Example sentences of "[noun sg] which would [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accordingly the Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury recommended a different approach ( but only for death or personal injury ) in the form of a parent statute which would empower a Minister to ‘ list ’ dangerous things or activities as giving rise to strict liability . |
| 2 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 3 | Among the peers identified by the parliamentary writer Andrew Roth as voting in favour of a measure which would oblige a labourer to pay the same amount of tax as a millionaire were the Duke of Buccleuch , the biggest landowner in Europe , the beef magnate Lord Vestey , another of the richest men in Britain , and the eighty-three-year-old Marquis of Bath , of the Longleat Estate . |
| 4 | It was Mr Major who saw that in the preservation of the Union lay an issue which would strike a chord not only in Scotland , but across Britain . |
| 5 | Their Lordships find it quite impossible to say that he was in error , and still less in the kind of error which would entitle a reviewing court to intervene , by making the choice which he did . |
| 6 | Mr Kidd said the committee was producing a draft guide for management which would include a review of existing legislation in six European countries . |
| 7 | The study aimed to allow staff and parents time to think critically together about educational issues and their joint responsibilities , and to provide a brief record of the process which would include a monitoring commentary . |
| 8 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 9 | Elections should then follow for a constituent assembly which would draft a constitution . |
| 10 | But Sir Patrick said last night : ‘ I have never urged Sir Hal Miller or anyone else to withhold evidence which would advantage a defendant . |
| 11 | The duty will be owed where the landlord knows , or ought to have known , of a defect which would constitute a breach of his obligation to the tenant to repair the premises . |
| 12 | Built when the concept of arts centres was fashionable , it was seen as an ideal which would forge a cross-fertilisation of art forms , enabling theatre , dance , galleries and workshops to blend with bars , eating places and well-stocked sales points . |
| 13 | Moreover any rights theory which would justify a right of conscientious war-tax diversion without addressing these inequalities would appear defective to many . |
| 14 | To Escoffier the disadvantage of the bottled purée was that it could only be used for sauces , so he set about evolving a method which would ensure a supply of crushed tomatoes — by which he meant tomates concassées — for any dish which required them whenever the fresh fruit was unobtainable . |
| 15 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
| 16 | Even in the realm of symbolism Charles did not provide the only precedent : Otto 's father , Henry I , had apparently bought the famous Holy Lance for the cost of a substantial part of what is now Switzerland ; and the Holy Lance was viewed as a talisman which would help a king to victory and as a token to be possessed by any candidate to the empire . |
| 17 | It was as Everett had feared — the Golden Share was being seen as a kind of sterilization pill which would prevent a takeover and a profitable union . |
| 18 | He explained she had to stand in the wings directing the beam of a torch at a strategically placed mirror which would send a reflection of light dancing across the back-cloth of Never-Never Land . |
| 19 | On capital spending we tended to concentrate on that spending which would show a return on the investment and if we could we 've postponed er , maintenance spending erm , renewal of cars and that kind of thing . |
| 20 | All reports to this date were looking to the development of a large area to the north of Saville Street in North Shields town centre with a view to creating a new shopping centre which would serve a population of some 70 000 , although at various times more grandiose claims about potential catchment area were made . |
| 21 | Within this perspective , the need to develop in every child a facility with skills of study , library use and information handling was clearly significant , as was some ideal of a fully integrated , centralised resources centre which would provide a hub for the wide range of activities comprising the curriculum . |
| 22 | Within the hour the camera , the film and the physical chemistry became so clear that with a great sense of excitement I hurried to the place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure . |
| 23 | At the very least , if the best conditions for improvement were to obtain , they saw the need to ensure that illegal importations did not occur and that it was valuable to have information which would allow a judgement as to whether the slave population was increasing . |
| 24 | I decided to draw up a proposal for a book which would attempt a synthesis of structuralist and feminist ideas — not with any enthusiasm , and with the hope that it would never actually get done . |
| 25 | Cancel milk , papers and any other delivery which would let a thief know that your house is empty . |
| 26 | He said last night : ‘ Until now we have not had a real marker which would tell a cancer cell from a normal cell . ’ |
| 27 | To meet this development section 17(2) was inserted into the Act and provides that where an application is made for an interlocutory injunction and the party against whom it is sought claims that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall , in exercising its discretion whether or not to grant the injunction , have regard to the likelihood of that party 's succeeding at the trial of the action in establishing the matter which would afford a defence under the Act . |
| 28 | Farmers , concerned about the disappearance of casual labour , built dwellings on their land which would ensure a pool of workers and these houses were known as ‘ tied ’ houses because they were rented from the employer rather than ‘ open ’ houses rented directly from the landowner . |
| 29 | One of the main objectives of the negotiators was to devise a new system which would avoid a return to the economic conditions of the 1930s . |
| 30 | Admittedly , this has been achieved , in part , by the kind of chicanery and double book-keeping which would earn a jail sentence for the treasurer-secretary of a small glue factory . |