Example sentences of "[Wh det] it [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Your local social services department should be able to advise you about help which it may provide or know about .
2 Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life .
3 It is not hard to see how attempts to value popular culture or television , or to legitimize their academic study , come up against Adorno and Horkheimer as a check which it may be easier to think around than to think through .
4 For example , the period 1945–51 has come to acquire a retrospective glow which it may not altogether deserve .
5 The movement is one to be welcomed if it proceeds along the right lines , the lines along which it may develop and not hamper national life .
6 One of the main advantages of partnership is the ease with which it may be formed .
7 The status of the proembryo , and the laboratory procedures to which it may or may not be subjected , have been the subject of extensive debates and discussions .
8 Irrespective of whether an agreement or arrangement has been notified to the Commission or a complaint made , it is open to the Commission to launch its own investigation in relation to any agreement , practice or other activity which it may suspect infringes the competition rules .
9 Having corresponded with the member or members concerned , the committee looks at the facts it has obtained and expresses a technical opinion , which it may follow up in various ways .
10 The receipt of bulk payments from the legal aid board may include amounts in respect of unpaid professional disbursements ( which under the SAR are deemed to be client money ) , which it may be impracticable to split into office and client accounts immediately .
11 Wood is affected by liquid water in the form of rain , rivers , seas and so on with which it may come into contact but , more importantly , it is affected by the moisture vapour which is always present in the air .
12 Moore 's approach only makes sense in the context of his belief that any proper thing can be conceived independently of any larger context in which it may figure .
13 It is believed the internal ‘ ANDF-style ’ technology USL has claimed to have may in fact be Echo Logic 's which it may be evaluating .
14 All of these aspects of the production of the text affect its meaning , both from the point of view of the author 's intention and of the most probable interpretation , even before we consider the wider social situations in which it may be encountered .
15 Partly because it is not routinely recorded , relatively little is known about cohabitation and the extent to which it may become an ordinary setting for childbearing before or instead of marriage .
16 The nub of the question as to whether feminism is compatible with Christianity is that of whether a Christology can be found of which it may be said that at least it is not incompatible with feminism .
17 But we need not pause to examine its defects , since there is a stronger and more interesting move with which it may be confused .
18 Physics is interesting in having connotations of both : as a physical science , its discoveries ( and the skills it gives to its graduates ) have obvious uses for industry ; while its status as a ‘ pure ’ rather than an ‘ applied ’ science gives it the appearance of being removed from the uses to which it may be put .
19 Personal property is best linked with communal rather than private property , such as state or kin-held property , since it is a statement of relative inalienability , such that the social subject , individual or collective , associated with the object retains control over the conditions under which it may be alienated .
20 So for its first half-century , after Weisthenes , the Athenian Council was an unpaid elected body , something which gave it an elite character which it may never wholly have lost .
21 The empirical evidence may destroy the reformative aim as a plausible general justification of the penal system , but reform remains a reductivist aim which it may well be right to pursue within a penal system .
22 On the other hand , the mere fact that money is paid under protest will not give rise of itself to the inference of such an agreement ; though it may form part of the evidence from which it may be inferred that the payee did not intend to close the transaction : see Maskell v. Horner [ 1915 ] 3 K.B .
23 ( 11 ) A member to whom a notice under this rule is given may appeal against that notice to the Appeal Tribunal in accordance with Chapter VIII of this Part and the notice shall state that that right exists and the time within which it may be exercised ; and — ( a ) a notice under paragraph ( 9 ) above shall state the reasons why it appears to the board to be desirable for the protection of investors for them to exercise their powers in the manner and in relation to the member in question ; and ( b ) a notice under paragraph ( 10 ) above shall state why the notice under paragraph ( 9 ) is being rescinded or varied .
24 This submission is made on the footing that , under one or more of these paragraphs , the court is given a general discretion to order rectification in any case in which it may be thought just to do so .
25 That being so , I do not think that we ought to attempt beforehand to classify all the occasions upon which it may be proper to make such an order …
26 But its use is not by any means the main function of the books in which it may be necessary , and there is little to be said about it .
27 Composers of new hymn tunes should be discouraged from writing for a traditional text which is either wedded to a well-loved tune or has more than one good tune to which it may be sung .
28 For an object to exist in an ontological sense is to exist in its own right and not merely as an object of thought , but it is not to exist independently of the conditions under which it may be thought of and identifyingly referred to as that particular object and no other .
29 Like a small pale Peregrine , of which it may be only a race , but much paler and more rufous , with crown and nape very rufous. 15–18 in. ( 38–45 cm ) .
30 One direction in which it may move is to replace some existing degree courses by two-year diplomas , though if this comes about it is not likely to be before the late 1980s .
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