Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] one may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 2 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 3 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 4 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 5 | It would be gravely mistaken to understate the depth of difference between John Paul II and the general viewpoint of what one may call the Western Catholic avant-garde , the post-conciliar network of theologians , religious and committed laity . |
| 6 | The main problem , however , is a methodological one , for in human development specific events to which one may wish to attribute some formative influence hardly ever occur on their own but are usually embedded in a continuing context , a whole network of associated influences . |
| 7 | ‘ The size of the earth over which one may roam shrinks day by day , until it decreases to the house , — to one 's room , — to one 's bed ; and finally to the narrowest space of all . ’ |