Example sentences of "[adj] which could " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 2 | There are also a lot of things that could go wrong which could prolong your stay . |
| 3 | Among the situational factors influencing variation , it is possible to pick out some which could be described as stylistic , and many linguists have attempted to produce frameworks for the analysis of style in language . |
| 4 | Take , for instance , the idea of a Self 2 which could instinctively teach itself to windsurf like riding a bike . |
| 5 | At Chilgrove 1 , the coin series ends with Magnentius , and Alec Down , the excavator , suggests an amalgamation with Chilgrove 2 which could represent the kind of reorganization to be expected . |
| 6 | … the primal father had prevented his sons from satisfying their directly sexual impulsions ; he forced them into abstinence and consequently into emotional ties with him and with one another which could arise out of those of their impulsions that were inhibited in their sexual aim … . |
| 7 | Another which could be used , if you want a longer stretch of time for the recording , is the Synchrofax Audio Page ( see Appendix 2 ) . |
| 8 | The first step was to check the cost of the in-house services against that which could be provided by private contractors . |
| 9 | Platelet aggregation induced by endoperoxides appeared to be greater than that which could be accounted for by the endoperoxides alone , and Hamberg et al ( 1975 ) were able to demonstrate that in platelets endoperoxides are further metabolised to a very unstable compound , thromboxane A 2 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , I knew that I needed something far beyond that which could be offered by the NHS . |
| 11 | It is to be hoped that in the course of time the word ‘ fear ’ used in the context of the foregoing will be abandoned in favour of the word ‘ foreboding ’ , for the conscience , once properly developed should give warning rather than frighten , and therefore enable the individual to avoid that which could give rise to real fear . |
| 12 | Leather goods , desk accessories , smoking accessories , tableware , the little playthings of the conspicuously affluent — Edouard knew that these , adorned with the de Chavigny name and crest , could be marketed for high prices and to a much wider market than that which could afford the most superlative jewellery in the world . |
| 13 | The fieldwork data basically fell into three categories : that which I felt could definitely be published , that which could definitely not be published , and that which I was unsure about . |
| 14 | Another interesting feature of exchanges of this type is that , under certain conditions , money could be used to fulfil one part of the bargain , i.e. if practical services were being offered in only one direction , or if those services went beyond that which could be contained in normal , on-going reciprocal exchange . |
| 15 | Harry 's expression softened and Nicholas was jealous of that which could have such an affecting influence on him . |
| 16 | Good taste became associated with the expression of distance from the world of work , the practical or the natural world , and was termed ‘ refined ’ or ‘ cultivated ’ , being dissociated from that which could be regarded as ‘ cheap ’ ( 1970 : 112 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Development ’ is also defined as meaning ‘ physical , intellectual , emotional , social or behavioural development ’ and , where the question whether harm suffered by a child is significant turns on the child 's health or development , his health or development shall be compared with that which could reasonably be expected from a similar child . |
| 18 | What was decided in regard to the applicant Handscomb was that where the first review date predicated an equivalent determinate sentence well in excess of that which could have been imposed under established sentencing practice , there was impugnable unreasonableness . |
| 19 | The sample of 120 households was therefore divided into three matched lists of 40 addresses , A , B and C. Each provided a coverage of the major social and ethnic variations in residential pattern similar to that which could be found in the original list of 120 . |
| 20 | Advisers had in many cases given guarantees that the only information that they would use in the final report would be that which could be used in a public document . |
| 21 | Because this study was designed to facilitate the interpretation of recognition results a fundamental distinction was made between information which would be shared by all exemplars of a particular junction ( fixed information ) and that which could potentially differ between exemplars ( variable information ) , the assumption was that the fixed information would be relatively unimportant to recognition performance . |
| 22 | This technique may be used when the Bank is keen to produce a change in interest rates faster than that which could be obtained by waiting for bill offers to respond to an initial rejection of bids by the Bank : it was used more frequently in 1988 and 1989 , especially as a method of signalling the Bank 's desire to see higher short term interest rates . |
| 23 | This will usually favour the firm which seeks injunctive relief , since the damage which might result from failing to restrain a former partner is almost bound to exceed that which could be caused by holding the latter to his covenants . |
| 24 | The scale of price rises is quite out of line with that which could plausibly be required to balance ‘ real ’ supply and demand ; and quite out of line with previous responses to fluctuations in industrial production . |
| 25 | This reflected a very negative and ageist view that there was little which could be done to improve the health of older people . |
| 26 | It seemed there was little which could tempt dealers to buy . |
| 27 | Lord Callaghan , the former Labour prime minister , called for an all-European conference through a revival of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Helsinki in 1973-1977 which could mark the beginning of what he called ‘ a new Concert of Europe ’ setting a new political framework . |
| 28 | Lord Ross said that the sheriff had failed to attach proper importance to the fact that an allegation of murder was one of the most serious which could ever be made against any individual . |
| 29 | In summing up we may say : something has been made visible which could not have been perceived without the effort to make it visible . |
| 30 | In Garland v British Rail Engineering Ltd their Lordships had to consider a provision of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 which could be interpreted either in accordance with or contrary to Article 119 of the EEC Treaty . |