Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 2 | the chorus , which ought to have a noise like a street drill ) . |
| 3 | Articles may reveal diversification plans which may mean a company suddenly becomes a potential customer ; advertisements for personnel may reveal plans for expansion , again suggesting potential new business . |
| 4 | A new pay deal — which may mean a cut of up to £1 1/2 MILLION — could also head off the growing clamour at Westminster for a Commons inquiry into whether the family gives value for money . |
| 5 | The media provide , in Blumler 's words , ‘ the informational building blocks to structure views of the world … from which may stem a range of actions ’ . |
| 6 | It can be useful to refer to something you all have in common , which may restore a feeling of harmony . |
| 7 | Mr Bond is desperate for the deal to stand , since Bell Resources is crucial to his A$2.5billion brewery deal with New Zealand 's Lion Nathan which may underpin a debt restructuring plan for his entire media , property and brewing group , currently labouring to reduce around A$8billion of debts . |
| 8 | As the Lord Chancellor indicated when the Bill was in committee , the provision was deliberately tailored to meet those exceptional cases involving ‘ the sort of invention which may revolutionise a company or perhaps even a whole industry ’ |
| 9 | I think Stuart is hoping several group members will contribute specific perspectives , each of which may form a chapter of the report , whereas others will contribute through critical assessment of the issues . |
| 10 | I think Stuart is hoping several group members will contribute specific perspectives , each of which may form a chapter of the report , whereas others will contribute through an assessment of the issues . |
| 11 | No one is ever fully prepared for bereavement , and even if her husband 's terminal illness was one from which she had known he could not hope to recover , his death will still have come as a shock to her which may create a feeling of numbness and unreality : . |
| 12 | Intense pain or spasm of the surrounding muscles which may suggest a fracture . |
| 13 | They also offer relatively modest time allocations for practical and prevocational subjects in upper primary classes , a feature which may reflect a lack of real conviction by syllabus panels to respond to the political creed that such studies are necessary and profitable for primary level children , but may also be born of a firm realistic assessment of the lack of money and materials to make such studies workable . |
| 14 | This year the tee is 15 yards further back , which may preclude a repetition , though no trees have been planted , as was hinted , to prevent the feat . |
| 15 | These checks are very important because they can show , for instance , if there are likely to be any difficulties with the birth which may make a Caesarean section necessary . |
| 16 | The parts of the world — the Third World — which may suffer a loss , real or relative , as a result are generally estimated to have a debt of $1300 billion . |
| 17 | From a non-evolutionist standpoint , however , the problems that can be posed concerning the state , within a Marxist conception , are limited to the following : the formation of the state as a consequence of a structural transformation of primitive communal societies ( so far as these can be properly located and studied ) ; the types of state which correspond with determinate , historically realized , modes of production , and the conditions which produce a transition from one type to another ; and in the case of capitalist society , the structural characteristics , including the contradictions , which may effect a transition to another ( unknown ) type of society . |
| 18 | A monosyllable which may precede a noun . |
| 19 | ( This means that the user sees ‘ primitive ’ spatial operations and not a whole spatial problem which may involve a sequence of primitive operations ) . |
| 20 | If she responds favourably to this ( which , if you are wise , you will have conveyed more through your attitudes than your actual words ) , you and her other helpers should try to create various circumstances or events which may stand a chance of helping her to break the habit of mourning : an interesting holiday , perhaps , or some new and mildly challenging experience which calls for her to look beyond herself to someone else in trouble , who will make her feel ‘ needed ’ . |
| 21 | The oxygen linkages between the sugar rings remain the vulnerable links in the cellulose molecule which may reach a length of several hundred glucose units . |
| 22 | The eruption of highly viscous lava , such as that formed by the degassing of rhyolite or andesite , can create large domes which may reach a height of several hundred metres and a width of several kilometres . |
| 23 | In time , however , they may learn to cope and discover a great deal in the child they have raised , which may lead a life which is no less happy , but just ‘ different ’ to that of others in some ways . |
| 24 | The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a hitherto generally unobserved feature of the parallelistic couplet in Hebrew poetry , a feature which may offer a point de départ for a revised perception of the nature of the parallelistic couplet as such . |
| 25 | Chemical analysis is usually employed to determine the materials from which an object is made , and often to identify trace elements which may give a clue to the origins and date of the object . |
| 26 | Another factor which may influence a firm 's decision is that of competition from other firms in the same line of business . |
| 27 | Minor buffering phases such as phlogopite and carbonates , which may play a role in low-degree partial melting of the mantle , have been invoked as an explanation for high U/Pb in areas of old continental lithosphere , but there is no obvious phase that will buffer K and Pb to produce the effect observed in Fig. 3 b , without also affecting Ba or Ti ; Ba/Ce ratios of central Atlantic OIB are in fact relatively uniform . |
| 28 | One mutant ( H197K ) showed a 5-fold reduction in affinity for substance P but not in the affinities of other neurokinin peptides ( data not shown ) , which may indicate a perturbation of the substance P-receptor interaction as a result of the longer side chain and/or the positive charge of Lys197 . |
| 29 | However , strict neurological assessment showed that even in these infants minor neurological impairments were detectable , which may indicate a risk of cognitive deficits later . |
| 30 | But the Clinton proposals were reported to be causing concern to Saudi Arabia , the world 's largest oil exporter , which may seek a dialogue with Western nations on issues of petroleum supply and taxation . |