Example sentences of "which [vb mod] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Workers at all levels face a future which may of necessity or choice embrace a number of quite different careers .
2 Of course , he is concerned here with speech , and not with language in general , which may of course encompass gestural systems or systems such as those used by the ape language experimenters .
3 The fundamental one in an investigation of this kind is that we do not need to accept any prior assumption about how society at large is organized or structured , and so in our interpretation we do not need to import any presuppositions from theories of social class and social structure or taxonomies of class or status , which may of course be controversial .
4 Nevertheless , two categories of influence role can be identified : * External influences , which can include : your company 's salespeople ; salespeople from competing suppliers ; journalists and professionals writing in trade and specialist journals ; individual representatives at trade shows and exhibitions ; influential individuals in companies competing with the potential purchaser 's company ; influential associates and people with significant reputations whose Opinions are listened to and adopted , perhaps in professional bodies such as engineering , Computing , marketing , ACCOUNTANCY , etc. * internal influences , which may of course include gatekeepers and users , described above .
5 L and T have promised to keep to their obligations , the covenants , for the whole period of their lease — which may of course be for the next thousand years .
6 It 'll complicate negotiations between Mr DeKlerk and Mr Mandela if at the same time as those negotiations continue , er Mrs Mandela is on trial which may of course be prolonged .
7 Once seen , it gives us back a legitimate access to a great wealth of traditional human experience on the matter , which must of course be critically used , but which certainly does not leave us utterly puzzled , as we might be in starting to observe a strange species .
8 The unique number , which must of course appear on the cost printout , will enable management to identify each individual docket but it may well be a laborious process to extract the costing details for one subsection of a project from the filing for the whole company .
9 Thus a diatomic molecule ( N = 2 ) , which must of course be linear , has only one mode of vibration , the bond-stretching motion .
10 It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics .
11 There were two possible starting-points for any decision , the King and the Council , which might of course discuss the matter jointly .
12 All the activities suggested for video recording are activities with a language learning purpose which could of course be done without the presence of the camera .
13 Most late nineteenth-century feminists saw feminism primarily as a movement for moral reform , which would of necessity bring in its wake desirable political and social change .
14 It seemed undesirable to use force against the Yugoslavs at the moment , but incidents could occur or be provoked , and clear instructions should be issued soon as to whether Alexander should order Eighth Army to close the Austrian frontier to the Yugoslavs and eject them from Carinthia , which would of course mean by force .
15 These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ .
16 Where a writ is served after its original period of validity has expired , even though its renewal period has not expired , the defendant may apply to set aside service and the order for renewal , which would of course have been made ex parte .
17 It goes without saying that the TD must hold regular surgeries , or in the euphemistic Irish expression " hear confessions " which will of course turn out to be requests for assistance .
18 Which will of course just be played as an F.
19 Each LIFESPAN Process requires a minimum of 4500 blocks for the database files , which will of course grow as you use the LIFESPAN Process .
20 It is an irony that underlying this kind of dispersal policy , which can of course be criticised , is a reliance on the old skills that the private librarians would have had at their finger tips .
21 Apart from a very small number of older key texts , the literature I cite is purposely recent literature , which can of course always be used to track the historical contributions , if the reader so wishes .
22 A typical exhibit , Thomas Kapielsky 's witty ‘ Käseplatte ’ is an object the size and shape of a record ( platte ) which also looks like a section of a round cheese ( Käse ) ; but the thing visualises at the same time an untranslatable German pun ( while ‘ Käseplatte ’ is normally a selection of cheeses in a restaurant , ‘ Käse ’ is also colloquial for crap which can of course refer to music as well as to art … ) .
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