Example sentences of "which it would [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In narrower military terms , the Sandys ’ Reformation , without which it would not have been possible to contemplate ending National Service , was already seen in Whitehall as premature , if not wholly mistaken . |
| 2 | The European Court has stated that the concept of abuse is to be assessed by determining whether an undertaking in a dominant position ‘ has made use of the opportunities arising out of its dominant position in such a way as to reap trading benefits which it would not have reaped if there had been normal and sufficiently effective competition ’ . |
| 3 | I packed my things , and as I was manoeuvring the car I reversed it into a ditch from which it would not shift . |
| 4 | It declared that it understood the scope of the Letters of Request which it would not execute as including Letters of Request which require a person |
| 5 | Which it would not if the trees and the hedge were not there . |
| 6 | It gave the Bank additional power by creating a board of banking supervision ; by making the provision of misleading information to this board a criminal offence ; by taking powers to consult with the auditors and accountants of individual banks ; by defining the circumstances in which it would not consider an individual a ‘ fit and proper person ’ to run a bank ; and by taking powers to limit individual shareholding in a bank . |
| 7 | The letter stated : ’ The present de minimis figure of £100,000 reflects our judgment as to the point at which it would not be right to oblige an authority to comply with the accounting and reporting requirements of competitive tendering . ’ |
| 8 | It appears from what I can see there , that the density in there would be too high , which it would not if it were sheltered . |
| 9 | Notice how this is beautifully covered with my fingerprints now which it would n't be if I was handling it properly . |
| 10 | We do n't yet know what these are , but for reasons which it would n't be proper for me to go into we believe that we may know more about them in about a week . |
| 11 | If it worked , which it would n't , I would n't want it that way . |
| 12 | Even if the law allowed it — which it would n't — he could n't leave Zoe bereft of everything except ornaments and pictures . |
| 13 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 14 | The test questions should be what experienced teachers would be likely to ask , taking account of the character of the reading material , its context and the purposes for which it would normally be encountered . |
| 15 | Note that the inflection occurring with the transposed lexical item has remained in its grammatically correct position , rather than moving with the base item to which it would normally have been attached . |
| 16 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 17 | And it may well fit the budget of the bread manufacturer , who could have other lines of market research enquiry which it would also like to pursue , for which funding must also be made available . |
| 18 | Even if there was personal participation by all the citizens in the making of decisions and policies , the only situation in which it would even appear to be clear what was the will of the people would be a unanimous decision . |
| 19 | Just as the higher law of life stops an apple held in my hand from obeying the law of gravity to which it would otherwise be subject , so the law ( as he daringly calls it ) of the Spirit overcomes the sin death principle to which the Christian would otherwise be subject . |
| 20 | Either the landlord or the tenant may be entitled to determine a term certain at a date earlier than that on which it would otherwise expire by effluxion of time . |
| 21 | One of them is the law of return ; another is diversification — as against any kind of monoculture ; another is decentralisation , so that some use can be found for even quite inferior resources which it would never be rational to transport over long distances . |
| 22 | A world was coming in which it would almost certainly never again be possible to walk quietly , as Frederica and Alexander walked , through the village where Van Gogh tramped and set up his easel in the clean dust . |
| 23 | The college has not yet applied for an English Heritage grant , for which it would certainly be eligible . |
| 24 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 25 | At the conclusion of the hearing the Board intimated that it would humbly advise Her Majesty that the appeal should be dismissed , for reasons which it would subsequently deliver . |
| 26 | I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life . |
| 27 | A central question in the present case is whether it is open to your Lordships ' House to follow their judicial brethren overseas down the road of development of the law ; and , if so , whether it would be appropriate to do so , and which is the precise path which it would then be appropriate to choose . |
| 28 | Supposing the union fell to pieces , these were the fracture lines along which it would naturally break . |