Example sentences of "which [modal v] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a distinction which may in the end prove more suggestive than serviceable : the author who tells , and who can be accounted something of a ventriloquist , may well , for instance , be more than capable of carnival , and may even be every bit as plural in his works as his dialogic counterpart . |
| 2 | ‘ They are anxious that they should not go on running a system which may in the long term be at a loss , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Culturally and linguistically , Britain offers a nexus of increasingly plural possibilities , a promising ground for a postmodernism which may in the future develop more strongly in Britain than it has hitherto . |
| 4 | However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power . |
| 5 | whether this is only a temporary down-turn which may in the end not necessitate redundancies on the scale now envisaged ; |
| 6 | any name the use of which would in the opinion of the Secretary of State constitute a criminal offence or be offensive . |
| 7 | His main contribution to the development of the south Wales coalfield was his construction of a masonry dock at Cardiff ; opened in 1839 , it was the first of the five Bute docks , docks which would in the late nineteenth century be handling more coal than any other port in the world . |