Example sentences of "which may [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ARB locking diff is an excellent device and will allow you to reach places with ease which may otherwise be difficult to get to . |
| 2 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 3 | Exclusive licence agreements ( whether of patented goods , trademarks or other intellectual property interests ) which allow new markets to be penetrated or new products to be licensed , which may otherwise not be so exploited , to be exploited or launched |
| 4 | Due to the high resistance and small current involved in this circuit , and to preserve battery life , it is now beneficial to clean the copper side of the circuit board with a rag soaked in meths to remove finger grease which may otherwise cause leakage currents to flow . |
| 5 | These actions can all be part of letting go of a painful stage of life , and will help the children and family remember happy times which may otherwise be forgotten . |
| 6 | If the dog drops down as commanded then it will be unlikely to disturb the horses , which may otherwise be unnerved and could even attempt to bolt off . |
| 7 | But Lord Justice Woolf has written that , as a result of this case , usually it is not until the application has been heard on the merits that it can be decided whether the applicant has sufficient interest , and it is rare in cases which may otherwise be meritorious for leave to be refused on the ground of lack of standing . |
| 8 | This kind of repetition serves to consolidate the main message of the text ( which may otherwise not be sufficiently evident ) , and can also conveniently serve the ends ( through musical restatement ) of giving a strong , coherent musical form . |
| 9 | The grass roots practitioner can play a major part in the process , by identifying phenomena whose investigation may lead to improvements in teaching and learning , and which may otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 10 | As well as simplifying the relations , normalisation also reduces anomalies which may otherwise occur when manipulating the relations in a relational database . |
| 11 | This aims to protect the biotechnology companies which may otherwise be forced to share the benefits of research and patents with countries in which genetic material is found . |
| 12 | The tenant may wish to avoid responsibility for structural or inherent defects , ie the rectification of faults in the design or construction of a building which may otherwise be passed on to the tenant by virtue of the general effect of a tenant 's covenant to repair . |
| 13 | Simply that erm the new roads will remove the constraint of erm access , poor access from sites which may otherwise be suitable for development in in planning terms . |
| 14 | Five one , new roads will remove constraints of poor excess on sites which may otherwise be acceptable in planning terms . |
| 15 | But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time . |
| 16 | As a consequence there are books on many library shelves which may eventually have to be withdrawn , with or without litigation , not because of their content but because of their intent . |
| 17 | A honey-bee colony , which may eventually contain up to eighty thousand individuals , is founded when a young queen hatches in an existing colony and emigrates , taking half of the workers with her . |
| 18 | Here we are concerned with the basic principles , on which all else depends and which may eventually be applied to longer movements as well as to short sections . |
| 19 | The value of reports on one or two skeletons is not to serve as the basis of any theory of morphological relationships , but to provide standardized data which may eventually be built into a general picture of population at one period or through time . |
| 20 | Eleven regional electricity companies have also announced their support for the scheme , which may eventually be part funded by small surcharges on customers ' bills . |
| 21 | It concerns some issue which may ultimately imply a choice of what to do about it . |
| 22 | And when we examine those repetitive media messages , we find amongst them those which dull , which desensitise , and which may ultimately disinhibit by eroding the internalised constraints which are part and parcel of the civilising process , constraints we used to learn at our mother 's knee , and which we discard at our peril . |
| 23 | In contrast , the actual role of modified linguistic input may be to provide the child with a restricted set of choices , any number or combination of which may ultimately lead to developmental progress . |
| 24 | A Mareva injunction will be available whatever the cause of action , provided that it is one which may ultimately lead to enforcement against the defendant 's assets ; it would not be available where the relief sought was purely declaratory . |
| 25 | The more complicated the decision space of the program , the more sophisticated will be the optimum driving system which may ultimately need most of the features of the full graphics-oriented database management system . |
| 26 | In the second case the land speculator with capital may acquire land With hope value land which may control or prevent development of adjoining land such as sight lines or access points , and key parcels of land which may ultimately form part of a larger site . |
| 27 | The earliest stage in the formation of an offshore feature is the deposition of a bank of sand , which may ultimately emerge at high tide . |
| 28 | As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years . |
| 29 | Mr Salmond undoubtedly has a point in arguing , as he did over the weekend , that any demonstrable gain which may ultimately emerge from the deal with Mr Lang was achieved without serious risk of saving the Government from a Commons defeat . |
| 30 | Subject to one very important exception , the English courts will not grant a Mareva injunction unless the plaintiff 's cause of action against the defendant is one which may properly be adjudicated upon in England . |