Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] may [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students study three subjects in the first year , after which they may continue with one of these subjects for an honours degree . |
| 2 | Tait intends to remain at his Berkshire base until the 1994 World Championships , after which he may return to his native New Zealand . |
| 3 | The Timeshare Act , which provides buyers with a 14-day cooling off period during which they may withdraw from a timeshare agreement , comes into effect on 12 October ( p 99 ) . |
| 4 | Implementation of a new Timeshare Act , which provides buyers with a 14-day ‘ cooling off ’ period during which they may withdraw from a timeshare agreement , has been announced by Consumer Affairs Minister Baroness Denton . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One of these effects can be what Britton ( 1981 ) refers to as the phenomenon of re-enactment as an unwitting professional response to the dynamics of a child 's situation , the difficulty that exists for professionals not to re-enact — and thereby aggravate — what the child already experiences , and the ease with which they may collude with his sense of hopelessness and negative feelings . |
| 7 | By reading a wide range of literature , children become aware of new forms of discourse and modes of expression with which they may experiment in their own writing . |
| 8 | Wood is affected by liquid water in the form of rain , rivers , seas and so on with which it may come into contact but , more importantly , it is affected by the moisture vapour which is always present in the air . |
| 9 | Any disregard of this may provide the minority shareholders with a claim under s459 Companies Act 1985 , under which they may complain against resolutions of the company which are for the benefit not of the company as a whole , but of the majority shareholders alone . |
| 10 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The figure of Francisco Franco and his political talent , like his military talent before , have made possible a situation in which we may look to the future with optimism . |
| 14 | In these two offices all your rights , and those of your elderly parent , to State benefits , pensions and special concessions and allowances can be explained , as well as ways in which you may apply for grants and other forms of help in some circumstances from various voluntary organisations . |
| 15 | In Dee , however , Palles C.B. deplored such a view , which he claimed was ‘ abhorrent to our best feelings and discreditable to any jurisprudence in which it may succeed in obtaining a place . ’ |
| 16 | The cost is exorbitant and the Government should take this opportunity to tell that to local authorities , especially in relation to students , although there are other categories to which we may refer in other clauses and amendments . |
| 17 | The degree to which we may have to , to use a fairly shoddy word , compromise . |
| 18 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 19 | I look forward to hearing thoughtful and far-reaching speeches such as that made by the hon. Member for Chichester when these matters are discussed at Maastricht , and I hope that views such as his will be reflected in Maastricht — a subject to which I may return in due course . |
| 20 | It is open to the senior police officer present to impose conditions under this section whilst the march is in process , and on the same grounds as those on which he may act in advance . |