Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Such an organisation could take the form of a formal association which would arrange qualifying examinations and the provision of certificates , like the legal and accounting professional bodies , or at least operate in the manner of the existing MCA .
2 AN agreement has been struck between Darlington council , Quakers and a housing association which will enable elderly people to move back to the centre of town .
3 A network of European car manufacturers have established a new trade association which will place particular emphasis on the need to " green the car " .
4 In particular his concern with social benefit and social cost ( the costs of ill-health fall on the community , not just the individual ) , the view that welfare spending should be regarded as a social investment which could increase national productivity and efficiency and his technocratic approach to solving social problems are all typically Fabian .
5 Freud is not saying that the individual feels the emotion which may underlie religious beliefs and practices , and that this is why they are performed .
6 He knows what he wants and is determined to build a club which can produce sustained success year in , year out .
7 Engineering is not a glamorous pursuit , nor does Swindon produce the final glossy motor car which might lure potential workers .
8 Clearly , this is a programme which could command considerable support , but its development has been impeded by several problems .
9 ‘ Besides these measures , ’ said Mr Lang , ‘ the employment service in Scotland will be spending more than £10 million on the new community action programme which will enable unemployed people to undertake work of value to the community while retaining their entitlement to benefit . ’
10 The manager obtains information on any works programme which will reduce patient accommodation .
11 Labour will pull together the present unco-ordinated initiatives into a coherent urban programme which will strengthen local economies , generate jobs and improve the quality of people 's lives .
12 The third period saw even more frantic goalscoring as Titmuss scored four times and captain Parry twice , Brian Jackson finishing things off just before time with an unassisted goal his third of the game to cause a result which will shock rival teams in the league .
13 A research team from Edinburgh has discovered a previously undetected substance in young babies and is launching a three-year study which might prevent future deaths .
14 A research team in Edinburgh has discovered a substance previously undetected in young babies and is beginning a three-year study which may prevent future cot deaths .
15 The study is a small-scale exploratory study which will involve intensive interviews with 54 married women whose children are old enough not to require that degree of care and attention which makes it difficult for a married woman to take up full-time employment .
16 The judge would not have erred had he drawn attention to the circumstances ( which were in fact plain for all to see ) , but their Lordships reject the adoption of any rule which would impose new obligations on trial judges in their approach to the consideration of witnesses ' evidence and they refer to the judgment delivered by Ackner L.J .
17 He said he would not remove an alleged anomaly which could allow self-employed people to avoid the effect of Labour 's proposed abolition of the upper earnings limit on National Insurance contributions .
18 If your widowed parent had an unhappy married life , you will have a rather different problem on your hands , for hers will be a special kind of bereavement which will need great understanding and respect for its reality , which sometimes such widows do not receive .
19 ‘ Not one per cent here and a half per cent there , but a cut which will give small businesses an immediate boost and spread confidence throughout the economy .
20 Second , there was the need to construct a professional scholarly stance upon which to build modes of training consistent with the kinds of sensibility which would enable critical evaluation , not only of literature , but of fellow professionals .
21 We will try and take we will er as usual send young children definitely under the age of sixteen into shops to see if people will sell fireworks to them and if they do then er we will take the appropriate action which may mean criminal proceedings .
22 Was it fair to anybody to delay action which might hurt innocent investors ?
23 St William 's Foundation sees the need for a programme of action which will explore new paths , side step old obstacles , find lateral avenues to solution of apparently intractable problems .
24 Here , it seems , we have a current example of Britain needing to conceive of savagery belonging to outsiders , not a part of British civilisation but an external force which could undermine British institutions unless repressed .
25 Through the firm and persuasive advocacy of Marsh he was eventually permitted to incept , but the case provoked the university to decree that in future no scholar who had not ruled in arts could proceed to a degree in theology : a statute which would engender recurrent disputes between the friars and the university .
26 We have striven to avoid statements of attainment that require assessment which might have undesirable effects in the classroom , for example the use of language exercises out of context or other activities of an arid kind .
27 Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles , a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences .
28 Soviet leaders , at the end of the war , were understandably concerned to secure a settlement which would offer secure guarantees against a further invasion of this kind , and at the Moscow , Yalta and Potsdam conferences in 1944 and 1945 these objectives were largely achieved .
29 The compromise was a filler story which would make good use of the available studio .
30 Thus , by virtue of institutional demands , occupational conventions and perceived political legitimacy , the media as a whole are predisposed to adopt a style of coverage which will pay scant regard to analysis of the causes of protest or the grievances of protesters .
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