Example sentences of "[pron] which [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be nothing which might be regarded as clandestine . |
| 2 | Stocker was at pains to say : ‘ We have nothing which could be tested on humans … nothing yet which can help Aids patients or people infected with the Aids virus or any other virus . ’ |
| 3 | He could see no definable head , nothing which could be stricken off even with doleful consequences . |
| 4 | They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government . |
| 5 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 6 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 7 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 8 | At first she and Ernest had been completely mystified , for how could some solicitors they had never met have any news for them which would be ‘ to their advantage ’ ? |
| 9 | They can be teamed up with an additional pair of short curtains hanging above them which would be drawn at night , thus giving a tiered effect . |
| 10 | It is corporate failures and the auditor 's role in them which should be of fundamental concern to professionals charged with protecting the public interest — not with their economic self-interest , which is a secondary issue in professionalised activity . |
| 11 | But they reaped no advantage ; there was nothing moving towards them which could be deemed to be a consideration , with the result that the case is one in which the contract is made , but remains unenforceable in law … . |
| 12 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 13 | Others possess cultures of phosphorescent bacteria in special organs with flaps of skin over them which can be moved to expose or conceal the bacteria in a series of winks and flashes . |
| 14 | Because occupants can not be trusted to conserve fuel , liberties of theirs which may be infringed against by centralisation of control are dismissible since they are liberties to do mischief . |
| 15 | Which which would be easier do you think ? |
| 16 | Well I I 'm in difficulty to help you chose which which would be the more appropriate . |
| 17 | I mean then , we 've then have what , two weeks to produce a leaflet which which should be quite easy to achieve . |
| 18 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 19 | This point is further elaborated by Romaine ( 1989 : 148 – 9 ) , who writes : " it is the switch itself which must be significant , rather than the accuracy of the representation of the reported speech with respect to its linguistic form " . |
| 20 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 21 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 22 | Now it is especially the occupation of Stalingrad itself which will be completed … |
| 23 | The first payment due to you which will be credited to your business bank account will be on week commencing the seventh of the February . |
| 24 | I think it helps if you can identify whether the the erm depression is just caused by erm the circumstances round about you which can be alleviated by changing them or if it 's caused by eating habits or erm or erm hormones or chemical imbalances in , I 've suffered , I think , from all them as well ! |
| 25 | Ticking off items on a mental list , Ashley decided that everything which might be needed for the weekend had been packed . |
| 26 | Domesticated horses , again like , people , can be conditioned to have other needs too , and can learn to like or want something which would be of no interest to a wild horse . |
| 27 | He wanted to write something which would be profoundly true and he would have liked to have corrected the image of Modigliani which developed very early on in a number of dubious publications . |
| 28 | Even so , Strange still sees the issue in macro terms — as something which would be responsive to a general alteration in policy . |
| 29 | It 's something which would be nice to have done . ’ |
| 30 | It seems to ignore the way in which existing fares are calculated' including as they do an element of ‘ taper ’ to avoid long journeys made up of several different sectors ‘ bolted together ’ from becoming too high : again something which would be difficult to replicate in a situation where the railways were operated by numerous regional franchises . |