Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] which [pron] may " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also may have answered a few queries over which he may have pondered in his youth and then discarded to the rear of his mind for later consideration . |
| 2 | The open-air markets , held weekly in most major towns , are lively social gatherings at which you may be lucky enough to strike an excellent holiday bargain . |
| 3 | Here are some further areas in which you may well have experience and that would stand you in good stead with a prospective employer . |
| 4 | There will be three open classes each with a different teacher from which you may choose one session ; there will also be a separate class for the children and an interesting selection of displays . |
| 5 | But we need not pause to examine its defects , since there is a stronger and more interesting move with which it may be confused . |
| 6 | All of these aspects of the production of the text affect its meaning , both from the point of view of the author 's intention and of the most probable interpretation , even before we consider the wider social situations in which it may be encountered . |
| 7 | The argument from numbers continues to have some appeal in the criminal law but there are now few situations in which there may be an indictment for conspiracy in respect of acts which would not be criminal if done by one person . |
| 8 | Its difference from simple empirical generalization is that whereas this former extends its local names to a variety of historical situations to which they may be only partly appropriate , this latter , theoreticist tendency extends its presumptive interpretations and categories in what is always , essentially , a search for illustrative instances . |
| 9 | The space created will be like a tented temple in which everything may be seen in a different landscape , the familiar becomes strange and muted whilst the unfamiliar echoes past resemblances . |
| 10 | The first type of state is the case where monotonous driving on featureless roads , particularly motorways/highways , has been claimed to lead to the driver falling into a trance-like state in which they may fail to adequately respond to changes in the road environment . |
| 11 | Our calendar below lists some of the more important events and public holidays around which you may wish to plan your trip . |
| 12 | B : [ pragmatically interpreted particle ] the milkman came at some time prior to the time of speaking Yet it is clear to native speakers that what would ordinarily be communicated by such an exchange involves considerably more , along the lines of the italicized material in ( 3 ) : ( 3 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time of the present moment , as standardly indicated on a watch , and if so please do so tell me B : No I do n't know the exact time of the present moment , but I can provide some information from which you may be able to deduce the approximate time , namely the milkman has come ( see R. Lakoff , 1973a ; Smith & Wilson , 1979 : 172ff for a discussion of such examples ) . |
| 13 | He said your body is like a book in which men may read strange things , a foreign country in which they may travel with delight . |
| 14 | One problem with this kind of criticism is that the ‘ images ’ in question have often been misinterpreted , since they have been discussed without reference to the context or narrative structure in which they may appear . |
| 15 | It was urged that , if this construction were adopted , a solicitor would have a shorter time during which he may abstain from bringing his action for work done than the rest of Her Majesty 's subjects . |
| 16 | This discussion of pedagogical grammars will help you in any of the following four typical situations in which you may find yourself : a . |
| 17 | We know how important it is to educate children , sometimes even those in their late primary school years , about the offending temptations with which they may be faced . |
| 18 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 19 | I now come to a very controversial point on which I may be in a minority , but I think there is far too much written material with classical CDs . |
| 20 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 21 | And I 'll start backwards by saying what I 'd like to see , and that is that I think with a group of women coming from such a broad spectrum , that the work we 're going to do is never going to be the same and there are going to be large areas in which we may not be able to work together . |
| 22 | If you plan to defer your pension , you should also defer any graduated pension to which you may be entitled — or you risk losing the increases you would otherwise obtain . |
| 23 | Reiterating their support for Greek autonomy , they declared that , if the Turks did not accept international mediation within a month , they would enter into commercial relations with the Greeks and " determine the ulterior measures to which it may become necessary to resort " . |
| 24 | The above allowance is inclusive of any Statutory Sick Pay to which you may be entitled . |
| 25 | Literary texts are not some static crystalline structure in which we may glimpse a captured immobile past . |
| 26 | Moore 's approach only makes sense in the context of his belief that any proper thing can be conceived independently of any larger context in which it may figure . |
| 27 | However , such concerns are beyond the scope of this article , and although we are not always able to separate out the different areas of linguistic interest in the characterisation of an individual in a dramatic text ( many individual character traits are receptive to a number of different linguistic approaches ) , the large number of insights into characterisation offered by discourse and pragmatic analysis indicates the large extent to which they may be used effectively by the student of dramatic texts . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 1.4 Nothing in these conditions shall prejudice any condition or warranty expressed or implied , or any legal remedy to which we may be entitled , in relation to the goods and/or the work the subject of this order , by virtue of any statute or custom or any general law or local law or regulation . |
| 30 | Wait to hear re Bank ( ie if any i/view ) , and ditto Health Education Board for Scotland , Common Purpose ( a fascinating organisation about which you may have read in the papers ) , the Scottish Rugby Union ( ! ) and some others . |