Example sentences of "and which [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , the only regular ‘ supporter ’ was Kitty Little , a long-standing pro-nuclear activist whose persistent promotion of the fast breeder reactor was matched only by her equally persistent belief that the British anti-nuclear campaign was part of an international plot incorporating the Rothschilds and President Carter and which would eventually lead to the imposition of an ‘ atheist Marxist-Leninist dictatorship ’ . |
| 2 | To firm up their security against subsequent security interests created by the company and which would otherwise have priority , floating charges almost invariably contain a provision that restricts the right of the company to create charges that have priority to or rank equally with the floating charge ( called a negative pledge clause ) . |
| 3 | 45760 : A voracious Beethoven Fifth , with an element of aggression that comes entirely from within and which would probably be absurd if anyone tried to re-create it . |
| 4 | The Empire which would be bound together by reciprocal preferences , freely accorded , and which would thence ascend , perchance , to the unity of common counsels and common institutions , was an Empire of independent ‘ kith and kin ’ — ‘ the conception of the people of these islands as a great family bound by indissoluble ties to kindred families in other parts of the world ’ ( Milner ) . |
| 5 | However , the move was seen as one which would boost Ford 's market share and which would also provide the company with a prestigious marque with a sporty image . |
| 6 | It would be an exciting and worthwhile challenge , for instance , to set up a centre for medicine with Urdu or French where professionals could receive additional training and which would also could become the focus for expertise and research in that area . |
| 7 | It also enabled moderate Republicans to avoid an open break with Bush on the issue , and saved the Democrats from a potentially damaging veto battle which they seemed one vote short of winning and which would again have highlighted for white voters the identification of Democrats with minority issues . |
| 8 | At 200 metres you could be reasonably sure of a killing hit , or , if not , a wound which would cripple and which would therefore require the services of another man to look after the wounded soldier . |
| 9 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |
| 10 | Will he remind any business man foolish enough to think that a Labour Government would be better for business of the myriad proposals which would prove the truth to be quite the opposite , which would make life far more difficult and which would especially energise union militancy which is at the bottom of some of the proposals ? |
| 11 | Since royalties are usually subject to withholding taxes , and payments to related parties in tax havens are generally suspect , the normal structure for most of the 1980s was to use a Dutch company which would hold a head licence from a Netherlands Antilles company holding the intangible , and which would then sublicense the operating companies . |
| 12 | Then it was said that we needed a dedicated rail route , which would pass through Kent , and which would obviously affect the prospects of some Conservative Members in marginal constituencies . |
| 13 | The downside , as far as concerns book publishing in general , is that the lower-grade extended-caption tie-ins hog the limelight and drive out ‘ real ’ books which might otherwise be given more shelf space , and which would almost certainly be of far greater merit in themselves . |
| 14 | A friend of mine Dave who wrote half the album with me and produced the album has been on at me for five years , come on let's make an album , let's make an album , let's make an album , making a , let's make an album er and a few record companies have come on and they 've always wanted me to do an album like maybe , let's prepackage old sixties ' songs and revise them , or let's do love themes from T V shows and which would never have interested me , so I said to Dave , you know when a record company comes with an offer to make an album , to do the album I wan na do then we 'll do one . |
| 15 | There was one hope which Rosen kept to himself and which would only come to light when Kennedy responded . |
| 16 | Another aspect of the policies that Labour is pledged to implement and which would only increase the damaging effects of unemployment is the imposition of high taxes . |
| 17 | The initiating member should offer an incentive to all Network members to encourage the submission of original prospective purchaser suggestions , in the form of a success fee equal to , for instance , 10% of the total estimated engagement fee and which would only be payable to a Network member 's firm if the following conditions are satisfied : |
| 18 | It therefore seems probable that what the early personality studies of living creative subjects had revealed was their tendency to the schizoidness of which Bleuler writes , and which would now be referred to as ‘ schizotypy ’ . |
| 19 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |
| 20 | Given that the majority was aligned on grounds which had nothing to do with policy , it was difficult for strangers to vote so publicly and at the same time to hold aloof from an alignment in which they had no personal interest , and which might even have damaged their commercial interests . |
| 21 | It was agreed that systematic use should be made of the words ‘ safety ’ , ‘ security ’ ( a word Labour was believed to be fond of and which might therefore be turned to advantage ) , and ‘ support ’ . |
| 22 | But their significance also needs to be grasped with respect to the operations of splitting , desire , fantasy , pleasure and paranoia which are deeply implicated in racist discourses , and which may inherently produce dualities and ambivalences in racialized encounters between selves and others . |
| 23 | But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time . |
| 24 | Here we are concerned with the basic principles , on which all else depends and which may eventually be applied to longer movements as well as to short sections . |
| 25 | And when we examine those repetitive media messages , we find amongst them those which dull , which desensitise , and which may ultimately disinhibit by eroding the internalised constraints which are part and parcel of the civilising process , constraints we used to learn at our mother 's knee , and which we discard at our peril . |
| 26 | It turns out that there is no single mythical ‘ UFO phenomenon ’ ; instead there is a collection of phenomena that are probably independent and which may well require several different mechanisms to explain them all . |
| 27 | Little mention has been made so far of those elements of material forms which relate to each other in an ordered fashion , and which may thereby influence the manner in which they are utilized in constituting cultural patterns or acting as systems of meaning . |
| 28 | These opium-induced trances may have produced states of awareness and revelation which explain some of the fantastic imagery of Minoan religious art , and which may even go some way towards explaining the extraordinary architectural achievements of the temple-builders . |
| 29 | Or does practice provide a constant flow of real-life problems and approaches which helps to set the agenda for curricula and research , and which may even run ahead of theory ? |
| 30 | The idea of basic sexual instincts , which are present from birth and which may also be unconscious , was retained in all Freud 's theories . |