Example sentences of "which could [vb infin] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instinctively they fear the strength of the emotional ties with their mother , which could prevent them from becoming mature and independent men . |
| 2 | Reporting restrictions were not lifted and the magistrates made an order preventing publication of the boys ' names or anything which could identify them . |
| 3 | The militants are split between degrees of intransigence , which could make them vulnerable at the polls . |
| 4 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 5 | The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits . |
| 6 | It was broadly the premise of those movements that science and technology were evil , totalitarian and devoid of the attributes which could make them amenable to the " human spirit " . |
| 7 | Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday . |
| 8 | Yeremi recognized plasma cannons , macro-cannons , defence lasers — artillery which could melt fully armoured Marines , which could blow them away in scraps like chaff . |
| 9 | She suggested they would do better if they only sat five exams and spent the rest of their time on work which could give them a much broader education than just swotting for more GCSEs . |
| 10 | Only 130,000 of 700,000 eligible disabled people in Britain use their mobility allowance to run a vehicle which could give them a new life through personal transport . |
| 11 | They could n't get back to the bank without treading on shifting , clutching , cloying marsh , which could trap them and draw them right down ; and if they stayed in the car , sooner or later they would go under with it . |
| 12 | The Welsh FA have signed a sponsorship deal with Welsh Brewers Ltd which could net them more than £100,000 over the next three years . |
| 13 | ‘ So they are bitter about proposals which could leave them without a future . |
| 14 | These higher-order shaikhs had no power to intervene in the affairs of component lineages , although again , as senior and widely connected men , they had other roles which could entitle them to express an opinion . |
| 15 | Pupils ' general knowledge about sizes of units and the relationships among them which could assist them to get a " feel " for numbers and help them decide whether measurements were reasonable , was lacking . |
| 16 | Loanable funds were not in total short supply , but the same growing and diversifying economy which could provide them also created competition from private borrowers and investors . |
| 17 | It has polarised popular opinion such that sick people tend to use only conventional medicine or complementary medicine , thus failing to reap the benefits of knowledge which could help them . |
| 18 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 19 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 20 | He said Russian planes were not carrying ‘ air-to-surface ’ missiles or bombs , which could allow them to attack targets on the ground . |
| 21 | The thieves were kept under control because the organizers had evidence which could get them convicted . |
| 22 | A LEADING independent accountant has warned funeral directors against misleading claims encouraging them to take advantage of a tax loophole which could see them reclaiming up to 7,200 per year in VAT . |
| 23 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |