Example sentences of "which may be [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ‘ General ’ cache — containing items of data types which may be transferred from an invocation of one option to an invocation of a completely different option . |
| 2 | An interesting type of instruction is the search or scan instruction , which may be seen as an iterated compare . |
| 3 | A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 4 | ‘ A person whom there are grounds to suspect of an offence must be cautioned before any questions about it ( or further questions if it is his answers to previous questions that provide grounds for suspicion ) are put to him for the purpose of obtaining evidence which may be given to a court in a prosecution . |
| 5 | An exporter to reduce his foreign exchange risk may borrow in the currency of his expected export receipt or an importer may require a currency loan to pay for imports which may be re-processed for an overseas market . |
| 6 | He pointed out that there would be nothing in the Act to meet what is itself a mischief frequently encountered today , namely , industrial espionage or obtaining information as to security details or other confidential information which may be stored on a company 's computer . |
| 7 | The brush is handy for vacuuming stubborn dust and dirt which may be lodged in a carpet and the crevice tool will reach into awkward corners such as under kitchen units , although it is n't long enough to reach to the very back . |
| 8 | As habitus , this distinction between the Kantian and anti-Kantian aesthetic is both derived from material conditions , and in turn provides an insight into a classificatory scheme which may be applied to an infinite number of actual material and consumption domains . |
| 9 | Although there is a very wide range of coldwater fish which may be kept in a garden pond the majority of pondkeepers choose Orfe or some of the many varieties of goldfish . |
| 10 | Later in the sequence the gastric contents take on a slightly more homogeneous quality , which may be caused by a reduction in particle size , although more prolonged imaging would be required to confirm this conclusively . |
| 11 | The data suggest that the protentiation of pancreatic toxicity of cyclosporin A observed during coadministration of indomethacin is not the result of suppression of endogenous pancreatic eicosanoid biosynthesis , but more likely results from altered cyclosporin A pharmacokinetics which may be caused by an interference of indomethacin with the hepatic cytochrome P-450 dependent monooxygenase involved in cyclosporin A metabolism . |
| 12 | The tension between innovative and conservative social mechanisms gives rise to a identifiable pattern of gradual diffusion , which may be represented as a historical shift from an older English-type pattern towards a pattern characteristic of modern Scots . |
| 13 | Another was the suicide of Brennus after his retreat from Delphi , which may be represented in a famous bronze of the museum of Naples . |
| 14 | " As initially present to the mind " is to be taken strictly in terms of the syntactic-semantic construction of expressions ; it does not directly refer to any aspect of an external situation which may be represented by an expression . |
| 15 | The Public Health Act of 1875 which may be regarded as a landmark in the advancement of local administration , gave to these Boards a code of powers in relation to public health and other matters , and established urban and rural sanitary authorities . |
| 16 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 17 | The percentage of effective votes , that is votes which clearly contributed to the election of a candidate and which may be regarded as a measure of voter satisfaction , throughout the Province remained unchanged at nearly 88% . |
| 18 | In Latin America a second wave of nationalism , which may be regarded as a continuation of the national independence struggles against the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the early nineteenth century , has developed vigorously in the present century in opposition to American economic dominance , and has been connected more or less closely with socialist and reforming movements directed against the internal domination of these societies by an upper class composed of landowners , and more recently , of elements of a national bourgeoisie . |
| 19 | In addition , a sharply progressive personal tax system will make dividends a relatively unattractive source of income for the marginal tax payer compared to capital gains which may be taxed at a flat rate . |
| 20 | Capital allowances deducted from the taxable income may be higher in the early years ( and therefore lower in the later years ) thin book depreciation , which may be charged over a longer period . |
| 21 | Apart from the El Chichón cloud , the most intriguing aspect of this record is a pair of dips in January and March 1982 , before El Chichón erupted , which may be related to a ‘ mystery cloud ’ of material in the stratosphere . |
| 22 | It is essential that the teamwork and positive approach to our work continues so that we can cope with any increase which may be generated from an improvement in trading . |
| 23 | Perhaps more than any other group of molluscs the gastropods are remarkable for the variety and beauty of the external sculpture on the shell , which may be covered with a delicate tracery of ribs and lines , or stout spines , or fine prickles . |
| 24 | They may then be rolled onto a simple reel , which may be made from a 5 — gallon oil drum , and are ready for next year . |
| 25 | There are similar sanctions which may be employed against a reluctant witness in the county court and High Court . |
| 26 | In most languages , participant roles are systematically defined through a closed system of pronouns which may be organized along a variety of dimensions . |
| 27 | Hence the situation we confront is one in which there are somewhat uncertain ( in the sense of being not precisely calculable ) physical limits to growth , which may be placed in a more or less distant ( but not indefinite ) future , and social limits to growth already manifest in a deteriorating ‘ quality of life ’ and its attendant frustrations , which attract increasing attention from social scientists . |
| 28 | This method of making compost in the field is known as sheet composting , a variation of which may be achieved after a cereal crop by chopping the straw and stubble ( using a forage harvester with delivery spout removed ) behind the combine , spreading slurry , and then rotovating the mixture into the top soil . |
| 29 | The furniture in the lower room , which in every respect corresponds to the upper one , consists of one chair , of most antique and unsafe appearance ; two tables , which may be referred to an equally remote period ; and a rude wooden bench , about four feet long . |
| 30 | There is no limit on the number of volume sets which may be defined for a particular installation , as the number produced depends on the number of charge codes for which modules are to be hard copied and the number of modules to be hard copied for those charge codes . |