Example sentences of "[coord] which may [be] " in BNC.

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1 Turning to the use of fuels for IC vehicles which do not use up vital oil reserves or which may be used when oil is no longer available , the use of hydrogen has been suggested as one of the answers to future transport fuel needs .
2 In a letter to members , the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association warns against schemes ‘ with no guarantee of adequate resources ; which may blur the process of professional development with the identification of alleged weaknesses for disciplinary purposes ; and which may be used as a crude and inequitable process for relating salary rates to arbitrarily judged levels of performance ’ .
3 Such then , in extremely broad terms , is the essence of the nature-culture opposition , an opposition which , as I hope to show , provides one clue as to the perceived gender differentials in blood within Judaism and which may be of help in establishing an ( oppositional ) link between circumcision and menstrual taboo .
4 ‘ It would be wrong for water users in the next five to ten years to be asked to finance the whole cost of projects which have been neglected in the past and which may be expected to last for 30 , 50 or even 100 years .
5 This is a typical psychological reaction , i.e. one which is said to cause ‘ a reversible alteration in mood , behaviour , attitude , or thought processes of which the subject is or may become aware and which may be favourable or unfavourable ’ .
6 Without getting into these deep and murky waters , let me say that problem solving uses thinking , but that solving a genuine problem usually requires some creative act , ranging from the flash of insight that illuminates the entire problem to the glimmer of light that shows a direction to pursue ( and which may be a will o' the wisp ) .
7 Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove .
8 As far as acquisition of language is concerned , it seems clear that reinforcement , casual observation , and natural inquisitiveness ( coupled with a strong tendency to imitate ) are important factors , as is the remarkable capacity of the child to generalise , hypothesise and ‘ process information ’ in a variety of very special and apparently highly complex ways which we can not yet describe or begin to understand , and which may be largely innate , or may develop through some sort of learning or through maturation of the nervous system .
9 To argue , therefore , that changes in newspapers — in their content , style , readership , etc. — may be undesirable ( e.g. ‘ deradicalization ’ , ‘ depoliticization ’ ) is to confuse that which one may desire ( and which may be socially desirable ) with the actual and real choices which individuals and groups make in the market-place .
10 It might have been a very worthy course to stay in England and incessantly work for peace : but I had one traditionally acquired or inherited prejudice , which many will think foolish and which may be logically diffilcult to defend .
11 Think of the male statues which are even now being exposed at Sydenham without adequate covering and which may be viewed by innocent girls ! "
12 The percentage of effective votes , that is votes which clearly contributed to the election of a candidate and which may be regarded as a measure of voter satisfaction , throughout the Province remained unchanged at nearly 88% .
13 Let us begin with a road which seems to lead nowhere , and which may be dangerous to follow .
14 Well there are monitoring systems which are meant to be in place a and which may be er are not are not effective enough erm .
15 An upperplate margin is formed by crust lying above the detachment fault while a lower-plate margin is developed on deeper crustal rocks lying below the detachment zone and which may be overlain by faulted fragments of the upper plate .
16 Ways of trying to increase your bargaining power include delaying negotiations or confrontation until you are in a stronger position , initiating action in another area which raises the costs to your opponent if he disagrees with your offer , linking the issue under discussion with much wider issues which do not seem of much importance at first sight to your opponent but which may be to his long-term disadvantage but to your long-term advantage which will compensate for your short-term loss .
17 In a somewhat similar vein nuclear physics contains examples of processes that appear to have little in common , but which may be unified .
18 These are all aspects of learning that have been shown to present difficulties to some visually handicapped children , but which may be amenable to remediation .
19 Such an approach is based on what I have called elsewhere ( Parton , 1985 ) a disease model of child abuse , but which may be more appropriately conceptualized as a public health model ( Giovannoni , 1982 ; Greenland , 1987 ) .
20 It is also acknowledged and agreed that I will perform my functions hereunder solely for the said parties and neither correspondence relating to the dispute nor any finding or award made by me as expert shall give rise to any right in favour of any person not a party hereto and any such correspondence and finding [ or award ] will be confidential to the said parties and will not be disclosed without my prior written consent , which I will not unreasonably withhold but which may be given subject to conditions .
21 Lord Cross accepted that the " significant proportion " test was the standard which the justices were required to apply , but stressed that " a significant proportion of a class means a part which is not numerically negligible but which may be much less than half . "
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