Example sentences of "[pron] which [modal v] [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stocker was at pains to say : ‘ We have nothing which could be tested on humans … nothing yet which can help Aids patients or people infected with the Aids virus or any other virus . ’ |
| 2 | They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government . |
| 3 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 4 | They can be teamed up with an additional pair of short curtains hanging above them which would be drawn at night , thus giving a tiered effect . |
| 5 | But they reaped no advantage ; there was nothing moving towards them which could be deemed to be a consideration , with the result that the case is one in which the contract is made , but remains unenforceable in law … . |
| 6 | Because occupants can not be trusted to conserve fuel , liberties of theirs which may be infringed against by centralisation of control are dismissible since they are liberties to do mischief . |
| 7 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 8 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 9 | The first payment due to you which will be credited to your business bank account will be on week commencing the seventh of the February . |
| 10 | I think it helps if you can identify whether the the erm depression is just caused by erm the circumstances round about you which can be alleviated by changing them or if it 's caused by eating habits or erm or erm hormones or chemical imbalances in , I 've suffered , I think , from all them as well ! |
| 11 | Ticking off items on a mental list , Ashley decided that everything which might be needed for the weekend had been packed . |
| 12 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |
| 13 | This will be dealt with in greater detail in Chapter 8 , but it needs to be mentioned briefly here as something which should be agreed at the outset . |
| 14 | These documents together with covering letters enable MAS and the vendor to control the sale process , something which should be used to maximum advantage to help enable an acceptable/full price in line with the agreed objectives to be achieved . |
| 15 | But , as has been shown , although their proportionate contribution increased over the period it is not something which should be interpreted in wholly optimistic terms . |
| 16 | On the other hand the point , for example , that one priest is , is a very distinct possibility , is something which could be expressed in some way I would have thought . |
| 17 | As we have seen , scientia , or scientific knowledge as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from an observation-based study of the natural world . |
| 18 | What caused its collapse was Craig 's conversion to something which could be presented to loyalists as power-sharing . |
| 19 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 20 | In future , it recommended the construction of something which could be transported to several shows . |
| 21 | The navy in the nineteenth century may have been an Insurance policy for free trade , but Pax Britannica was not something which could be taken for granted , even by Victorian Britons . |
| 22 | Use quotations , something which could be lifted as such . |
| 23 | This last phrase , used in my diary , is a revealing one : cold was n't something imposed on me by anything as trivial as the outside temperature ; it was something which could be controlled from within and by myself alone . |
| 24 | Then it is also objected that utilitarian thinking , which has reached its apotheosis in modern cost benefit analysis , regards all values as commensurable , and therefore thinks of every harm as something which can be compensated for , reaching , it is felt , particularly repellent extremes when the value of a human life is calculated as something to be set against the goods achieved by a motorway or by economy in safety precautions at a factory . |
| 25 | They will see the gradual integration of text , graphics and video into a single multimedia approach as something which can be handled within the reskilling tradition which is now being established . |
| 26 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 27 | True relaxation is something which can be learned by anyone — although , like anything worth having , it does take a little practice . |
| 28 | Your notebook is the tool which enables you to take any experience , any observation , any physical sensation and turn it into something which can be shared by others . |
| 29 | His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production . |
| 30 | A will in my judgment is a document which must at least purport to contain something which can be described as a testamentary disposition . |