular purpose , irrespective of the existing values which may attach to the individual parcels of land . |