Example sentences of "something which [vb mod] [adv] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book has been written from the US Army 's court-martial records , something which would not have been possible in this country , where such records are closed to the public for 100 years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The to infinitive thus evokes the occurrence of an event as contingent , as something which might not have happened and which in fact was not expected to happen : the closest paraphrase is " that he should find himself alone " . |
| 6 | This impression of " specialness " , of contingency , of the event 's occurrence being something which could not have been taken for granted , disappears in the sentence with -ing . |