Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [noun pl] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intermediate posts or stakes are very far apart ( hence the relative cheapness of the system ) which means that on uneven ground there will be gaps through which lambs may escape . |
| 2 | Despite a crackdown , Islamic militants have stepped up their hit-and-run insurgency , turning swathes of southern Egypt into battle zones through which foreigners may travel only with lorryloads of nervous police escorts . |
| 3 | Such models also share an essentially procedural conception of justice and view the primary function of the state as that of securing a framework of law through which individuals may pursue their own particular goals . |
| 4 | The turnover ceiling below which firms may join the Cash Accounting Scheme also rises by £50,000 to £350,000 . |
| 5 | Quite apart from discriminations as to what is or is not permissible food and how it should be prepared ( " edibility " in a strict nutritional sense is a very minor factor here ) , all human societies have precise rules about the circumstances in which men may kill other men and other animals . |
| 6 | Bennett is standing by an early two-stump wicket , a return to which batsmen may favour . |
| 7 | That any pricing system adopted recognises the budgetary context as indicated both by the size of DSS transfer and placement rates for 1993/94 but also the inflationary pressures inherent in the adoption of explicit ceilings to which prices may converge . |
| 8 | In the third and fourth years courses in Palaeoecology , Palaeoeconomy , Quaternary Environmental History and Culture and Environment provide a practical and theoretical core around which students may build particular specialist interests in archaeology and the environmental sciences . |
| 9 | Such approaches take time but … such shared activity helps to create a climate in which individuals may change themselves . |
| 10 | There appears to be no standard creation myth but a number of versions within which details may vary and which connect the creation with different gods . |
| 11 | If you go to ask the mayor of Aegina town about them , you see a room in which Capodistrias may have sat , planning post-Ottoman Greece . |
| 12 | They present these advantages either in terms of utility or in the intrinsic moral worth of a community in which individuals may place trust and confidence in others . |
| 13 | In other references dhamma is the raft on which men may cross the ocean of existence to the farther shore of Nirvana . |
| 14 | The final area of regulation concerns the form of organisation through which architects may offer their services . |
| 15 | He may have no reason to acknowledge the government 's authority over him regarding the conditions under which parents may leave their children unattended by adults . |
| 16 | However , local authorities have a local appeals procedure under which officers may appeal if they are dissatisfied with the authority 's decision as to whether it is necessary to move home or if they are dissatisfied with any of the authority 's decisions in relation to the application of the relocation provisions . |
| 17 | A cursory examination of the Municipal Act reveals the great diversity of matters in respect of which municipalities may legislate and the diversity of activities in which such corporations may engage . |
| 18 | Discussion of practical ways in which teachers may adapt their methodology when teaching bilingual students is done through exercises and often based on the analysis of video or audio tapes . |
| 19 | When considered together , they produce a two-way table ( see Table 5.1 ) in which each cell represents one of the ways in which children may meet , in a text , voices other than that of the narrator . |
| 20 | They share a similar life style , identify with and feel they belong to their status group and often place restrictions on the ways in which outsiders may interact with them . |
| 21 | So three ways in which communications may flow , okay ? |
| 22 | There are many different ways in which speakers may exploit , in varying social functions , the resources of variation that are available to them , and we do not necessarily know beforehand what these are , how they interact , or what the limitations on possible variants may be . |
| 23 | There are various statutory restraints on the manner in which freeholders may use their premises . |
| 24 | Consequently , the offenders are not important ; what matters is that opportunities must be reduced and risks increased and this requires that attention be given to the situations in which offences may occur . |
| 25 | We are concerned with two forms of covenant : restrictive covenants , which may affect the use to which freeholders may put their land ; and covenants contained in a lease , which restrict the position of tenants . |
| 26 | A potential mechanism by which hepatocytes may regulate metalloproteinase activity is by cleavage of tPA ( see above ) to activate plasmin which in turn activates latent pro-metalloproteinases secreted by lipocytes and Kupffer cells . |
| 27 | These are four means by which firms may achieve dominant positions in markets ( Hay and Vickers , 1988 ) : |
| 28 | There is a further problem of distinguishing fair competition ( lower prices , better quality ) from anticompetitive behaviour , such as predatory pricing , which is the third means by which firms may come to dominate a market ( Ordover and Saloner , 1989 ) . |
| 29 | The limits within which committees may modify government proposals are fixed by the major parties . |
| 30 | The era of the Spirit in which Christians may exult ( 2 Cor. 3 throughout ) leads inescapably to the rejection the hardship , perplexity and physical sufferings of which the apostle speaks in chapter four , for he carries about in his body the death of Jesus , so that the life of Jesus may shine through his personality ( 2 Cor. 4:103 . |