Example sentences of "which would [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out . |
| 2 | In the circumstances , any aid which a politician could offer was a very material favour which would long be remembered by the friends of the individual in difficulties . |
| 3 | The main disadvantage of a Schedule E income tax charge is that it arises before the managers realise any cash from their shares to pay the tax , and that the benefit of indexation , which would apply were the gains to be subject to capital gains tax rather than income tax , will not be available . |
| 4 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 5 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 6 | Ashton thus created a special style fur a particular character which summed up — as it were — her whole being , but which would have been unsuitable for any other ballet . |
| 7 | After the 21 May rally , demonstrations became relatively commonplace and on a scale which would have been unthinkable a month earlier . |
| 8 | Elsewhere the errors were more elementary — during a scene which looked suspiciously like product placement for a Canadian lager there was a continuity error which would have been embarrassing in a home-movie . |
| 9 | He could say sentences which would have been preposterous if they were seen as rhetoric but which he could carry because they were delivered with uproarious humour — ‘ Liberalism prolonged one 's youth , Liberalism did not decay ’ . |
| 10 | Although it is clear that these changes were made in order to admit light to the new , deep-plan living accommodation , it is conceivable that the judicious use of ranges of standard reversible and ventilating roof windows might have provided an answer to this requirement which would have been less erosive of the original external appearance . |
| 11 | Sir Peter justified his call for openness in terms which would have been unthinkable from his immediate predecessor , Sir Kenneth Newman , and indeed from any predecessor : ‘ Professions , including police , tend by definition to be monopolists of knowledge and through that knowledge , power . |
| 12 | The modus vivendi was not signed , but it was promulgated in January 1948 in the minutes of the Combined Policy Committee so as to avoid reference to Congress or to the United Nations , which would have been necessary for a formal international agreement . |
| 13 | Further , the rules of Equity , though they did not contradict the rules of Common Law , in effect and in practice produced a result opposed to that which would have been produced if the Common Law rules had remained alone . |
| 14 | She had hung up a Breughel pint , and the golden patterns on the wall brought it to life — the Elizabethan diamond panes casting shafts of light and designs which would have been impossible through a modern window . |
| 15 | In the 1920s and 1930s a large percentage of the so-called ancient material which would have been familiar to interested collectors was the product of this well-established manufacture . |
| 16 | In her childhood her father was obliged to take a job , not in the colonial administration which would have been more or less acceptable , but as a manager of one of the Peruvian silver mines . |
| 17 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 18 | A gene which causes its carrier to forgo reproduction in favour of raising relatives will increase in frequency in the population if the number of replicas of the gene in those relatives is greater than the number which would have been present in its own offspring . |
| 19 | The project in Mickley , Northumberland , involving hundreds of children aged from seven to 11 , was made possible by the chance discovery in the old school 's attic of equipment which would have been used in 1892 . |
| 20 | Leading the rise were the prices of privatisation shares which would have been threatened by a Labour government . |
| 21 | These figures take no account of people who have commissioned a registered builder to build their house which would have been zero rated for VAT . |
| 22 | From the surviving documentation , annotations on meeting papers , careful notes made of verbal exchanges and copies of correspondence it is possible to reconstruct the broad sequence of events and the serial proposals and counter-proposals which marked a period of intensive and difficult negotiation with neither side being prepared to risk an open breach in relationships which would have been publicly damaging . |
| 23 | In encouraging scholars to attend his palace , Charlemagne allowed a freedom of speech which would have been unthinkable from other men . |
| 24 | This was a sensible and useful method of reference ; one which would have been invaluable to the gatherers of simples , who must have been grateful to find the information in a reasonably priced book . |
| 25 | If the scheme had not been available Renshaw says that she would have considered giving up work , which would have been difficult , or considered some other form of childcare , but it was never really necessary to consider the alternatives because of the availability of the career break scheme . |
| 26 | Without actually opening it , which would have been to examine the beast physiologically , Hull inferred numerous relationships between levels of motivation ( drive ) and the extent of learning ( habit strength ) that rendered a response more or less probable . |
| 27 | The Domesday Survey records a mill at Hucclecote which would have been Pitts or Ptymilne Mill . |
| 28 | That is , an authority may rely on considerations which do not apply to its subjects when doing so reliably leads to decisions which approximate better than any which would have been reached by any other procedure , to those decisions best supported by reasons which apply to the subjects . |
| 29 | ‘ I would have expected more ; Particularly on the shift , which would have been next to the wound . ’ |
| 30 | BP and its partners , who have been licensed by the Government to drill for oil in the area , have consulted closely with the Trust and have ruled out the easiest and cheapest development option , which would have been a ten-acre onshore site at Studland . |