Example sentences of "[pron] which [modal v] [adv] have " in BNC.

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1 erm software one which which could possibly have
2 He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing .
3 Twisting the wire tie is hard too , but the binning itself is something which would certainly have earned me a Rainbow Award at play-school .
4 Their history , the interests of their members and the circumstances of conflict in Northern Ireland do not permit the evolution of Orangeism into something which would still have meaning if it abandoned its evangelical Protestant symbols and stated beliefs .
5 She has not cut herself off from her parents , however , as this is something which would only have led her to feel guilty and therefore decreased her confidence even further .
6 The Coroner said : This is something which ought never to have happened .
7 Another horror in its own right — but one which would also have wider economic implications .
8 ‘ … in 1940–1 a mere accident , and one which might easily have occurred , could … have reversed the outcome of the war and transformed the subsequent shape of the world ’ .
9 The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood .
10 It is also , of course , from the perspective of the defendant and the prosecutor the inconvenient and expensive course to take , and one which could never have been taken if the case had begun in front of a bench of three ( see e.g. Bromley JJ. ex p Haymills ( Contractors ) Ltd. [ 1984 ] Crim.L.R. 235 ) .
11 This change of function is one which could potentially have severe consequences for understanding .
12 The question was one which must often have arisen in this period of extensive rebuilding : Did an altar require to be reconsecrated after it had been moved ?
13 Ross is probably right that his is the more common sense view , but it may still strike us as extremely odd that it could ever be one 's duty not to do what which would certainly have the best results .
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