Example sentences of "which [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A new pay deal — which may mean a cut of up to £1 1/2 MILLION — could also head off the growing clamour at Westminster for a Commons inquiry into whether the family gives value for money . |
| 2 | The media provide , in Blumler 's words , ‘ the informational building blocks to structure views of the world … from which may stem a range of actions ’ . |
| 3 | It can be useful to refer to something you all have in common , which may restore a feeling of harmony . |
| 4 | I think Stuart is hoping several group members will contribute specific perspectives , each of which may form a chapter of the report , whereas others will contribute through critical assessment of the issues . |
| 5 | I think Stuart is hoping several group members will contribute specific perspectives , each of which may form a chapter of the report , whereas others will contribute through an assessment of the issues . |
| 6 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 7 | They also offer relatively modest time allocations for practical and prevocational subjects in upper primary classes , a feature which may reflect a lack of real conviction by syllabus panels to respond to the political creed that such studies are necessary and profitable for primary level children , but may also be born of a firm realistic assessment of the lack of money and materials to make such studies workable . |
| 8 | From a non-evolutionist standpoint , however , the problems that can be posed concerning the state , within a Marxist conception , are limited to the following : the formation of the state as a consequence of a structural transformation of primitive communal societies ( so far as these can be properly located and studied ) ; the types of state which correspond with determinate , historically realized , modes of production , and the conditions which produce a transition from one type to another ; and in the case of capitalist society , the structural characteristics , including the contradictions , which may effect a transition to another ( unknown ) type of society . |
| 9 | ( This means that the user sees ‘ primitive ’ spatial operations and not a whole spatial problem which may involve a sequence of primitive operations ) . |
| 10 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 11 | The oxygen linkages between the sugar rings remain the vulnerable links in the cellulose molecule which may reach a length of several hundred glucose units . |
| 12 | The eruption of highly viscous lava , such as that formed by the degassing of rhyolite or andesite , can create large domes which may reach a height of several hundred metres and a width of several kilometres . |
| 13 | Chemical analysis is usually employed to determine the materials from which an object is made , and often to identify trace elements which may give a clue to the origins and date of the object . |
| 14 | Minor buffering phases such as phlogopite and carbonates , which may play a role in low-degree partial melting of the mantle , have been invoked as an explanation for high U/Pb in areas of old continental lithosphere , but there is no obvious phase that will buffer K and Pb to produce the effect observed in Fig. 3 b , without also affecting Ba or Ti ; Ba/Ce ratios of central Atlantic OIB are in fact relatively uniform . |
| 15 | One mutant ( H197K ) showed a 5-fold reduction in affinity for substance P but not in the affinities of other neurokinin peptides ( data not shown ) , which may indicate a perturbation of the substance P-receptor interaction as a result of the longer side chain and/or the positive charge of Lys197 . |
| 16 | However , strict neurological assessment showed that even in these infants minor neurological impairments were detectable , which may indicate a risk of cognitive deficits later . |
| 17 | But the Clinton proposals were reported to be causing concern to Saudi Arabia , the world 's largest oil exporter , which may seek a dialogue with Western nations on issues of petroleum supply and taxation . |
| 18 | He may , if he so wishes , include a description up to a maximum of six words , which may include a reference to the candidate 's political associations . |
| 19 | In many places the schedule includes parish Eucharists or family services , in addition to the regular daily services , which may include a hymn for all to sing . |
| 20 | This is a process which may take a number of reruns to achieve what we would consider to be a satisfactory outcome . |
| 21 | ‘ However , I can tell you something which may have a bearing on your stubbornness . ’ |
| 22 | Such buildings suggest that some of the region 's wealthier inhabitants resided within the town , which may have a bearing on the site 's wider significance . |
| 23 | Eggs fungusing is a problem which may have a number of causes . |
| 24 | Carron Phoenix , the Scottish sink manufacturer , is involved in talks which may produce a bid above the agreed 60p-a-share offer from Bene of France . |
| 25 | Keeping your fingers crossed and plunging on is one way of dealing with tricky situations which may gain a reputation for the school that it has firm and strong management but it can have costs in the loss of a number of unhappy families . |
| 26 | The ability to recast an expression from one language into the form of another depends on reference to some underlying construct of meaning which may establish a resemblance between expressions which appear very different and a distinction between expressions which appear to resemble each other . |
| 27 | For instance , a syntactic edge may span a number of lexical edges , each of which may span a number of phonemic edges , and so on . |
| 28 | Alcohol in conjunction with sugar increases the release of insulin , a hormone which may cause a lowering of blood sugar and may lead to obesity . |
| 29 | In attempting to meet the needs of individual pupils , it will be necessary to take into account aspects of the training of the child 's visual loss or depreciation of sight which may cause a lack of confidence in moving about . |
| 30 | By taking into account , not only the meaning of U , but also the precise mechanisms ( like irony , or general assumptions of a certain level of implicitness ) which may cause a divergence between the meaning of U and what is communicated by the utterance of U in a particular context . |