Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] which [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bangemann explicitly appealed to other European leaders not to suggest that German reunification was an immediate political issue or one which could be decided without dramatic changes in the political and security situation in Europe as a whole . |
| 2 | His example makes it seem that the circle is not simply a detachable result of , or something which can be considered in isolation from , certain motions , but rather something whose very nature and properties are essentially tied up with its method of production . |
| 3 | It is to my mind illegitimate to argue — this is a sale , the consideration for a sale is the price , price can only include money or something which can be readily converted into an ascertainable sum of money , therefore anything like wrappers which have no money value when delivered can not be part of the consideration . |
| 4 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 5 | It would , moreover , be inappropriate for the judiciary to be associated with any series of talks or anything which could be fairly interpreted as entertainment … |
| 6 | It is viewed as a ‘ foreign body ’ invading the department , rather than something which could be of potential value . |
| 7 | Ticking off items on a mental list , Ashley decided that everything which might be needed for the weekend had been packed . |
| 8 | Using these criteria ( as well as that which stipulated that they should not be paid carers ) we felt we would achieve a more homogeneous sample than if we had included people less closely involved , and one which would be confined to those with a significant input into the care of the dementia sufferer . |
| 9 | If a company ‘ lost ’ its accounts data , it would represent a serious loss and one which would be difficult to recover from . |
| 10 | This ‘ embarrassment ’ already identified by Christopher Ricks in connection with Keats ' poetic references to women , was not an evasion of the sensual but a deliberate avoidance of direct reference , a coyness that actually intensified erotic readings and one which may be said to dominate British sculpture during the period 1880–1910 , particularly in its representations of women . |
| 11 | A timely point and one which could be made into a test of this kind of narrative by which an author may be seen to have succeeded or failed to create the necessary suspension of disbelief . |
| 12 | A useful way of developing creative thinking and one which can be of great benefit when you are studying and looking for inspiration is the technique of key words or key terms . |
| 13 | Indeed , one of the key points about Berger and Mohr 's study is that such moral careers are being partly constructed by capital 's requirements for a cheap workforce and one which can be dismissed in line with fluctuating demands for the products they make . |
| 14 | Information by and for the travel industry is a major area in Prestel and one which can be readily exploited by school librarians ant teachers for curricular and personal use . |
| 15 | So the first choice really is between erm a sentence which is not an individualized one and one which can be individualized in justice and all the circumstance of the case . |
| 16 | You then begin to build up a story line , a structure and something which could be called interesting and could be the start of interesting idea . |
| 17 | In case of sudden death , take note of any witnesses and anything which may be needed in a statement for a coroner 's inquest . |
| 18 | On location or in the studio some subjects are just not very interesting , and anything which can be used to add interest will be very helpful . |
| 19 | If provision is to be made ( Clause 20.02.5 ) for retentions from the amount due on account of tax liabilities or compensation for damage caused to the firm by the outgoing partner ( a somewhat controversial matter , but one which might be considered , for example , in relation to increased indemnity insurance premiums becoming payable by the continuing partners as a result of the negligence of the outgoing partner ) the terms must be set out with clarity . |
| 20 | An afterthought , but one which may be taken as a portent of the future , was that Marks was not deterred by this initial failure . |
| 21 | This was to be not just a travel book but one which should be of use if , as seemed increasingly likely , we should be involved in hostilities with Italy : a circumstance which I nevertheless felt could , with diplomatic skill , be avoided . |
| 22 | It is only a rough-and-ready estimating method , but one which can be very useful ( if its limitations are recognised ) . |
| 23 | The questioning technique can be used at primary level , at first in quite a simple way , but one which can be developed , through worrying at a topic , hypothesising , attacking it from different angles , throwing in a bit of extra information or another piece of evidence , and seeing the effect they had , asking further questions . |
| 24 | That is an important concession but one which will be wasted if the Government does not accept that part it now has to play . |
| 25 | This is admittedly a rather crude distinction , but one which could be justified by the very uneven break — some 80 per cent of establishments were " non-users " for each category — which it produced ; For experimental purposes we also separated out " high user establishments where the number of fixed-term contract or agency workers used was the equivalent of five per cent or more of the labour force but the results thereby obtained were not more instructive than those obtained by the initial classification and so are reported upon only in a limited fashion . |
| 26 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |