Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [vb mod] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cellars are full of junk , most of which might have been useful once but all of which is now covered in water or mud or fungus . |
| 2 | At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) . |
| 3 | In the meantime , on Earth , we have reached the stage in our narrative where simple unicellular creatures have become multicellular creatures , the earliest known of which would have been the jellyfish . |
| 4 | Spears and axes have utilitarian forms , the manufacture of which would have been within the abilities of anyone with basic smithing experience ; both have sockets for handles/shafts which would have been created by beating the iron around a former . |
| 5 | This would have probably entailed working involuntary overtime , possibly long , awkward hours and , almost certainly , making a physical input , one consequence of which would have been a limit on the amount of time spent with the children and energy contributed to their amusement . |
| 6 | They wanted the stimulus package , much of which would have been spent in inner cities . |
| 7 | It was significant that the Official Secrets Act — the use of which would have been fatal to the publication — was not resorted to by the government . |
| 8 | All of which would have been bad enough without Charlotte 's final revelation . |
| 9 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |
| 10 | The villa at Box , Wilts. , had pavements of white limestone ( used for much of the background work ) , blue-black lias , a dark-grey/ chocolate-coloured pennant stone , red from broken tiles and yellow oolite ; all of which would have been procurable within about five miles of the site . |
| 11 | The remainder of the treatment would have cost a further £23,000 , most of which would have been recouped in return for appearing in advertising promotions . |
| 12 | It has a long , narrow plan , the northern end of which may have been used for stabling horses or housing the cattle . |
| 13 | The borehole proved an important condensed interval as well as a thick sequence of sandy limestones , the sand content of which may have been eroded from fault scarps nearby . |
| 14 | As I sit at this word processor , the chips of which may have been assembled by a young woman in the Philippines for a pittance a day and for such long hours that her eyes will be damaged in a tax haven created specially for foreign companies , I am acutely aware of the link between the health of the people of the Philippines and my life here in Britain . |
| 15 | They may be composed of impact ejecta , some of which may have been molten . |
| 16 | New courses appear every year to compete with those which are already on the market ( some of which may have been in use for many years ) and which are quite successful in their various ways . |
| 17 | A publisher is eligible for membership when they publish fifteen titles , ten of which must have been commercially exploited land they must all have been written by PRS writer members ) . |
| 18 | They showed some decline in the 1931 Census ( to 48 per cent and 8 per cent respectively ) , part of which must have been the result of high general levels of unemployment in the depths of the inter-war depression . |
| 19 | They are distributed along the shorelines in innumerable enclaves ( sensu Crisp , 1 978 ) * many of which must have been isolated for long enough ( since the sea level rose to its present height after the retreat of the last ice sheet ) for them to have evolved local forms to suit the particular selective influences of their habitats . |
| 20 | They dropped down into a chamber , the roof of which must have been seven or eight feet high , and where the air seemed quite fresh . |
| 21 | But , as she herself points out , the particular activities for which the Shropshire group were prosecuted exist on a continuum with a large number of more common acts , many of which must have been criminalised by the Rant decision ; if the breaking of skin suffices for a conviction of assault , even moderately rough sex becomes problematic . |
| 22 | RAF teams from Abingdon had the unenviable task of moving the RAF Museum 's XL318 by road to Hendon , the real cost of which must have been mind-boggling . |
| 23 | Two seconds , one of which should have been a first . |
| 24 | Herbs are cast into the fire by the Lady of the Flowers in lieu of what may have been gory sacrifices by our sun-worshipping ancestors . |
| 25 | Although , as we shall see , many varied and lengthy accounts of what may have been the distinguishing characteristics of the fabliaux have been produced , the short definition given by Bédier in 1893 still attracts support : the fabliaux , he declared , are " " contes à rire en vers " " . |
| 26 | While smaller ticket ( or lease deal value ) items suffered , some major big ticket deals helped ease the blow of what would have been an even more difficult year . |
| 27 | Campese 's decision robbed 60,000 in the stadium , and countless millions around the world , of what would have been one of the most intense and fascinating finales to the World Cup , with England only three points behind , their heads up and winning score in sight . |
| 28 | The case would be more useful as a guide to sentencers in similar cases if the extent of the discount were more precisely stated and a clear indication given of the court 's view of what would have been the correct sentence at first instance . |
| 29 | The dinosaurs were the highest form of reptile , but in Owen 's time they were the earliest known members of the class — exactly the reverse of what would have been predicted by a theory of continuous development . |
| 30 | The indefinite postponement , of what would have been the country 's first direct election of mayors and provincial governors since 1961 , had led to opposition charges of dictatorship against the DLP . |