Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] may [vb infin] " 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 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 4 | This means that , before you begin to think about colours and the names of varieties , you have to be clear about what you would like to do and what it is possible to do , perhaps planting kinds and types about which you may have heard but are not familiar with and which would add variation and interest to your garden . |
| 5 | This is also tied up with the new contract bidding system , about which you may have read in the press . |
| 6 | Wait to hear re Bank ( ie if any i/view ) , and ditto Health Education Board for Scotland , Common Purpose ( a fascinating organisation about which you may have read in the papers ) , the Scottish Rugby Union ( ! ) and some others . |
| 7 | Personally I am not alarmed and , unless they are upset by their own extremists , it would not surprise me were they to remain in office for some time , during which they may do considerable good . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But it is also true that journalists and editors know full well that public relations is an important source of information for their work and often can be the instrument through which they may obtain their story . |
| 12 | In a sense anti-perfectionism is merely a more radical restriction of the employment of means through which one may pursue conceptions of the good . |
| 13 | I am the carbuncle of the sun , the most noble purified earth , through which you may change copper , iron , tin and lead into gold . |
| 14 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 15 | If the Purchaser shall be in receipt of any claim , or any fact or circumstance comes to the notice of the Purchaser which might constitute or give rise to a liability pursuant to any of the warranties the Purchaser shall forthwith notify the Vendor giving full details so far as practicable and shall not make any admission of liability or settle or comprise any such claim without the prior written consent of the Vendor such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ( subject to being indemnified and secured to its reasonable satisfaction against all costs and expenses incurred or for which it may become liable ) ; |
| 16 | This can reduce weight but it also constitutes drug-taking , for which you may face a lifetime ban . |
| 17 | Alternatively , you may be able to put a short note in the next ‘ Contact ’ for which you may include my address , if required . |
| 18 | Much of this spending went on new industrial units , schemes that might take years to implement , and for which there may have been an appropriate upper limit . |
| 19 | Suddenly , the division bells ring and the room empties , milords making their way to vote in a debate of which they may have heard not a word . |
| 20 | Because of what has gone before , young people coming into residential care need security and a sense of belonging , neither of which they may have experienced in great measure before . |
| 21 | The tour is designed to give pupils an opportunity to experience a variety of activities , some of which they may wish to develop in the future . |
| 22 | In the latter , it is ‘ public opinion ’ — ‘ a scattered discourse that in part belongs to each of the individuals of a society but of which none may claim ownership ’ — which underwrites the verisimilitude of the text , allows its relationship to its referent to be probable , necessary , and therefore true , and naturalizes its conventions : ‘ public opinion therefore functions as a rule of genre that relates to all genres . ’ |
| 23 | Now I am not entirely sure these were the exact names , but the point was they reminded Mr Smith and Mr Jones of the music hall act , Murphy , Saltman and Brigid the Cat , of which you may have heard . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State may receive representations in the light of which he may decide to require a particular application to be referred to him for decision . |
| 25 | His predominant mode , in the Clarendon Building and All Souls designs and at Queen 's , as well as in other works , such as the Christ Church buttery ( 1722 ) and his Durham quadrangle range at Trinity College ( 1728 ) , was a simplified version of the baroque of Hawksmoor and Sir John Vanbrugh [ q.v. ] ; but the fellows ' building at Corpus Christi College , of which he may have been the designer as well as the builder , was close to the proto-Palladian manner of the Peckwater quadrangle , while his Radcliffe quadrangle at University College ( 1717–19 ) — again devised under Clarke 's direction — and his additions at Oriel College ( 1719–20 ) were faithful copies of the traditional Jacobean style of the adjoining buildings , the former including a skilfully executed Gothic vault . |
| 26 | An additional financial burden for a woman in situations such as these may be that of arrears which have accrued , of which she may have been previously unaware ( Ginsburg , 1979 , p. 128 ) . |
| 27 | Some indication of the immense editorial difficulties that arose , many of which I may say were not solved until the , the Pléiade edition in three volumes of nineteen fifty-four , some of the difficulty I think is hinted at , at any rate , in a recent description of the state of Proust 's papers at the moment of his death , and I quote : ‘ Huge packets of type- and manuscript , the pages festooned with half-illegible addenda , and blackened with savage deletions which had swallowed up entire paragraphs , heaped the ugly little bamboo table that stood near his death-bed , and overflowed from the shelves of the table along the top of the nearby chimneypiece . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Students have the opportunity to develop areas of interest with which they may have some familiarity from secondary education but they will also experience new attitudes , techniques , materials and concepts . |
| 30 | Cultural items are torn from their natural social context and lumped together , in the most arbitrary fashion , with similarly uprooted , and hence distorted , elements with which they may have no necessary connection . |