Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 2 | The device ended on a sour note from the consumer standpoint in 1974 , however , when the dollar underwent an increase in value which ought to have triggered a price reduction but somehow failed to do so . |
| 3 | Well , Britain is the country which ought to have had the proletarian revolution before any other . |
| 4 | In order to avoid any bias resulting from the selection process ( originating from measurement errors which may tend to put shares which had positive discrepancies into the high beta portfolios and vice versa ) the return was calculated using the data from the sixth year following the beginning of the period in which the betas had been estimated and chosen . |
| 5 | Writing on ‘ The Fall of the Roman Empire and Its Lessons for Us ’ one author had already struck the easy notes of comparison in 1898 — the decline of the arts of soldiery and manliness , the financial oppression of the middle classes , subsidised food prices , bread and circuses ( that is , football ) and the recruitment of the barbarian ‘ lower races ’ into the imperial armies were all listed as forces ‘ which may tend to enervate and degrade us , to destroy our love of truth , to poison the fountains of family life ’ . |
| 6 | It is too much work : or , more precisely , too much time spent by too many people on work of a kind which contributes insufficiently to their fulfilment and which may tend to diminish their capacity for fulfilling themselves , too much soul-destroying toil or boredom . |
| 7 | It is the education officer 's job to inform the colleges of likely numbers for enrolments in the coming session and to ensure that students are suitably informed about enrolment procedures , which may mean holding a special meeting — perhaps at a college . |
| 8 | However , hydrogels do have some disadvantages including their low mechanical strength ( which may cause problems during manipulation for implantation ) and their relatively low refractive index , which may mean using thicker lenses to achieve a given optical power . |
| 9 | Second , the general results of audit have to be made available to managers so that they can take remedial action if necessary , which may mean initiating an independent audit . |
| 10 | We miss meals and replace them with snacks which may mean missing out on vital nutrients . |
| 11 | In more advanced bryozoans of the Mesozoic to Recent individual zooids have become specialized for particular functions — some have become totally modified to curious , snapping structures looking remarkably like miniaturized parrot heads , which may function to prevent the settling of larvae of unwanted alien organisms on the bryozoan colony . |
| 12 | I can for myself see no argument in favour of the privilege against producing a document the contents of which may go to show that the holder has committed a criminal offence . |
| 13 | The effect of the load is probably somewhat different from the variations of pressure set up by breaking waves , which may dislodge jointed blocks . |
| 14 | The experience of admission to hospital and the possibility of surgery will be different for each individual but it is possible to discuss some of the physical and psychological factors which may contribute to stress and the effects these may have on progress and recovery . |
| 15 | United , according to Gray , has a number in mothballs awaiting either revival or sale , and there are still independents which may decide to sell up . |
| 16 | It seems a faint hope that an administrative model which may involve setting unattainable standards based on competence-led performance indicators , inflexibility in eligibility criteria , and limitations on the use of self as a resource , can supply the incentives to provide or even to broker services in an improved way . |
| 17 | When the additional money is spent on training nurses , it is important that every effort be made to retain their services over a much longer period , which may involve making the terms and conditions more flexible for women returning to work . |
| 18 | Choosing the right inhibitor ( which may need to include anti-freeze ) and deciding on the correct procedure ( which may involve cleansing the system first ) is not always easy . |
| 19 | This saves the sometimes awkward task of fitting an offset in the bath waste ( which may involve running the pipe below the floorboards ) to ensure that it is not connected within 200mm of the WC soil pipe . |
| 20 | presents the student with the opportunity of displaying practical skills which may involve carrying out a specific task or procedure or the production of an artefact |
| 21 | In the analysis of all specific cases of agricultural technology , crucial aspects which may lead to soil erosion , can not be ‘ read off ’ in a vulgar materialist sense from the relations of production under which they are applied . |
| 22 | In practice leases are so tightly drawn it will be very rare indeed that anyone is in full and strict compliance with their leases and hence the acquirer will be more concerned about material non-compliance , which may lead to forfeiture of a lease . |
| 23 | in Hispanic Studies , both of which may lead to research for the Ph.D . |
| 24 | One of the issues that has to be addressed in the assessment is what balance is appropriate between the freedom of the sufferer to pursue his or her own life in his or her own way , and the possible result of that freedom which may lead to damage to themselves or others . |
| 25 | We may therefore conclude in relation to bargaining structures ( whether centralised or decentralised ) that although there are clearly forces making for change in all countries their extent should , perhaps , not be over-estimated — especially not those changes which may appear to produce convergent systems . |
| 26 | One other check which may avoid using your fingers and toes , is the bar passing through the operculum ( that 's the gill cover ! ) . |
| 27 | It is often the case that the plaintiff will have made a complaint or comment which may serve to corroborate their version of the accident later . |
| 28 | To include any such anticipatory provision has the merit of bringing home to the individual partners the importance of viewing their involvement in the firm as a long term commitment , which may serve to reduce , if not to eliminate , the pain felt if and when a cash call has to be made . |
| 29 | 3 To develop a standardised indicator of behavioural/social change which may serve to measure such change in other communities . |
| 30 | This is very important because the act of cutting usually has immediate effects on tension and is also likely to evoke responses from other people which may serve to strengthen the urge to cut . |