Example sentences of "which [modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other outlets for lay piety which may have channelled that desire for corporate activity embodied in the European Beguinages were the lay fraternities of contemplative communities and the city guilds which provided both temporary contemplative retreats for those in active life , and active expressions of social concern which embodied the love of God . |
| 2 | The National Curriculum subjects will therefore have to be given priority for resources , especially where schools have not offered the full curriculum to all pupils , or in primary schools which may have done little science and technology . |
| 3 | Unhappily , habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance . |
| 4 | The Allegri sounded a bit under-nourished against Mr Campbell 's easy delivery , particularly in the second movement , which should have had more force , though if one expects a bracing scherzo-like piece at this point , Bliss surely over-wrote it , producing instead the effect of a finale . |
| 5 | The diplomacy which must have preceded this match , and Cnut 's desire for it , imply worries about Robert 's attitude which were to prove well founded . |
| 6 | This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ‘ Lenin 's Political Testament ’ , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time . |
| 7 | It was once thought that the Chardonnay vine was brought to Champagne from Cyprus by knights returning from the Crusades , which might have provided some sort of answer , but this theory has since been discredited . |
| 8 | But there was some comfort in the figures for the Government and for an already hard-pressed pound , which could have faced another battering if the deficit had been worse than the expected £1.5billion . |
| 9 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 10 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 11 | Second , we have seen off the threat of a world trade war which would have destroyed any hope of economic recovery . |
| 12 | The whole br reason for bringing the scheme forward in the programme was associated with the waste management plant and it was n't er er a scheme which would have achieved that priority in its own right . |
| 13 | David McCathie fought back from 22–12 down at 17 ends and almost pulled off a five on the last which would have secured another point for Essex but Paul Maynard continued his winning momentum to ensure the overall venue win . |
| 14 | In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases . |
| 15 | For my part I think that there is abundant evidence which would have justified this court in substituting findings that Miss T. was not in a physical or mental condition which enabled her to reach a decision binding on the medical authorities and that even if , contrary to that view , she would otherwise have been in a position to reach such a decision , the influence of her mother was such as to vitiate the decision which she expressed . |
| 16 | Nonni should have answered , of course , that they stayed cleaner longer , which would have made some kind of sense to my aunts . |
| 17 | I began to pole and pray with a vigour which would have astonished any monk . |
| 18 | The reluctant courtier gave his master a look which would have extinguished any man with a less armour-plated ego . |
| 19 | News of the surrender of Paulus and 90,000 soldiers of the 6th Army — which would have provided some relief for their distraught relatives — had to be kept quiet to maintain the legend of total and selfless sacrifice for the nation in the ‘ greatest epic in German history ’ . ’ |
| 20 | John had spent months on a diet which would have counted this country meal as a feast fit for any Honourable Member of Parliament in the land . |