Example sentences of "which could [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such courts continued to function under the supervision of a volunteer council made up largely of lawyers , which could review their decisions . |
| 2 | Instinctively they fear the strength of the emotional ties with their mother , which could prevent them from becoming mature and independent men . |
| 3 | Finally , if felling is the answer , then do make sure that your tree is not protected by a Tree Preservation Order , which could prevent you cutting it down . |
| 4 | What he meant by mysticism was belief in a direct , immediate experience of God ( or of Jesus ) which dissolved the distinction between God and man or between Christ and ourselves , a rapture of union which could carry us beyond time and history and the challenge and responsibility of the present . |
| 5 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 6 | Reporting restrictions were not lifted and the magistrates made an order preventing publication of the boys ' names or anything which could identify them . |
| 7 | Every document has its contribution to make to research , but there may be other documents not used which could make their contribution too . |
| 8 | He also had unusually heavy , drooping eyelids which could make him look comic or sinister , benevolent or supercilious . |
| 9 | The militants are split between degrees of intransigence , which could make them vulnerable at the polls . |
| 10 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 11 | The column reportedly reveals that Mirror chief executive David Montgomery and other senior staff hold options to buy shares in the newspaper group which could make them hundreds of thousands of pounds ' worth of profits . |
| 12 | It was broadly the premise of those movements that science and technology were evil , totalitarian and devoid of the attributes which could make them amenable to the " human spirit " . |
| 13 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 14 | Even where practices may not differ over time , or place , there may be an inconsistency about them or a lack of knowledge about them , or a long-standing dispute about them , which could make it equally difficult to argue that following or not following a practice was or was not constitutional or legitimate . |
| 15 | Around that time , we heard about a network , which could link us up to other cocoa workers around the world . |
| 16 | Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday . |
| 17 | Their shrill sounds and pounding rhythms echo through the valleys , calling communities to unite and appease the natural forces which could damn their crops . |
| 18 | The wealthier classes might have stone-built barns , which could protect their supplies , but houses built of timber and mud , and with earth floors , would be very damp , so it would be hard to protect grains both from rotting and from the depredations of rats and mice . |
| 19 | Your fiancee 's lighthearted disregard for timekeeping is n't exactly an illness which could be dealt with by a GP 's prescription , but although your question was flippant she has , it seems to me , a slight personality twist which could bring her problems . |
| 20 | But one large finance house which circulates new customers with literature promoting other loan possibilities reported that one in five pursue the offer no indication that the ‘ loans as loans ’ stage is with us yet , but a tribute to the power of the advertising which could bring it closer . |
| 21 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 22 | ‘ We would object to gates , which could stop us getting out to sea as quickly as we might like , ’ he said . |
| 23 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 24 | Other blood tests will see if you are anaemic ( see How Are Your Iron Levels ? ) , immune to rubella ( German measles ) , and find out whether you have syphilis , which could infect your baby if it is n't treated . |
| 25 | Andrew would go back to the bright lights of the capital and she , Benedicta , would ensure that Topaz was kept too busy to think about things which could break her heart . |
| 26 | Feeling the way he did , there was no bloody mountain on God 's Earth which could daunt him now . |
| 27 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 28 | Although the outlook may seem bleak , a constructive approach towards consultation might result in hitherto unconsidered options coming to light which could enable your job to be saved at the eleventh hour . |
| 29 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 30 | Yeremi recognized plasma cannons , macro-cannons , defence lasers — artillery which could melt fully armoured Marines , which could blow them away in scraps like chaff . |