Example sentences of "which [modal v] [vb infin] a " 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 | Articles may reveal diversification plans which may mean a company suddenly becomes a potential customer ; advertisements for personnel may reveal plans for expansion , again suggesting potential new business . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | It can be useful to refer to something you all have in common , which may restore a feeling of harmony . |
| 5 | Mr Bond is desperate for the deal to stand , since Bell Resources is crucial to his A$2.5billion brewery deal with New Zealand 's Lion Nathan which may underpin a debt restructuring plan for his entire media , property and brewing group , currently labouring to reduce around A$8billion of debts . |
| 6 | As the Lord Chancellor indicated when the Bill was in committee , the provision was deliberately tailored to meet those exceptional cases involving ‘ the sort of invention which may revolutionise a company or perhaps even a whole industry ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 : . |
| 10 | Groups no less than individuals ( although not in quite the same sense as individuals ) are subject to fits of passion , self-deception and hysteria which may create a temporary majority for decisions which will later be regretted . |
| 11 | Intense pain or spasm of the surrounding muscles which may suggest a fracture . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This year the tee is 15 yards further back , which may preclude a repetition , though no trees have been planted , as was hinted , to prevent the feat . |
| 14 | Try to remain aware of the factors which may make a newly admitted patient anxious . |
| 15 | These checks are very important because they can show , for instance , if there are likely to be any difficulties with the birth which may make a Caesarean section necessary . |
| 16 | I addition a contractor should plan for the cost of overheads , which may represent a sizable item of expenditure each month . |
| 17 | The parts of the world — the Third World — which may suffer a loss , real or relative , as a result are generally estimated to have a debt of $1300 billion . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A monosyllable which may precede a noun . |
| 20 | We will do our best to comply with special requests ( e.g. adjoining rooms ) , which may involve a supplementary charge , payable locally , but no guarantee can be made . |
| 21 | ( This means that the user sees ‘ primitive ’ spatial operations and not a whole spatial problem which may involve a sequence of primitive operations ) . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | The disk is round , diameter up to 14 mm , covered by small imbricating scales , each of which may carry a single red-like spinelet , the tip of which may be multifid or simply abraded . |
| 24 | Cultured LC ( which may bear a phenotypic and functional relationship to LC that have migrated to lymph nodes ) express lower levels of E-cadherin and exhibit decreased affinity for KC . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One of the most important measures in the effective treatment of sickle cell disease is to minimise the number of crises by educating sufferers and their families about circumstances which may trigger a sickling crisis . |
| 28 | In time , however , they may learn to cope and discover a great deal in the child they have raised , which may lead a life which is no less happy , but just ‘ different ’ to that of others in some ways . |
| 29 | The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a hitherto generally unobserved feature of the parallelistic couplet in Hebrew poetry , a feature which may offer a point de départ for a revised perception of the nature of the parallelistic couplet as such . |
| 30 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |