Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] may [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I am the carbuncle of the sun , the most noble purified earth , through which you may change copper , iron , tin and lead into gold . |
| 3 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 4 | In the latter , it is ‘ public opinion ’ — ‘ a scattered discourse that in part belongs to each of the individuals of a society but of which none may claim ownership ’ — which underwrites the verisimilitude of the text , allows its relationship to its referent to be probable , necessary , and therefore true , and naturalizes its conventions : ‘ public opinion therefore functions as a rule of genre that relates to all genres . ’ |
| 5 | And we hope that our district will continue to be , be aware of ways in , in which we may help elders and churches in their ministry . |
| 6 | First , we may think of the traditional or even oldfashioned type of man with tangible material things which belong to him — land and houses , horses and cattle , furniture and jewellery and pictures — things which he may use or destroy ( so far as that is physically possible ) ; from which he may exclude others ; which he may sell or give away or bequeath ; which , if he has made no disposition of them , will pass on his death to persons related to him . |
| 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 . ’ |
| 8 | As yet , the role of consumer or patient ‘ demand ’ , and the extent to which it may influence variations in surgical rates , has been relatively unexplored . |
| 9 | Her scheme envisaged a palatial brothel for women only — a sanctuary ‘ to which any lady of rank and fortune may subscribe , and to which she may repair incog ; the married to commit what the world calls adultery , and the single to commit what at the tabernacle is called fornication , or in a gentler phrase , to obey the dictates of all-powerful Nature , by offering up a cheerful sacrifice to the God Priapus , the most ancient of deities . ’ |