Example sentences of "which [pron] would [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In his careful and extremely clear judgment , which I would gladly adopt as my own , Phillips J. dealt with all those points .
2 There 's a move to legalise lifting , a change which I would wholeheartedly endorse .
3 King & McGaw is a specialist poster publisher and distributor , as is Motif Editions , which I would strongly recommend for academic bookshops in university towns , since demand amongst first year students for Motif 's Escher posters and Salvador Dali prints never ceases to amaze me .
4 But anyway , in the end she was fired and her last act was to send a memo to Tony DeFries , the contents of which I would rather not go into .
5 However , given the choice , if that is a choice , there is no question as to which I would rather be .
6 Er so I suspect it 's not worked out quite as we intended er and it I mean the main problem is that it 's it 's it 's cost us time , cost me time which I would rather have spent on something else but there we are .
7 ‘ This instrument is a project which I would very much like to build and utilize .
8 We are restricted somewhat by time , because I want to get everybody back in the main auditorium to listen to what I know is going to be a fantastic lecture by Professor Don , er from Baltimore , which I would certainly recommend that everybody go and see .
9 I 'm very sorry that as soon as I have finished this welcome this morning that I have got to leave you , and I am very sorry that I shall not be able to return this evening for your dinner which I would originally look forward very much to but I trust that you will enjoy the company of the Chairman of our Environmental Services Committee , Councillor Robin Draga , who is attending on my behalf .
10 I had made a start in Burmese at the School of Oriental Languages in London , going up from Stepney for a weekly lesson , so I could read haltingly and use a score or more greetings and questions , which deceived the kindly village people into thinking that I knew more than I did , with the result that an opening sentence of mine would elicit a whole string of Burmese from which I would only pick up a word or two .
11 The decision of the Divisional Court in the Manchester Corporation case is not binding on this court and , although it may in the event have reached a conclusion with which I would now agree , I find the reasoning by which that conclusion was reached wholly unconvincing .
12 I have seen clauses in record contracts which are absolutely meaningless and which I would happily have traded for a defined amount of money for a tour support , video , or promotional commitment .
13 All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake .
14 During the process , however , I have learnt so much about myself which I would never have known otherwise .
15 ‘ On my tour I 'm going to sing My Funny Valentine and Some Enchanted Evening — songs which I would never have tackled before .
16 Erm , and I think that aspect of the royal family is one which I would really do without !
17 And so , depending on what you want to do on nine o'clock on Monday morning , you would take out the required floppy disc , put it in your computer , take out your data disc , which you would also have kept , put that in the second floppy disc unit , and you 'd be ready to run that particular application .
18 only then will you avoid difficulties which you would otherwise encounter in claiming any money owing to your copyrights .
19 Developing such skills will stand you in good stead for when some stressful situation occurs to which you would normally respond by eating a box of chocolates or downing four or five gin and tonics or glasses of beer .
20 And I 'm going to suggest it 's in your interest to learn how the media operate , and it 's in your interest to cultivate the media , and it 's in your interest to actually persuade the media to do a lot of the work which you would normally do for yourselves if I could put it that way .
21 That , in some cases , that has been explored for the storage of heat in the summer which you would then use in the winter , but everywhere one comes back to storage nuclear power stations can not be turned up and down quickly at the moment , so either with electricity you have to have a uniform demand for electricity , or you have to , say , burn gas to provide an alternative way of generating electricity which can be turned up and down at will .
22 Stroll around a spa ( and the atmosphere of relaxation hardly invites you to go any faster ) and you become lulled into a state in which you would hardly be surprised to see a monarch emerge from the portals of an hotel .
23 If there are aspects of the job which you would ideally like to share then put these to your manager and discuss possibilities .
24 A whole week in Paris at Easter seemed to her something for which she would willingly have sold her soul .
25 Kim was eventually seen by a psychiatrist and the latter told the parents she was going through a phase of sibling rivalry which she would eventually grow out of .
26 She looks around her , dazed and sluggish , while her brain tries to piece together the blurred details and recollections that will tell her where she is , and — which she would rather forget-what brought her here .
27 Ruth 's clothes , which she would soon have grown out of , she put into bags for Oxfam .
28 He could imagine the words in which she would later report to her husband .
29 She , who had always helped lame dogs , now refused the many helping hands that were held out to her , because they only hauled her back , temporarily , into a life of comfort from which she would later have to return to reality .
30 Sons would volunteer and rush off to the village to bring back a ‘ set of couches ’ , proudly waiting for the praise which she would generously give , though they might not be quite what she expected .
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