Example sentences of "and [Wh det] [modal v] [vb infin] [be] " in BNC.

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1 But little is known about the chemical ‘ soup ’ of the oceans , and therefore the type of life that first became selected and concentrated there and which would have been different from that occurring , say , in rivers or stagnant pools .
2 I am happy to welcome that investment , and I imagine that it owes much to the climate and environment that the Government have created and which might have been threatened by an alternative settlement at Maastricht such as the Opposition would have supported and implemented if they were ever elected .
3 Compartmentation of the interior means that the building is experienced in a new way — details which were once distant ( and which may have been executed in the knowledge that they would not be viewed at close hand ) are seen in ‘ close-up ’ for the first time and in relation to much smaller and more intimate spaces ( Plate 20 ) .
4 The only exception to this pattern is the iron knife , an everyday tool which is frequently found in graves , and which may have been more personalised than the more specialised tools and therefore buried with the owner .
5 This type of analysis can be carried out for the whole country showing that there are a number of areas which are prominent in the consumption of the imported goods and which may have been developing centres of political and economic power ( Huggett forthcoming ) .
6 It remains unclear whether the types of vessel so commonly found in cremation cemeteries were also used domestically ; the evidence of the settlement of West Stow where stamped vessels of a type found in cremation cemeteries were present amongst other rubbish and which may have been made there , is ambiguous .
7 Mr has low back pain , sometimes with left sided sciatica , which he 's suffered from since the twenty second of June nineteen eighty eight and which may have been exacerbated by lifting the plaintiff .
8 3.5 The expression " the Centre " where the context so admits includes any additional and adjoining land and buildings in which during the Term the Landlord or a Group Company shall have acquired the freehold or leasehold interest and which shall have been so constructed or acquired to form [ an integral ] part of the Centre
9 When these accounts are compared with amounts which should have been received and which should have been paid ( as shown in the budget ) much vital information for a public sector organization is shown .
10 Such an " increment count and jump " instruction specifies an accumulator , index register , or store location whose contents are to be used as a loop counter ( and which will have been initialized by another instruction ) .
11 In certain cases , the accountants prepare the accounts of the company or business on predetermined bases or principles , which may be quite complex , and which will have been set out in the sale and purchase agreement .
12 Looking around Old Town Square , it is a remarkable survival for a capital which was rich in the 19C and which could have been rebuilt then .
13 This distinction between what would happen and what might happen is crucial for what follows .
14 Knowing what is available and what might help is a first step in the process of claiming and receiving such assistance .
15 Their lights picked out the graffiti of long-dead people — prayers , curses , obscenities , threats — and what might have been messages in alien script or in the calligraphy of madness .
16 I was filled with a dry sadness , a mixture of remembering and knowing ; remembering what was and what might have been and knowing it was all past ; at the same time knowing , or beginning to know , that other things were happily past — at least some of my illusions about myself , and then the syphilis , for there were no signs that it was going to come back .
17 Klima 's first loves have a way of not working out ; and what may have been his longest affair is the one about which least is said .
18 So if y there would be the cognitive demon which was the letter A and what would happen is , it would start looking at the features that were coming into the system and it would say , are they the ones associated with A ?
19 And what would have been my sickness .
20 Several readers have asked if the kick was correctly taken , and what would have been the decision if defending players not on the goal-line had prevented Brooke from scoring a try .
21 And what would have been the point ?
22 A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading .
23 And what should have been a piece of gaily irresponsible nonsense becomes impregnated with evil . ’
24 This is important if you are to learn whether you have achieved your objectives and what should have been handled differently .
25 And what should have been a doddle for Lord Waddington turned into a disaster .
26 It 's more the affair with a possible future that devastates — the emotional betrayal and the recognition that he gave part of himself and what should have been your time and your lives to another person . ’
27 And what will happen is that when you finish with your merit paper and you 're happy just leave it where it is .
28 If Donuel ( Domnall ) , father of Talorcan 's successors in the kingship of the Picts , first Gartnait and then Drest , could be securely identified as Domnall Brecc , formerly king of Dál Riata , Gartnait and Drest could perhaps be viewed as the beneficiaries of an alliance between the Scots and the northern Angles against the Picts ; but Donuel 's identification with Domnall Brecc is not certain , and what could have been a break in the succession of kings of the Picts occurred from 663 to 665/6 between the death of Gartnait and the accession of Drest .
29 He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another .
30 But ultimately it is lost in a quagmire of stylistic density and what could have been a startling book ends up feeling turgid .
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