Example sentences of "[coord] which [modal v] [be] " in BNC.

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1 The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency .
2 Section 1 covers all forms of spying making it an offence if any person , for purposes prejudicial to the interests of the state : ( a ) approaches , inspects … enters any prohibited place ; or ( b ) makes any sketch , plan , model or note which … might be useful to the enemy : or ( c ) obtains or communicates to any other person any information … calculated or intended to be , or which might be useful to the enemy .
3 Turning to the use of fuels for IC vehicles which do not use up vital oil reserves or which may be used when oil is no longer available , the use of hydrogen has been suggested as one of the answers to future transport fuel needs .
4 Rachaela tried to give Ruth what she had had with Emma , things she liked or which would be good for her : sausages and chips , chicken and broccoli , real carrots , grilled fish with cheese and baked beans .
5 But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new .
6 Secure ground floor windows first and any window which ca n't be seen from the street or which can be reached from a drainpipe or flat roof .
7 Information can be gathered by means of a questionnaire which new adherents are either invited to fill in themselves , or which can be completed in an interview by one of the church leaders .
8 Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) .
9 These take the curriculum and re-present it in ‘ bite-sized pieces ’ , usually in courses of between 20 and 30 hours , which may be put together for an award like GCSE or which can be taken as free-standing units .
10 When the champion hurdler , Beech Road , and Morley Street won at Cheltenham ten days ago it was hard to say which put up the better performance and which would be the stable 's first choice for the Champion Hurdle should both be trained for the race .
11 It proposes setting up a sort of Federal Reserve system of central banks in which all 15 republics would be represented — and which would be told not to lend to the government .
12 Accepting that a group of countries should proceed to a political or monetary union would be to accept the creation of a Greater European Superstate on the continent of Europe over which the non participants would have minimal control and which would be dominated by Germany .
13 Without the authority to initiate change , more harm than good would be done by reforms which may get stuck half-way , and which would be resented by heads and teachers in all the schools .
14 For example , in 1988 the Secretary of State for Wales , Peter Walker , announced a £500 million revitalization programme for the valleys of South Wales , which would involve land reclamation , business advice and support , factory construction , housing rehabilitation and infrastructural investment , and which would be implemented by local authorities , the private sector , central government and the Welsh Development Agency .
15 Political correspondence can be a vital source for political history , but for specifically sociological purposes there are likely to be few types of correspondence these days which would be easily available and which would be of value for social research .
16 Suggest one type of shop which is missing and which would be of value to young people in your area .
17 Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office .
18 The Divisional Court in that case distinguished between the obtaining of evidence for use in a trial , ‘ direct ’ material , which constituted ‘ testimony ’ under that Act and which would be gathered in response to a Letter of Request , and the obtaining of ‘ indirect ’ material , which might lead to a line of enquiry pointing to actual evidence ; the English courts would not assist a foreign court to obtain such ‘ indirect ’ material .
19 Gentlemen that these voyages will not now be subject to tax as a result of the withdrawal of subsection ( 4 ) , apart from the nominal charge for food which is normally made and which would be assessable .
20 the replacement of domestic rates by a community charge which each authority would set and which would be paid by every adult ( not just householders ) resident in its area .
21 After he became a Communist , Neruda consciously tried to write a different kind of poetry incorporating a political message and which would be comprehensible to working people , the most famous and successful example of which is his Canto General .
22 Instead , it preferred the creation of a national body for public sector higher education along the lines of the University Grants Committee which would directly control the polytechnics and colleges and which would be made up of nominees of the Secretary of State .
23 List the sorts of information about a planet that could be obtained by radar and which would be difficult to obtain by other means .
24 The second would be that arts teachers would not benefit from the experience their fellow teachers were gaining in curriculum building and which would be useful to practices in the arts .
25 Items which are purchased with the vessel and which would be sold with it , are normally to be considered as part of the hull and machinery and will be covered even if not specifically declared on the proposal .
26 He was still distressed , however , by the prolific trade in mutton bird feathers , two-and-a-half tons of which could be taken in a season — the produce of roughly 112,000 birds — and which would be sold for about 6d per pound in Launceston .
27 His terms of reference were to design a building based on the Cathedral of the Dormition in Vladimir and which would be structurally sound .
28 He came , towards the end of the nineties , to believe that there are erm there must be things which are in the strictest possible sense non-mental , and which would be what they were , even if there had never been any minds that were conscious of them .
29 There is a passage in Mr Palomar which plays on the dialectic between speech ( or communicative language ) and silence and which might be taken to foreshadow the structure of the book as a whole .
30 The decentralized Evans model underestimates the amount of material which lies unused in departments for long periods of the year and which might be of value to another discipline , or to a pupil in the enquiry mode ; it certainly contains no element which would stress interdisciplinary thinking , inter.departmental cooperation or the sharing of acquisitions and experience .
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