Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are national interests which may override even City interests , for a time , at any rate . |
| 2 | For example , a larger combination microwave which may cost over £3500 is ideal for turning over consistently large batches . |
| 3 | The invading army was evidently homeward bound and perhaps disinclined for a renewed engagement , which may explain why Cadafael ( HB ch. 65 ) and Oethelwald ( HE 111 , 24 ) withdrew before battle was joined . |
| 4 | Mr Brandreth was President of the Oxford Union in 1968 and stayed on the following year , a high profile position which may explain why Mr Clinton remembers him . |
| 5 | In 1939 fashions were similar to the 1960s vogue , which may explain why Mr Cross believed the girl was real rather than an apparition . |
| 6 | The sociologist then finds that this general picture ( the theory ) suggests certain ideas which may explain why non-Christians wish to have their babies undergo a ceremony in a religious belief to which they themselves do not subscribe . |
| 7 | A special interest is in ‘ flashpoints ’ : small scale incidents which may trigger off reactions from those not immediately involved . |
| 8 | This product will form the basis of a range of ozone-benign ‘ Klea ’ Blends which should replace both CFCs and HCFCs across the range of refrigeration and air-conditioning applications . |
| 9 | Fund officials fear that the budget deficit may swell this year from 37 billion pesos ( $1.5 billion ) in 1992 to 75 billion pesos , or 6% of GDP , which might push up interest rates again . |
| 10 | One of the cages had a movable inner wall which could slide along rails the full length of the interior . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , work is under way on a European Commission draft directive which could tighten up demands already implicit in UK fire safety regulations . |
| 12 | Mr Heseltine is expected soon to release a white paper on energy policy which could set out plans for saving some of the jobs at pits BC want to close . |
| 13 | The shamanic kahunas from Hawaii taught that there was an energy called ‘ mana ’ which could Mow over threads of shadowy body substance and could carry thought forms . |
| 14 | This was due to the fact that Wilkinson had invented a boring mill in 1774 which could bore out cannons to very fine limits . |
| 15 | FIVE BANKS , which could lose over £100m if money market transactions by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are ruled unlawful , should not be allowed to appear at the hearing into their legality , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | In its first twenty or thirty years of life the new Board was rather more active than the Lords of Trade ; between 1720 and 1760 effective executive power passed to the Secretary of State in charge of relations with France and southern Europe , though the Board still served as the main clearing house for the American pressure groups which could keep up London connections ; in the last twenty years of its life , when Gibbon was a member , it was as complete a sinecure as he could have wished because power had now passed to the holder of a new Secretaryship of State . |
| 17 | But so do many of the opposition groups here , entertaining a touching if economically illiterate faith in a third way which would involve neither reunification nor a return to capitalism . |
| 18 | Although one of the gowns sent by Tamar was quite deep brown in colour , the other was of a pretty shade of blue , which would set off Martha 's eyes , which were the same deep blue as her father 's . |
| 19 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 20 | On May 19 Petar Beron , the UDF secretary , claimed during a tour of Western countries that the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd was preparing a European Community ( EC ) declaration which would rule out assistance for communist governments . |
| 21 | One of the new criteria , which would rule out Boston , New York and London as races with world record credentials , is that the start should not be further away from the finish than 30 per cent of the total distance run . |
| 22 | On political grounds , Major may decide against putting in either a strong right-winger , which would rule out Portillo and Howard , or such a pronounced left-winger as Clarke . |
| 23 | However poor , a child who passed the hurdle of the special place examination would get an education which would open up university or further training and , if not that , a white-collar , clean , respectable job — and in many cases an allowance to help with his or her maintenance . |
| 24 | Rick Parry , the Premier League 's chief executive , is close to arranging a four-year deal that could bring the League more than £30m , which would mean over £300,000 each in phased payments to member clubs . |
| 25 | Ironically , it was a sentence linguist who both coined the term ‘ discourse analysis ’ and initiated a search for language rules which would explain how sentences were connected within a text by a kind of extended grammar . |
| 26 | So but the residual element which would carry on south through Harrogate is |
| 27 | On June 7 , the government named a committee of experts which would draw up proposals for a draft constitution on the basis of previous constitutions and the report of the National Commission of Democracy , which advocated an executive president and a national assembly , both to be elected on the basis of universal suffrage , an independent judiciary and guarantees of human rights . |
| 28 | This was used as the basis for invitations , issued at the end of 1857 , to the nobility of every province to form committees which would draw up projects for the emancipation of their peasants . |
| 29 | In future , however , energy matters would be kept under review by a new advisory panel of independent experts which would suggest how information should be interpreted on the way in which markets were developing and studies that should be carried out , similar to ones which were commissioned for the coal review . |
| 30 | We shall say the same if , when the testator had instituted a sole heir , for the sake of the person who would be heir on intestacy he wrote ‘ I ask in place of the estate which I left to you , which would pass on intestacy to my brother , that you be content with 100 gold pieces . ' |