Example sentences of "[prep] which we may [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | This , of course , is easier than finding provable hypotheses for which we may expect evidence within the earth 's crust . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Literary texts are not some static crystalline structure in which we may glimpse a captured immobile past . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Plainly , in the minds of the Pioneers they were ; yet Cole uses language from which we may infer that they were not . |
| 12 | At the same time , it has permitted the formation of a more precise theory of relationships from which we may deduce evolutionary pathways . |
| 13 | Plants are normally under some form of stress — heat or light stress are two of many forms — but nevertheless plants are generally healthy , from which we may conclude that nature is continually carrying out a delicate balancing act among the contributing reactions making up the complete photosynthetic ‘ machinery ’ . |
| 14 | In some ways we should consider ourselves lucky if we get these types of responses to stress , because for others , unfortunately , there are other responses to stress that may also occur , such as ulcers and heart disease , from which we may get less warning . |
| 15 | By the end of the book , " culture " has become a metaphor for some kind of Bradleyan unity to which we may aspire but which we can never reach ; idealism consorts oddly with Eliot 's sociology , however , and it is not at all clear if " culture " is a neutral term used to describe the whole way of life of a people or if it is being employed as a diagnostic tool to evaluate the various standards and aspirations of a society . |
| 16 | The cost is exorbitant and the Government should take this opportunity to tell that to local authorities , especially in relation to students , although there are other categories to which we may refer in other clauses and amendments . |
| 17 | The degree to which we may have to , to use a fairly shoddy word , compromise . |
| 18 | To describe the positions and velocities of atoms in a polymer requires choosing a set of global axes , defining a continuum , with reference to which we may describe the positions and velocities of the atoms . |
| 19 | This would be true for at least two of the examples of ( 18 ) , to which we may add at random : ( 32 ) some delegates who were German frowned the starling which is inquisitive is female It is emphatically not the answer to say , " those which can not become postnominal attributives turn into prenominals instead " , for two reasons : first , as we have already seen , there is a major difference of function between prenominal position and predicative position as occupied by the adjective in the sort of relative clause proposed ; and , second , this still leaves us facing the question of why some relative clauses can apparently be reduced to postnominal adjectives and others can not ( indeed this question , previously passed by , has been in serious need of an answer from those who want to relate prenominal adjectives — or simply attributives in general — to predicative position ) . |
| 20 | Another related problem is in the general vagueness of the relationship between the constraints of capitalism and the scope for state autonomy and pluralistic policy-making processes — none of the structuralist approaches offer clear criteria according to which we may define the limits of each . |
| 21 | And although no precise mechanism for contextual retrieval has been given , the parallel with occasion setting has been noted and forms a basis on which we may build . |
| 22 | The dream ( on which we may try hard to impose a narrative structure , to make sense of it ) is unlike much fantasy in that it often does n't , of itself , contain any such structure , and the ‘ story ’ , if it tells one , may be deeply unintelligible to us . |
| 23 | ‘ The truth in question is hidden , lying concealed beneath appearances ; we must then inquire , since its nature is not open to us , whether it is still possible to know it through some sign and whether we have a criterion by which we may recognize the sign and judge what the thing truly is . ’ |
| 24 | In the treaty of union , where is the mechanism by which we may change the law ? |
| 25 | Gagné has provided a formula by which we may detect what is missing from a student 's repertoire . |
| 26 | In summary , one can say that one can not teach any creature to mentally be like any other , since we have no handle by which we may modify the essential mind structure of another creature . |
| 27 | ‘ My life with Gary and my mother and her occult friends has enabled me to pick out the symptoms by which we may recognise those who are involved in the occult . |
| 28 | Not least the new abilities by which we may see human existence anew — relativistically , that is , each person imprisoned in his own umwelt , his own conceptual universe . ’ |