Example sentences of "[prep] which [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she began to think to herself about which would be best , nasturtiums or sweet peas . |
| 2 | There had been doubts about which would break first , Christmas or booksellers ' spirits . |
| 3 | Does n't listen to a word I say , like , the women 's no good cos I told some things about which would really made yet more of his hair fall of the top of his bald head , I said I said look , a working women needs a working man to help support herself and her children , I said , er no , nobody is going to be able these days , a woman not going to be able to support herself on twenty hours a week , which is what Karen does , putting out bread in the Asda . |
| 4 | The global system is most fruitfully conceptualized as a system that operates at three levels , knowledge about which can be organized in three spheres , namely the economic , the political and the cultural-ideological . |
| 5 | Sometimes there will be two candidates who are fairly evenly matched and there may be uncertainty about which should be appointed . |
| 6 | Cos there 's millions and millions of pounds that the revenue have got rushing about which should have been repaid to er investors . |
| 7 | Clearly , the largest surfaces to be covered in any room are the walls and the floor , and there are invariably two schools of thought about which should have preference in the budget . |
| 8 | Answer guide : The answer below is based on both an absorption costing approach and a marginal costing approach although the question is deliberately not explicit about which should be used . |
| 9 | ‘ Our staffing levels constrain the time off which can be allowed ’ … |
| 10 | He conceived of mind and matter as two substances , the relation between which can only be a causal one . |
| 11 | There are other ways of getting non-controversial private members ' bills through which may be looked at , including the Scottish Grand Committee . |
| 12 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 13 | Nothing had to get through which could be used by his enemies . |
| 14 | Directly above this the courtyard roof had a large pentagonal opening through which could be seen the stars , hanging above them in the heavens . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 16 | The delegates supported a motion to create a co-operative bank network , the capital for which would come from part of the government subsidies to farmers for 1992 of 6,500 million roubles . |
| 17 | Control to rest with the officer commanding L Detachment and not with any outside body superimposed for the purpose of coordination , the need for which will not arise should effect be given to the present proposals … . |
| 18 | It will give her something of her own to love and care for which will return her love , and help to reduce any feelings she may have of being ‘ odd man out ’ in the home . |
| 19 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 20 | A letter writing task , the stimulus for which will be an incoming letter and data needed to reply to it . |
| 21 | The composition of a letter , the stimulus for which will be an incoming letter , or the employer 's instructions , or both . |
| 22 | The buy-out vehicle , usually a new company which the managers form for the purpose ( " Newco " ) , will therefore often have a fairly complex share and loan capital structure , the reason for which will in part be tax driven . |
| 23 | The " Sunday Times " went to the extreme of publishing a " dummy " first edition to mislead the authorities on the night it broke the " spycatcher " revelations in Britain , but such devices are unavailable to television and radio programmes , the advance publicity for which will generally put the Attorney-General 's office on notice of a potentially embarrassing " leak " . |
| 24 | After defeats against Italy , Ireland and France , the Scots have made sweeping changes for their final encounter , prospects for which will revolve around the amount of ball they can supply for a back division sure to be enlivened by the presence of will-o-the-wisp stand-off , Derrick Lee . |
| 25 | Ingres hopes to be early with SQL92 , the specifications for which should be settled finally next month , and is also working with Microsoft Corp and the SQL Access Group on Open Database Connectivity ( ODBC ) compliance . |
| 26 | Suppose it can secure either an x per cent price reduction or an x per cent cost reduction at equal cost to itself ; for which should it aim ? |
| 27 | Courses are at present being run in London ( usually at Quintin School ) , the South West ( either at Dartmouth or Weston-Super-Mare ) , the North West ( Cheadle ) and in Edinburgh , Norfolk also run further training sessions ( details for which should be obtained from the Norfolk trainers ) . |
| 28 | Intelligence reports had indicated that such a reactor , the plans and equipment for which could have been supplied by China in 1990 [ see p. 38548 ] , had been built in the northern mountains . |
| 29 | There is an optional excursion to Abu Simbel , reservations for which must be made at the time of booking your holiday . |
| 30 | He hurried back to the Limousin and completed a piece of business , negotiations for which must already have been in train . |