Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Common male fetish objects , which may be of minor significance to the individual concerned , are breasts , legs , hair , shoes and underwear .
2 David Wray ( 1983 ) describes another program type which should be of great interest to the reading teacher .
3 Instead of nutrient content per 100 g , the authorities have related their figures to average portion sizes , which should be of practical value to dietitians , health care workers and the food industry .
4 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 .
5 But Tolkien would no doubt instantly have felt that Shakespeare had no copyright on the phrase , which must be of immemorial antiquity in English , ‘ as old as the hills ’ .
6 As the communal conscience is examined , in an avalanche of detail , after the death of little James Bulger , there are certain aspects of contributory neglect which must be of great concern to everyone .
7 All manholes must have covers which give access for clearing blockages , and which must be of adequate strength to take pedestrian traffic or , in the case of driveways , vehicles .
8 If you have any information which might be of special interest to our readers please send it to the Presbytery .
9 An excellent comparison of Athenian and Spartan habits and philosophy is given by Thucydides , in the mouth of Pericles ( ii.39 ) : ‘ our city is open to the world , and we have no periodical deportations in order to Trevent people observing or finding out secrets which might be of military advantage to the enemy . ’
10 Similarly a chorus of cavaliers , referring to ‘ corni e tamburi , e trombe ’ , has instrumental parts which could be for actual trumpets and drums but are more probably for strings imitating them , since in Act II when Chiron is supposed to play his lyre the music consists of a sinfonia di viole , and the passata dell'armata which ends the First Act of Didone ( 1641 ) and another chiamata alla caccia in the Third are equally ambiguous .
11 This does seem a reasonable argument , and I certainly would not want to lose a therapy which could be of real value to people .
12 For families in less straitened circumstances , one gift in kind which could be of increasing importance is the payment of school fees .
13 If the Government can seriously contemplate investing £3,000 million in a company employing 100,000 people , they should also be prepared to start the discussion by studying the proposition with a view to supporting a project which could be of tremendous advantage to the nation as a whole .
14 ‘ There are plenty of opportunities for a greater exchange of expertise which could be of tremendous benefit to both sides .
15 The aim of the project is to try to discover the processes by which this efficiency is attained , which could be of great value in the design of automatic systems of face recognition .
16 We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past .
17 READERS who care for a dementia sufferer may like to know that Counsel & Care has just published a fact sheet which could be of considerable help to them .
18 a scottish case which could be of persuasive value south of the border .
19 It is viewed as a ‘ foreign body ’ invading the department , rather than something which could be of potential value .
20 We were on our way to the river to photograph the landscape which , Lady Rutherford told us indignantly , would be ruined for ever if Mr Knightley allowed Mr Dinsdale and his industrialist friends to dig a quarry , part of which would be on common land .
21 The Ulster representatives feel that Manchester is capable of staging a games of ‘ unparalleled quality ’ which would be of lasting benefit to world sport .
22 The Ulster representatives feel that Manchester is capable of staging a games of ‘ unparalleled quality ’ which would be of lasting benefit to world sport .
23 Moynihan and his growing body of supporters ridiculed this proposal , and many commentators felt that the administration would find it very difficult to reject Moynihan 's demand for an immediate social security tax cut ( which would benefit all citizens ) whilst pursuing a reduction in capital gains tax which would be of chief benefit to those who were already among the most wealthy .
24 Can your precious ethnography tell us anything which would be of practical use about managing these queues ?
25 It is known that the RUC has accumulated considerable evidence which would be of great interest to an impartial inquiry .
26 A population increase of about 3.5 million was forecast in the South-east in the period 1961–81 , just over 1 million of which would be from net inward migration , the remainder in the form of natural increase .
27 Given the stance of policy approved Policy I eleven in relation to B eight development and the fact that we are here discussing an alteration not a review and replacement of the structure plan , does anyone around the table she said looking hard at Mr Saunders , see any difficulty in the panel poten potentially recommending a policy which would be in direct wi conflict with the policy which is not before it ?
28 By the time you get all the crew up on the windward rail , which would be in true wind of 10 – 12 knots , you should be flattening the bottom of the main and opening up the leech .
29 WHEN I read the opening words of your jazz columnist Solly Lipsitz on August 26 , ‘ As this will be my final Thursday column ’ , I felt that I should express my feelings at what I see as a matter which will be of deep concern to the entire jazz fraternity in Northern Ireland .
30 The first is the provision of a data set which will be of general value to the social scientific community and which will enable scholars in the field of electoral behaviour to update and develop their research .
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