Example sentences of "of [Wh det] could [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine out of 10 are routine calls , many of which could be carried out by mini cabs . |
| 2 | There was a heap of rough geological specimens , including two almost spherical stones , a little like cannon balls , one black and one a sulphurous yellow , some ammonites and trilobites , a large crystal ball , a green glass inkwell , the articulated skeleton of a cat , a heap of books , two of which could be seen to be the Divina Commedia and Faust , and an hourglass in a wooden frame . |
| 3 | Both had wash-basins , one of which could be changed to a kitchen sink . |
| 4 | BM says that behaviour is influenced by two powerful forces , both of which could be modified by you in some situations . |
| 5 | We are happy to find that there is to be no repetition of the Buckingham House measures — beginning a vast edifice without money and without a definite plan , the upshot of which could be nothing but bungling . |
| 6 | The matter is complicated by the fact that across the social spectrum some families changed their surnames as often as their surcoats , and individuals had , in the course of their lives , sometimes as many as three or four surnames , any of which could be adopted quite haphazardly by their progeny . |
| 7 | tried to inaugurate a new concept of citizenship which would link men of different social classes , The concept was based upon the notion that there was a good common to members of all classes , a goal the existence of which could be established from German Idealist metaphysics and which could be made visible in actual measures of educational reform and social welfare . |
| 8 | Within the Sheffield proposal and Training Agency requirements , a high profile was given to the development of Careers Education and Guidance , Work-Experience , industry visits and work shadowing , all of which could be provided through a partnership . |
| 9 | At first , the playing time for both discs and cylinders was the same — about two minutes — but the fact that discs could be made in different sizes , all of which could be played on the same machine , was another advantage . |
| 10 | But in three short years the following essential features of creative sound were worked out for the first time : cut-and-splice sound editing ; dubbing mute shots ( i.e. providing library sounds for completely silent bits of film ) ; quiet cameras ; ‘ talkback ’ and other intercom systems ; ‘ boom ’ microphones ( so the mike could be placed over the actor 's head and moved as necessary ) ; equalization ; track-bouncing ; replacement of dialogue ( including alternative languages ) ; filtering ( for removing traffic noise , wind noise , or for simulating telephone conversations ) ; busbars for routing controlled amounts of foldback or reverberation ; three-track recording ( music , effects , and dialogue , any of which could be changed as necessary ) ; automatic volume limiters ; and synchronous playback ( for dance or mimed shots ) . |
| 11 | A special box was used , on to the lid of which could be flashed a variety of patterns whenever a bird approached it . |
| 12 | Up to one tenth of our domestic waste is glass , all of which could be recycled without any deterioration in quality . |
| 13 | Discussion or exposure drafts are also planned on mergers and acquisitions , acquisition accounting ( an effect of which could be to reduce the amount of goodwill shown in acquisitions ) and related party transactions . |
| 14 | A decision is a choice between alternative courses of action ( one of which could be to do nothing ) . |
| 15 | THE EC would almost certainly respond to any US tariff rise with duty increases of its own , the cost of which could be passed on to British consumers . |
| 16 | In the background all this time was the knowledge on both sides of the Atlantic that one or two airlines had adopted anonymous reporting systems which had brought to light the most important and hair-raising incidents , some of which could be eliminated without difficulty by altering certain operating practices . |
| 17 | It has been suggested ( Knuth 1969 , pp. 199–201 ) that testing for floating.point zero is not appropriate , and that a more suitable test would be for any value in a small range about zero , the size of which could be set by the programmer . |
| 18 | Wilkes and Stringer ( 1953 ) suggested the provision of several control stores , one of which could be plugged into the basic hardware to create a particular architecture . |
| 19 | There are two overriding questions relating to the feasibility of such tests , both leading to a host of technical and organizational questions , only some of which could be adequately tackled in this project . |
| 20 | You should keep a photograph and description of each rug on record , copies of which could be lodged with your bank or solicitor as an extra precaution . |
| 21 | One result of this has been the pervasive influence of linguistic methodology upon such studies of objects as have developed in recent decades ; and while the rise of semiotics in the 1960s was advantages in that it provided for the extension of linguistic research into other domains , any of which could be treated as a semiotic system ( e.g. Eco 1976 : 9–14 ) , this extension took place at the expense of subordinating the object qualities of things to their word-like properties . |
| 22 | In each of the early civilizations the emphasis rested on opaque or translucent stones , in China on jade , but elsewhere on different forms of chalcedony , lapis lazuli and turquoise , the qualities of each of which could be displayed effectively by the simple process of polishing their surfaces smooth . |
| 23 | The fourth item in table 9.7 shows the five Authorities identified as having the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme , which includes multiple criteria and identifies four mutually exclusive groups of housing areas associated with particular deprivation , each of which could be treated separately in the allocation of resources : poor terraced housing , the poorest Local Authority housing , areas with a high concentration of multiple — occupancy and of people of Asian origin , and areas with a high concentration of multi-let property with a significant proportion of people of Afro-Caribbean origin . |
| 24 | This effect can not merely be explained by a conceivable depletion of TBP , because transcription of the classical pol III genes requires only a very low amount of TBP ( 6 ; and our own unpublished results ) , the presence of which could be verified by western-blot analysis of hTFIIIB and hTFIIIC containing fractions used for the assay ( our unpublished results ) . |
| 25 | It is to these triumphs , some of which could be made intelligible to laymen while others remained obscure , that we shall now turn , looking first at the discoveries rather than at their reception outside the scientific community . |
| 26 | Its practicability was also sometimes alleged to be proved by the existence of the Holy Roman Empire or the Swiss cantons , both of which could be considered as types of loose federation . |
| 27 | In addition to these cuts , a moratorium was placed on the spending of certain funds , in the Administration , Finance and House budgets , the expenditure of which could be delayed until the income situation had clarified . |
| 28 | However , there are 26,000 empty council houses , a considerable portion of which could be brought back into use . |
| 29 | Will my hon. Friend emphasise that Labour 's only policy on air pollution is to abolish nuclear power and replace it with coal-fired power — the net consequence of which could be only a massive increase in global warming ? |
| 30 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |