Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole program is based on a system of menus and sub menus , so whatever you select from the main menu will in most cases lead you to a sub menu , which may in turn lead you to another sub menu and so on , until the necessary choices have been made . |
| 2 | The end product is a very elastic form of ribbing , with a surface interest all its own , which may in turn be further patterned by using the electronic selection available . |
| 3 | For example , lexical knowledge may be twice as ’ important ’ as syntactic knowledge , which may in turn be twice as ’ important ’ as semantic knowledge ( evidently , these magnitudes will vary according to the specific application and particular data ) . |
| 4 | It is surely a simplification to see the latter simply as ‘ applied ’ sciences ; they embody a different stance and intention , which may in turn generate its own ‘ theories of action ’ , which will be explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | Inevitably this process will address difficult questions and may generate difficult solutions which may in turn have severe effects on existing interests both inside and outside the organisation . |
| 6 | A trigger for leukotriene synthesis may be the formation by ionising radiation of lipid peroxides , which may in turn promote synthesis of leukotrienes by LTA 4 hydrolase . |
| 7 | It is possible , however , that mucosal application of 5HT might stimulate submucosal 5HT neurons , which may in turn activate interneurons connecting the submucosal and enteric plexuses . |
| 8 | This tale about Swegen 's Slavonic wife may fit with Thietmar 's statement that he had Cnut and his brother Harald by a sister of Boleslav whom he later abandoned , which may in turn tie in with the Encomiast 's story that after their father 's death Cnut and Harald brought their mother back from among the Slavs . |
| 9 | The typical sequence for passive rifting is rifting followed by volcanism , which may in turn be succeeded by uplift . |
| 10 | This concentration of fish causes social stress , disease and oxygen depletion , which may in turn cause high mortality rates especially in hot weather . |
| 11 | Echosounders calibrated for sea water over read slightly in fresh water , which may in part explain the exceptional reading . |
| 12 | Apart from this quibble , I do find that the whole performance has a slightly veiled and subdued quality about it , which may in part be attributable to microphone placement and the dull acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall , but may equally be the result of both orchestra and conductor being reluctant to take risks on such an auspicious occasion . |
| 13 | However , nurses were very badly paid , which may in part account for a seemingly low take-up of non-compulsory pension scheme provision for nurses ( Maggs , 1983 , p.131 ) . |
| 14 | Apart from the use of referenda , which are a regular feature of politics in the United States , Switzerland and some other countries , jury service , as an obligation which may in principle fall upon any citizen , is almost the sole vestige of direct citizen participation in law-making and administration which survives in modern democracies . |
| 15 | Those classed as ‘ other homes ’ included convalescent homes , a rehabilitation centre , an assessment centre , a holiday home for the disabled and rest homes which may in practice have been homes for older people ( the classification was made on the basis of the information given by the person interviewed ) . |
| 16 | The gunners claimed two Ju88s shot down , one of which may in fact have been an He111H of 6/KG 26 , which failed to return to base on this date . |
| 17 | At present , the recogniser gives an indication of zone ( ‘ u ’ , ‘ m ’ or ‘ l ’ ) for each candidate letter , ( which may in fact not match the usual zone for that letter ) . |
| 18 | As we demonstrated in our previous book , moreover , the wedding at Cana — which may in fact have been Jesus 's own wedding — was not a modest village affair , but a sumptuous ceremony of the gentry or aristocracy . |
| 19 | The name that is mentioned most frequently in this respect is the Spanish publisher Santillana ( which may in fact have ambitions well beyond Spain ) . |
| 20 | Any one network junction has topological neighbours , that is , junctions connected to it along a common chain , but it also possesses spatial neighbour junctions — junctions which may in fact be nearer to it in the continuum space but which belong to other chains . |
| 21 | Since 1940 the average yield , which should in theory have been lower than the official limit but in practice was not always so , has steadily increased : |
| 22 | National organizations , which should in fact be setting an example in good sensitive design and leading the way in enhancing the urban environment , are all too often blind to local needs . |
| 23 | They assume that there is a trade-off between labour-augmenting and capital-augmenting technical progress , and that firms maximize the instantaneous rate of unit cost reduction ( i.e. firms are myopic , or are able to appropriate returns for only one instant ) This ‘ innovation possibility frontier ’ captures the notion of choice but leaves open a number of questions , notably the determination of its shape and location , which must in part result from the deliberate allocation of resources to research and development . |
| 24 | What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal . |
| 25 | Those principles required the elimination , not only of existing restrictions and discrimination relating to the exercise of occupational activities , but also of any barrier which might in practice prevent the effective realisation of those activities . |
| 26 | This is to pick up changes in the cells on the cervix ( neck of the womb ) which might in time go on to become cancer . |
| 27 | The example always given was that the fluttering of a butterly 's wing in the forests of Amazonia could change the climate of the north Atlantic , which might in theory be true because things very often changed just at the margin , and no one could trace quite how . |
| 28 | Often the result is that the child , and subsequently the adult , in order to avoid punishment , will suppress feelings which might in fact be quite normal and natural , and indeed necessary to the human condition . |
| 29 | As a rule , people do not hear single isolated words , and in the great majority of cases any word we hear is preceded by a context which could in principle be used to assist word recognition . |
| 30 | In the process , the project should generate an appropriate framework for thinking about the provision of business support services which could in principle be applied to any locality . |