Example sentences of "something [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 2 | It would be advisable to build in at the planning stage something which would create a need for co-operation on the new planet . |
| 3 | Proper heading , quality logo paper , hook , statistics , something which would lead into the thing , more friendly language , it was very bureaucratic , was n't it , in a sense ? |
| 4 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 5 | It was as if he has caught an infection which was moving around all men but as yet lighting on few , something which would grow to cause fever where there had been force . |
| 6 | There is something in that actually charging a percent it gives you an option that you could do something which would mean that the option was n't cancelled . |
| 7 | They agreed to assist and aid financially the socioeconomic development of French overseas territories , to align social legislation on holidays and equal pay with that of France ( something which would raise production costs in all five countries ) , to allow France to retain its system of export subsidies and import taxes until it could acquire financial equilibrium . |
| 8 | Then came the thought that Mrs Maybury had something vital to tell her , something which would help her to find Elaine — or Lilian ; it was difficult not to think of her as Elaine . |
| 9 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 10 | Their relevance to Worcester itself , and to the Worcestershire towns of the 1980s was something which would have to be learned from experience . |
| 11 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 12 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 13 | The Swiss crew was stroked by Jeremy West , the French crew included East German veteran Rudi Helm , the USSR/Italian team included masters Schaparenko and Tichenko and there was a USSR/Israeli crew , something which would have been unthinkable a short time before . |
| 14 | It was something that had to be done at the same time as teaching , and was seen more , I suppose , as a chore rather than as something which would have any sort of positive spin-off for us . |
| 15 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 16 | Like the first type , it always implies incidence to an actualizer of the infinitive event , someone or something which would have been explicitly expressed as the subject had the verb been finite . |
| 17 | The leading central banks are expected to redouble their efforts to push down the dollar once the German decision is announced — something which may ease pressure on the pound if it changes the focus of attention in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 18 | That is one of the things that writing does : it entices the reader into an ‘ unreal ’ world , a world ‘ really ’ only composed of funny marks on a page , and through those marks makes the reader consider something which may form no part of normal life . |
| 19 | The future of the two alliances is in the balance , and the Soviet side is already eager to restructure the Warsaw Pact into something which may look more like the Commonwealth than the Moscow-dominated monolith of the still recent past . |
| 20 | Something which may help here is to try visualising the helicopter as being on the lower end of a pendulum with the transmitter controls moving the top of the pendulum . |
| 21 | I have something which may help you . |
| 22 | There is nonetheless in this mixture of internal and external anxieties something which may bode trouble . |
| 23 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 24 | ‘ However , I can tell you something which may have a bearing on your stubbornness . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ After all , ’ she thought , ‘ why say something which might upset Hans ? ’ |
| 26 | Not that he was now smitten with Moray 's sister in any serious fashion , he could assure himself ; but he had been much impressed by her at Doune that time , her looks , her manner and behaviour , her quiet competence — and probably the fact that the young Steward was so evidently captivated , something which might hold its own challenge . |
| 27 | For the first time ever , Athelstan had a piece of evidence , something that would fit , something which might unlock the rat of the secrets . |
| 28 | Permission to sell a commission or permission to purchase one was again something which might involve the intervention of a politician . |
| 29 | This is not to say that such courses would not also encourage an awareness of wider theoretical implications or the kind of appraisal I have associated with education , but this would be more in the manner of a long-term investment rather than something expected to yield immediate returns , something which might influence attitude rather than instigate action . |
| 30 | Dr Robert Bradnock of the School of Oriental and African Studies in London said : ‘ Although the older generation strongly feel the pull of the old countries , I think they will put a lot of pressure on the young people to try and stop them rushing off and doing something which might escalate out of control . ’ |