Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Similarly , although many physically handicapped adults are extremely independent in their everyday lives , the AL of maintaining a safe environment is one aspect of living with which they may need considerable help . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | One of the courtyard structures lay alongside Ermine Street ( No. 1 ) , with its other long side adjoining the precinct ( No. 2 ) with which it may have been associated . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | The strength of this xenophobia is the fear of the unknown , of the darkness into which we may fall when the landmarks which seem to provide an objective , a permanent , a positive delimitation of our belonging together , disappear . |
| 36 | The movement is one to be welcomed if it proceeds along the right lines , the lines along which it may develop and not hamper national life . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | This brings us inevitably to international law : the rules which make agreements between states binding ; the rules which seek to limit from the outside the kinds of actions which states may take in relation to each other and provide a framework within which they may negotiate . |
| 39 | Town Halls need to develop electronic gateways through which all sections of the community can pass , and in which they may stand and talk to their neighbours and do business if they so wish . |
| 40 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | One problem with this kind of criticism is that the ‘ images ’ in question have often been misinterpreted , since they have been discussed without reference to the context or narrative structure in which they may appear . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Major banks and building societies have found that establishing offshore branches gives them far greater scope to offer accounts that pay interest gross ; within the UK the circumstances in which they may do this are very limited . |
| 45 | His novels , whether for young or adult readers , are centred on boys in the process of growing to manhood : he does not probe in depth into the feelings of his young heroes , but he does develop them in relation to events in which they may play convincingly passive or active roles in the fortunes of war . |
| 46 | ‘ Even those who make money out of it — not just the pushers and dealers — are destroying the society in which they may wish to appear affluent . ’ |
| 47 | This factsheet can only suggest some of the ways in which they may help you . |
| 48 | For example , salesmen and/or engineers will be trained to sell and/or service a specific product in which they may develop technical expertise and thereby offer a better sales and after-sales service to customers ; |
| 49 | These are some of the ways in which we may expect the Spirit of God to illuminate not only the person of God but his will for us . |
| 50 | In this chapter , I shall attempt to separate the parts that make up the whole , then to explore some of the ways in which we may bring about harmony to mind-body-spirit . |
| 51 | Our farmers , seeking retribution or justice , and our consumers , who are equally seeking those concepts , now have to go to Brussels , for there is no way in which we may satisfy their aspirations . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | This is achieved by sound nutrition , adequate exercise , fresh air and sunshine , and above all , by seeking the ways in which we may find inner contentment . |
| 54 | Literary texts are not some static crystalline structure in which we may glimpse a captured immobile past . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | There are difficult conditions in which it is possible to race honourably ; there are absurd conditions in which one may race honourably if slowly ; and there are conditions in which it is impossible to race . |
| 57 | There are many possible ways in which one may incur tortious liability through the instrumentality of an animal under one 's control , but the fact that the agent happens to be animate rather than inanimate is immaterial , for while the common law , like other legal systems , developed special or additional rules of liability for animals , it did not deny the applicability to them of the general law . |
| 58 | The skeletal muscles of insects have a complex structure , in which one may distinguish ( i ) the fibrous contractile system , ( ii ) the mitochondria , ( iii ) the tracheal and nervous supply , and ( iv ) the membrane systems ( Smith , 1961 — 66 ) . |
| 59 | The other interesting mixed show this week is the Bluecoat Christmas Annual , in which one may sense the up-and-coming nature of work in all media by Liverpool artists . |
| 60 | The idea of ‘ subjective meaning ’ is a loose one , covering all ways in which someone may act deliberately or expressively and excluding only reflex actions . |