Example sentences of "which [pron] would [vb infin] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always treat the caller in the way in which you would hope to be treated . |
| 2 | Suggest a set of sequences of assignment statements , which you would expect to be typical of programs involving arithmetic calculation . |
| 3 | Cordelia , like Coriolanus , is being forced into a ceremony in which she would have to be false to her own nature . |
| 4 | The heads of the metatarsals were fused , which one would expect to be accomplished by nineteen years , but fusion had not taken place in the secondary pelvic centres . |
| 5 | The most noteworthy cases are those which one would expect to be pleonastic , but are not . |
| 6 | One of the many unusual facets of Hannah Hauxwell is her reaction to certain situations which would daunt much more apparently sophisticated people and which one would expect to be overwhelming for a simple soul from the back of beyond , such as meeting , on level terms some of the famous and mighty , or appearing in front of milling crowds and even standing up to address them . |
| 7 | There 's work that needs to be done , in most of the major sports grounds , but that 's proceeding and there 's , if you can imagine that there 's , in Shrewsbury for example , a lot of the work which we would want to be done on the grounds have been less than enthusiastic about doing , because they 're likely not to be there for very long . |
| 8 | ( He does not even make any special point about the dishonesty which there would seem to be in doing this when acceptance of those claims is not the cause of one 's own attitude — to do so would be , from his point of view , to play the moralist rather than the philosopher who should simply describe ethical discourse . ) |
| 9 | Of the predators , fruit pigeons were abundant on figs whose seeds are inviable thereafter , but they avoided , as in the Trinidad example , the large fruits , such as those of Dysoxylum ( Meliaceae ) , which they would appear to be able to deal with ( these fruits are dispersed by hornbills ) . |
| 10 | I promise him the same standard of service in my car as that which he would expect to be provided by a Conservative borough , or even a Conservative taxi service operated by myself . |
| 11 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 12 | ‘ Thus skidding violently from one side to the other , his youth approached the moment at which he would begin to be a person . ’ |
| 13 | On the other hand it was necessary to acquire an elementary understanding of the issues involved , examine previous work on measuring the required parameters and in particular learn something about canopy structure so as to assess the extent to which it would need to be taken into consideration . |
| 14 | Perhaps this position can best be tested by taking an extreme example — a crime which it would seem to be impossible to accept as being within the ‘ normal ’ range of human motivations : sexual abuse of children . |
| 15 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 16 | Finally , they should be complex — meaning that they should be definite , with a full analytical description of why the particular ideology is appropriate , even specifying conditions under which it would cease to be appropriate . |