Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandison finds that the probability of citation will be halved by the transfer of library material to the Reserve Stock shelves , which may be at some distance from the main library shelving , or which may have to be fetched from remote stores . |
| 2 | In reply to Mr Pikes letter ( EE April ‘ 92 ) I have some information which may be of some use . |
| 3 | Although they tend to fit one pencil size only , there are rather more expensive holders available for use with wide pencils and industrial chalks which may be of some help to artists . |
| 4 | We communicate with each other through a variety of methods — by the staff newsletter ; by Office Notices ( which may be of three types — mandatory , advisory , and informative ) ; by internal memos and notes ; committee minutes , and by word of mouth . |
| 5 | Common male fetish objects , which may be of minor significance to the individual concerned , are breasts , legs , hair , shoes and underwear . |
| 6 | Indexing journals ( often simply called indexes ) give the straightforward bibliographical details of articles in the range of journals ( which may be in hundreds ) covered by the indexing service . |
| 7 | Apart from medicines , there are many other potentially dangerous chemicals , solid or liquid , which may be in any ordinary home : for example , substances for cleaning and decorating , and killing weeds and rodents . |
| 8 | David Wray ( 1983 ) describes another program type which should be of great interest to the reading teacher . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It may be appropriate just to state this intention in the heads of agreement and to leave the detailed description , which should be in greater detail than is normal in statutory accounts ( i.e. the policy for holiday pay accrual etc ) to the purchase and sale agreement . |
| 12 | Which should be in some cases be doubled in very bad weather like that . |
| 13 | But there is no reason for the Community to get involved in employment legislation , which must be for each country to decide for itself . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This starts to run from the date of delivery of the relevant return of allotments to the Registrar , which must be within one month of each allotment . |
| 18 | Some interesting and useful things can be done in the way of improving specific item search systems , but only if the catalogue has considerable " knowledge " of bibliographical items ( for example , one can envisage a catalogue which could say , " We have n't got Joseph Matthews on online catalogue screen displays , but there is an article in Library trends which might be of some interest " ) . |
| 19 | If you have any information which might be of special interest to our readers please send it to the Presbytery . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Each record is examined in turn , and its descriptors are compared with those of the search request ( which might be like that for a graduate engineer with other attributes shown above ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This does seem a reasonable argument , and I certainly would not want to lose a therapy which could be of real value to people . |
| 24 | For families in less straitened circumstances , one gift in kind which could be of increasing importance is the payment of school fees . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ There are plenty of opportunities for a greater exchange of expertise which could be of tremendous benefit to both sides . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | a scottish case which could be of persuasive value south of the border . |