Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [verb] [been] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , we have to make sure that older people have increased opportunities for personal fulfilment after their retirement from employment which may have been both meaningful and given them their self-esteem . |
| 2 | Within the enclosure , which may have been quite small , there were sometimes cult buildings , sometimes not . |
| 3 | However , testing memory for a specific item like a road sign does not tell the researcher about overall levels of memory which may have been quite good for other details . |
| 4 | The only exception to this pattern is the iron knife , an everyday tool which is frequently found in graves , and which may have been more personalised than the more specialised tools and therefore buried with the owner . |
| 5 | Somehow the comment , which should have been entirely innocent , seemed loaded with an undercurrent of meaning . |
| 6 | A publisher is eligible for membership when they publish fifteen titles , ten of which must have been commercially exploited land they must all have been written by PRS writer members ) . |
| 7 | His flesh was red and raw , but even after wounding himself like that , which must have been pretty painful , he did n't stop . |
| 8 | There were limits to the concentration of troops because of transportation , food supplies , and manoeuvring on the battlefield which must have been intuitively evident to any ancient general . |
| 9 | I 'd read an article by Jon Mendlesohn in Rolling Stone , which emanated from a trip he took to Los Angeles the year before , which must have been about 1970 , that said that there was this guy who did weird songs and dressed up in dresses . |
| 10 | Many of the linguistic elements are borrowed from Tolkien and — which must have been more exasperating for their originator — changed and got ‘ wrong ’ . |
| 11 | At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) . |
| 12 | Considering Maurice 's wife was an exceptionally plain woman , there were a good many ripostes Charlie could have made , ripostes which might have been transparently insulting . |
| 13 | In the past ministers have been charged with failing to refer mergers which might have been politically sensitive , despite claims that a strong economic case existed for referral . |
| 14 | Franco gave them a look which might have been faintly disapproving . |
| 15 | No , Carnelian definitely seemed uninterested in killing or injuring Jaq and companions ; aside from the injury to Meh'Lindi 's esteem , and Jaq 's own , which might have been purely incidental … |
| 16 | This was not a very positive thing to say because Ralph lost some morale which could have been very dangerous at such an early stage . |
| 17 | The Fenian menace legitimated the establishment of a specifically political police , which would have been utterly unacceptable in the climate of early nineteenth-century Britain ( Porter , 1987 ) . |
| 18 | A young Australian colleague of mine , with a Canadian collaborator , published ( Somatic Selection and Adaptive Evolution , Chicago UP ) some wayout views on inheritance of acquired immunological tolerance which would have been immensely important if they had been true . |
| 19 | Of all these possibilities the first was the one which would have been most damaging to Baldwin . |
| 20 | A now famed example of the former ( and we understand that it is now denied by Rolls Royce ) is that the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was nearly called the Silver Mist which would have been most unfortunate when selling to the German market . |
| 21 | They were rather pleased with themselves for saying this , because it was something the Gruagach would find quite flattering and , also , it had not referred to the Wolfkings , which would have been extremely discourteous , not to say disastrous . |
| 22 | Although it is clear that these changes were made in order to admit light to the new , deep-plan living accommodation , it is conceivable that the judicious use of ranges of standard reversible and ventilating roof windows might have provided an answer to this requirement which would have been less erosive of the original external appearance . |
| 23 | I believe we lost them all the moment he began lying to me — which would have been about four hours after he first climbed into bed somewhere strange , with someone else . |
| 24 | Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been . |
| 25 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 26 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |
| 27 | Moreover , the Soviet negotiators had clearly hoped to sell some of the sugar on the world market , which would have been highly advantageous to them , but the Cubans insisted on the insertion of a clause prohibiting re-export to their traditional markets . |
| 28 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 29 | This meant that in each case a secondary modern school which would have been too small to survive was absorbed quietly and without fuss into the grammar school , which did not bother to change its name . |
| 30 | And there is an increasing number of instances of assault at work targeted at community nurses and staff on accident and emergency units in hospital ( Finney , 1988 ) , a circumstance which would have been almost unthinkable even a decade ago . |