Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [adv] [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , the question of whether a function is a public one is a political question which may not always be answered in the same way . |
| 2 | Boys appear to outnumber girls by about five to one , but it may be that girls with the problem are less overtly hyperactive , and tend to display more subtle symptoms , such as inattention , speech disorders and mood changes , which may not always be identified as hyperkinetic syndrome . |
| 3 | These refer to those aspects of beliefs , which may not currently be used in explicit argument to justify one 's own position or to criticize counter-positions , but which possess the potential to be used in future argument . |
| 4 | A problem is that mean values for fertility and survival probability decline with age , which may not necessarily be accounted for by a logarithmic transform . |
| 5 | And then what is interesting is that whatever their exact priority ( which may perhaps never be determined ) each of these kinds is very early indeed in human culture . |
| 6 | It also suggests the possibility that demonstrators fall foul of the law in the magistrates ' court in ways which may never afterwards be given thoughtful re-examination at a more senior judicial level . |
| 7 | ‘ In the first place , there is the doctrine , which may now perhaps be regarded as a rule of evidence , that , if a voluntary disposition in favour of the husband is impeached , the burden of establishing that it was not improperly or unfairly procured may be placed upon him by proof of circumstances raising any doubt or suspicion . |
| 8 | This view , however , may be to perceive only as a weakness within the British scene something which may more interestingly be considered an incentive to , even a necessary condition of , modernist and postmodernist writing generally . |
| 9 | After the very earliest period of relative non-differentiation of functions , in which the ‘ literary ’ or ‘ artistic ’ had not or not fully separated out from the more generally ‘ cultural ’ , there had been this phase of specifically instituted artists , which should not really be described in terms taken from later phases , such as ‘ official recognition ’ or ‘ patronage ’ . |
| 10 | Apart from circulating relevant material to those members contained in the mailing list that are considered to have an interest in the particular planning exercise in question , there are a number of basic publicity measures which should almost invariably be carried out , i.e. place an advertisement in the relevant local papers ; lodge relevant documents at suitable venues accessible to the public . |
| 11 | There is no duty upon the Commissioner to have regard to these vague considerations which should therefore not be seen as a potential fetter on the Commissioner 's discretion . |
| 12 | How to do that on the issue of AIDS , and with the efforts and talents of lesbians and gay men , is the question which must not now be avoided . |
| 13 | Quantitative measures may allow a discovery of pattern in the situations which might otherwise merely be seen as random variation . |
| 14 | But when it is used to describe what happens during reading , or any attempt at reading , it seems to stand for something less focused and further from full awareness — something which might more appropriately be called ‘ anticipation ’ or ‘ expectancy ’ . |
| 15 | In other words , the New Critical concept of coherence took over the task of unifying meaning which could no longer be attributed to the author . |
| 16 | This was one reason why they played such an important role in the renaissance of interest in the classical world from the fifteenth century onwards : here were many examples of objects giving tangible evidence for events which could otherwise only be read about . |
| 17 | Wordsworth also inherits from Locke an intense concern with the visible universe ; although Locke tries to explain all kinds of sensory experience he is most at home with the sense of sight , which could most easily be related to Newton 's optical discoveries . |
| 18 | However , a colleague looking at these OSUs in relation to their cultural impact , saw there were many aspects of a qualitative nature which could not easily be expressed in fiscal terms ( Adams 1988 : 11 ) : |
| 19 | The Council became a genuinely learning process , and once the name of the game had been defined as aggiornamento , once ecumenical understanding and co-operation with other Christians had been moved from the presupposition of ‘ dangerous ’ to that of ‘ Christian ’ and ‘ highly desirable ’ , there developed for a while a new logic which could not easily be denied . |
| 20 | It seems reasonable to assume , for instance , that he was — at least in part — influenced by the calculations of his own defence establishment from 1943 ( calculations which could not easily be challenged until the United States acquired nuclear weapons ) to the effect that the defeat of Germany must make the USSR the dominant military power in Europe . |
| 21 | I had mentioned the unquantifiable public relationships which could be generated during a secondment and argued for the intangible value of the many hundreds of contacts I had made which could not easily be costed in purely fiscal terms . |
| 22 | It was on several different levels and had large rooms which could not easily be split . |
| 23 | Right-wingers in Shamir 's Cabinet were understood to regard the pace of settlement building in the occupied territories as crucial in creating facts on the ground which could not easily be eliminated by developments at the diplomatic level [ see also p. 38550 ] . |
| 24 | At its most distinct , it includes work which could not physically be produced by a non-Disabled person ( for example , drawing as seen by someone with a specific visual impairment , or using muscle spasm to create a particular photographic quality ) . |
| 25 | However , there were even more terrible signs of this supposedly new streak of violent irritability to be found among the youth of working-class neighbourhoods , which could not even be justified on the grounds of over-enthusiastic jingo patriotism . |
| 26 | ‘ In all these circumstances I think that it is a proper inference that , in the case of each journey in question , the plaintiffs paid the money unwillingly and only because they apprehended on reasonable grounds that without the permit which could not otherwise be obtained officers acting under the authority of the State of New South Wales would or might stop the motor vehicle and refuse to allow it to proceed upon the journey . |
| 27 | Whilst an estimate of our fees has been given , additional costs may be required as a result of any material change in the assignment or difficulties in obtaining information which could not reasonably be foreseen and which caused additional work not included in the original estimate . |
| 28 | In its manifesto , the Ulster Unionist Party said : ‘ We can not accept as stable any system of governance which could not equally be applied to any other regional entity within the UK . ’ |
| 29 | The decisions made in 1968 and 1969 by Heseltine , then just appointed press secretary , and the equerry to Prince Charles , Squadron Leader David Checketts , opened a door which could not afterwards be closed . |
| 30 | Moreover , some agreements enabled local authorities to obtain gains which could not legally be achieved through a condition . |