Example sentences of "[prep] which it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 2 | The Consortium had a lengthy list of over forty witnesses to present , and therefore a lot of material about which it could legitimately cross-question the Board . |
| 3 | The test questions should be what experienced teachers would be likely to ask , taking account of the character of the reading material , its context and the purposes for which it would normally be encountered . |
| 4 | The college has not yet applied for an English Heritage grant , for which it would certainly be eligible . |
| 5 | The third choice is for each house ( or pair of houses ) to have its own soakaway — this is simply a hole in the ground filled with bricks or rubble , into which the rainwater is taken and out of which it will slowly disperse . |
| 6 | Some of the office rooms were comfortable enough in their way — far more so , indeed , than those in the new building — still , they were most inconveniently arranged , in proof of which it need only be mentioned that the Secretary of State in going from his own room to the Cabinet Room had to pass through two rooms occupied by other persons . |
| 7 | Does he control presentation , identify the item , sequence properly ? 10 If a certain item is dealt with , how far removed is it from an item with which it could easily be confused ? 11 Are the contexts situational , natural and not contrived ? 12 Compare dialogue and prose texts : how many new words are introduced , and in what proportion to running words ( words already used ) ? |
| 8 | Supposing the union fell to pieces , these were the fracture lines along which it would naturally break . |
| 9 | CUCGA intends within five years to have ( i ) established relations with the media , Government Departments , Members of both Houses of Parliament and other bodies with an interest in higher education ; ( ii ) established itself as a campaigning body on behalf of graduate organisations ; ( iii ) opened its membership to encompass all university convocations and analogous bodies in the UK ; ( iv ) established methods of funding to allow it to support its expanded role ; ( v ) developed a comprehensive portfolio of policy issues upon which it can actively and publicly campaign at appropriate times . |
| 10 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 11 | Even if there was personal participation by all the citizens in the making of decisions and policies , the only situation in which it would even appear to be clear what was the will of the people would be a unanimous decision . |
| 12 | A world was coming in which it would almost certainly never again be possible to walk quietly , as Frederica and Alexander walked , through the village where Van Gogh tramped and set up his easel in the clean dust . |
| 13 | Also , there are situations in which it could well save the day . |
| 14 | The CNAA 's procedures , its concern with the total academic environment in which its courses were offered , had led it — at a time when its relationships with the institutions were under intensive discussion — to a position in which it could directly influence the management and operation of an institution where it perceived weaknesses , as well as the institution 's own relationships with governors and the local authority . |
| 15 | He added , however , that his Ministry is looking into ways in which it could legally ban their importation . |
| 16 | An explanation is given of the uses for which the module was designed and the ways in which it can best be used . |
| 17 | Its ‘ transcendence ’ marks the way in which it can similarly never be limited to a finite totality , nor , conversely , to an infinity : . |
| 18 | ‘ Geomorphology is changing rapidly ; this book signposts one of the ways in which it will surely develop . ’ |
| 19 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 20 | If LIFESPAN RDBI can not complete within the restricted time , it will stop at a sensible position from which it can subsequently restart . |
| 21 | The new presumption of guilt is most explicit in the 1985 Wildlife and Countryside Act : ‘ If , in any proceedings for an offence , there is evidence from which it could reasonably be concluded that the accused was digging for a badger , he shall be presumed to have been digging for a badger unless the contrary is shown . ’ |
| 22 | A court would interpret such words in their natural manner which is objective , i.e. the Secretary of State could not simply rely upon his own subjective beliefs , but would have to point to some evidence from which it could reasonably be inferred that , for example , Napoleon was a person of hostile origin . |
| 23 | The latter ( in which I took a great personal interest ) required the installation of a special engine to pump up the Secondary Modern sewage into a tank , at the Grammar School level , from which it could then flow gently eastwards towards the Oxford Road . |
| 24 | Just as the higher law of life stops an apple held in my hand from obeying the law of gravity to which it would otherwise be subject , so the law ( as he daringly calls it ) of the Spirit overcomes the sin death principle to which the Christian would otherwise be subject . |
| 25 | Note that the inflection occurring with the transposed lexical item has remained in its grammatically correct position , rather than moving with the base item to which it would normally have been attached . |
| 26 | I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life . |
| 27 | In his inaugural address to ministers earlier that day the Czechoslovak President , Vaclav Havel , had urged the CSCE to create " a smaller organ similar to that of the UN Security Council , to which it could also give some executive powers " . |
| 28 | This meant that while from our side they appeared cautious and reactionary , for the Board they provided a cheerful dawn chorus to which it could always confidently wake up . |
| 29 | Menlo Park , California-based Cisco Systems Inc wo n't be for too much longer : it has signed a lease agreement for a 46-acre site in northern San Jose , to which it will eventually move its headquarters . |
| 30 | Either the landlord or the tenant may be entitled to determine a term certain at a date earlier than that on which it would otherwise expire by effluxion of time . |