Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The current South African team is still a long way from emulating the 1960s side which could well have claimed World Championship status if they had been able to test their strength against Garry Sobers ' West Indies .
2 By May the play was almost complete — all that was necessary was the process of readjustment which would necessarily take place in consultation with director and actors .
3 An analogy which would better express Aquinas ' view compares the universe to a number of objects , say a pile of books on a table .
4 In the ensuing weeks the two parties negotiated an agreement on a transitional federal coalition which would effectively oversee the dismantling of the Czechoslovak state .
5 On historical form , the Liberal Democrats will agree either to support a minority Labour government which will be short lived , or join a coalition which will swiftly become unpopular .
6 The housekeeper then has the room serviced and when it is ready for letting , presses the switch in the bedroom which will then show a green light on all boards , indicating that the room is now ready to be let .
7 The hippocampus receives a large cholinergic innervation which may also play a role because LTP can be enhanced by the cholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine but is reduced by the anticholinergic agent scopolamine .
8 We would suggest that in neuropathic pseudoobstruction it is more likely that the tachygastria is induced by loss of intrinsic inhibitory innervation which may normally modify the frequency of polarisation of the plasmalemmal membrane of the gastric smooth muscle cells .
9 The North American mink , he says , has fitted into the niche which would otherwise have been occupied by the European mink had it ever reached Britain .
10 BY LEAVING FOR AUSTRALIA , Gould was not only side-stepping the wash he had helped to agitate with Darwin ; he was preserving for himself a niche which would forever distinguish him from the motley and profusive competition of all other ornithological illustrators .
11 It was also trying to persuade large drug companies to invest in rainforest protection ; investment which would not stem from any sense of altruism on their behalf but because , for the industrialised world , the value of medicines derived from the rainforest runs at over forty billion dollars per year .
12 You worry in the here and now about things in the future which may never happen .
13 Consequently some people become sucked into what they see as an exclusive club which will eventually pay them a hefty financial dividend .
14 a black photograph which will not turn out .
15 Each school was encouraged to define its particular needs and prepare a programme which would best meet them .
16 The night 's proceedings will be recorded and included in the international broadcast programme which will also feature many top artists like Deee Lite , James , Ride , Primal Scream , Bomb The Bass , Mano Negra and Peter Gabriel .
17 The first audits will take place this autumn as part of a rolling programme which will eventually take in all centres .
18 The Authority meets on Friday to reconsider its building programme which will now have to be slowed down , owing to the collapse of the property market .
19 Finally , as in England , the MSC in Wales , together with the further education colleges , is busily making preparations for the introduction in September 1983 of the Youth Training Scheme , a programme which will greatly increase the pressure on the colleges , to provide suitable courses of further education .
20 The need to survive is , after all , the most basic instinct we have , and it is necessary to use one 's powers of intuition to detect the change of mind which may well accompany the facing of possible extinction .
21 Clearly , it has a mind which can actually distinguish twenty notes per second while singing them , also hearing the nuances and variations in both its own songs as well as fellow members of its kind .
22 Hypotheses , then , help us to refine theory by bringing more details into consideration in areas of research which may previously have only been explored in a rather sketchy way .
23 The next problem comes when we recognize that the work done so far has produced a piece of research which could easily keep a dozen people occupied for the rest of their lives .
24 Work here will concentrate in areas like information technology , and further liquid crystal research which will eventually make 3-dimensional and high definition television widely available .
25 The everyday defects and difficulties that arise , such as the catering truck that backs into an aircraft puncturing the pressurised fuselage near the door or the mainwheel tyre that throws its tread on take-off , and the thousand and one other events that amount to a deviation from normal operation of the aircraft , are all investigated to some extent , according to how serious they might be , and a report is raised to the appropriate department which should then effect the necessary corrective action .
26 After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph .
27 Still , it gave Mary five minutes of fame overtime which might not have been allocated otherwise .
28 The removal of such barriers would increase market entry which would directly lead to an increase in competition , and thereby to reductions in X-inefficiency and monopoly pricing practices .
29 The sense of isolation which might otherwise ensue is , however , mitigated by the close contact with neighbours and workmates in the other tied houses and by increasing contact with the farmer who is now a neighbour as well as an employer .
30 It 's a tragedy which will probably set us back a generation .
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