Example sentences of "[indef pn] which [vb mod] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore , if it is at all possible , I should prefer nothing which would upset the group to emerge for another week . " |
| 2 | Leases and contracts have been entered into , but I have seen nothing which would prevent the regulation of operating hours . |
| 3 | In the drawing room , where they had drunk their pre-dinner sherry , Dalgliesh had a sense of a room which deliberately rejected the past , containing nothing which could violate the owner 's essential privacy ; no family history in photograph or portrait , no shabby heirlooms given room out of nostalgia , sentimentality or family piety , no antiques collected over the years . |
| 4 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 5 | For the first time ever , Athelstan had a piece of evidence , something that would fit , something which might unlock the rat of the secrets . |
| 6 | Permission to sell a commission or permission to purchase one was again something which might involve the intervention of a politician . |
| 7 | ‘ I show you something which could change the face of your world , ’ he said , ‘ but it does not impress you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I can prescribe something which will cure the chancre , ’ said the doctor . |
| 9 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |
| 10 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 11 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 12 | The University would prefer a truly discretionary system of salary awards , i.e. one which would give the University complete freedom to decide how to disburse the whole of the national settlement . |
| 13 | Rather , " however " creates a contrast concerning the idea of a writer foreseeing the effect on later audiences — something which pulls the essay in a different direction from one which might create the expectation that Othello would be introduced . |
| 14 | This may be true but presupposes that the law in question is the one which will govern the contract , whereas the reality is that for every contract governed by that law there will be another contract governed by a foreign law with which the party concerned may be unfamiliar , which is in a foreign language he does not understand , and which , when put to the test , may prove demonstrably inferior not only to his own law but to the proposed uniform law . |
| 15 | The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come . |
| 16 | Where the water is heated by pumped circulation operating in conjunction with a central heating system , the valve may be a three-way one which will divert the water either to the hot water cylinder or to the central heating radiators or , sometimes , to both see Chapter 11 . |
| 17 | it can represent a choice between a social psychology which seeks to uphold pure and applied distinctions and one which will abolish the distinction itself . |
| 18 | The local authority committee member tends to go in dread of anything which may scandalise the electorate , voluntary organisations look to the man in the street for approval and funding . |
| 19 | Landowners ca n't do exactly what they want for a start , and if they intend to do anything which might damage the site they have to inform the Nature Conservancy Council in writing and try to work out a compromise . |
| 20 | What will not be done , probably can not be done , is anything which will stop the snow , the rain , and a river equal to the Thames and the Severn combined trying to reclaim its natural course in time of flood . |
| 21 | In fact , thought Theodora , before either the police or the press find out anything which could harm the Church . |