Example sentences of "which would [vb infin] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference agreed to adopt a set of compromise proposals which would involve a commitment by each donor country to increase its ODA to LDCs , but it refrained from setting an overall target in excess of the 0.15 per cent agreed upon in 1981 . |
| 2 | Will he also consider , as a provisional measure , initiating steps which would enable a magistrate or judge to supervise the interrogation of a defendant charged with a terrorist offence ? |
| 3 | Meyer 's analysis ( see figure 4.1 ) produces in diagram form a representation of the information in a passage organised into a hierarchy , which would enable a teacher systematically to examine comprehension and the effects of different types of text manipulation . |
| 4 | He said last night : ‘ Until now we have not had a real marker which would tell a cancer cell from a normal cell . ’ |
| 5 | I can not withdraw the amendment , which would set a date for the introduction of a further education funding council . |
| 6 | ( i ) if either party shall pass a resolution for winding up or the court shall make an order that either party shall be wound up ( in either case other than for the purpose of reconstruction ) or if a receiver or manager on behalf of a creditor be appointed , or if circumstances shall arise which would entitle a court or a creditor to appoint a receiver or manager or which would entitle a court to make a winding up order ; or |
| 7 | ( i ) if either party shall pass a resolution for winding up or the court shall make an order that either party shall be wound up ( in either case other than for the purpose of reconstruction ) or if a receiver or manager on behalf of a creditor be appointed , or if circumstances shall arise which would entitle a court or a creditor to appoint a receiver or manager or which would entitle a court to make a winding up order ; or |
| 8 | Their Lordships find it quite impossible to say that he was in error , and still less in the kind of error which would entitle a reviewing court to intervene , by making the choice which he did . |
| 9 | One of the main objectives of the negotiators was to devise a new system which would avoid a return to the economic conditions of the 1930s . |
| 10 | In the 1790s Britain was still primarily an agricultural country ; it still appears to be so in the novels of Jane Austen twenty years later , and , after all , even today one could choose a route from East Anglia to Cornwall which would give a foreigner this impression . |
| 11 | There was a magazine called Kine Weekly , which would give a showman 's award for the best stunt . |
| 12 | Within the hour the camera , the film and the physical chemistry became so clear that with a great sense of excitement I hurried to the place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure . |
| 13 | On capital spending we tended to concentrate on that spending which would show a return on the investment and if we could we 've postponed er , maintenance spending erm , renewal of cars and that kind of thing . |
| 14 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
| 15 | The degree of violence that must be proved is the same as that which would substantiate a charge of violent disorder or even riot . |
| 16 | The likelihood is that had the matter come before the courts in the nineteenth century , they would have held that the mistake had to be reasonable , for it was generally considered at that time that mistake was a defence which would excuse a defendant from liability only where it was based on reasonable grounds . |
| 17 | The Churchill Bill in 1986 included a list of proscribed depictions any one of which would attract a conviction for obscenity irrespective of context or effect on the viewer . |
| 18 | That statement was not , in my view , ever intended to acknowledge the existence of any wider discretion than to exclude ( 1 ) admissible evidence which would probably have a prejudicial influence upon the minds of the jury that would be out of proportion to its true evidential value ; and ( 2 ) evidence tantamount to a self-incriminatory admission which was obtained from the defendant , after the offence had been committed , by means which would justify a judge in excluding an actual confession which had the like self-incriminating effect . |
| 19 | Moreover any rights theory which would justify a right of conscientious war-tax diversion without addressing these inequalities would appear defective to many . |
| 20 | Mr Wilson commented on the BBC doing nothing which would do a disservice to Linfield Football Club , but I could say the same about Glenavon . |
| 21 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 22 | But this means a week of capital tied up , as well as weight loss , which would mean a rise in prices to compensate . |
| 23 | He had left some of his belongings behind , which would mean a return journey to go and collect them . |
| 24 | Perhaps the answer is to release the usually new B side song as the lead track ( which would mean a brand new single every time ) or to ban record companies from releasing four or more songs from an album at a time . |
| 25 | Eliot reiterated his view that , as between a Communist world and a world dominated by the Nazis ( which would mean a world dominated by Germany in the West and Japan in the East ) , the latter would be the more horrible immediately to contemplate . |
| 26 | It is possible to envisage a general data transfer instruction ( or set of instructions ) which would move a word , a portion of a word , or several words from a source to a destination ( either processor registers or store locations ) . |
| 27 | It was as Everett had feared — the Golden Share was being seen as a kind of sterilization pill which would prevent a takeover and a profitable union . |
| 28 | But , once converted , they needed to define their new identity : they had to create discontinuities which would draw a line between their Christian present and their pagan past . |
| 29 | Admittedly , this has been achieved , in part , by the kind of chicanery and double book-keeping which would earn a jail sentence for the treasurer-secretary of a small glue factory . |
| 30 | The government and the MNR agreed in principle to create a control commission comprising their own officials and representatives of the UN and other parties to be decided , which would supervise a peace agreement , once signed . |