Example sentences of "which they [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , if there are good reasons to target the assessment of the child 's command of specific grammatical structures or certain functional aspects of language , it may be sufficient to scan a tape for examples of these structures or functions , or for contexts in which they might reasonably be expected to occur . |
| 2 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 3 | Having survived the milling crowds at the station platforms ( in which they might easily be separated from brother or sister ) , children often found themselves bundled onto a train , not knowing their destination , and then enduring a long , slow journey in cramped coaches with no corridors or toilets . |
| 4 | Since unemployed workers are expecting zero price inflation , they perceive the rise in money wages ( 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 ) as a rise in real wages and some of them accept job offers which they might otherwise have refused . |
| 5 | AIDS is an issue which has enabled people to talk to one another and also think about issues which they might otherwise not have thought about — specifically about death at an early age . |
| 6 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 7 | Most of the Royal Navy 's frigates in the south Atlantic carried their own Exocets ( Britain is the biggest customer for the missile ) , which they might well have fired against Argentinian ships in an all-out naval war . |
| 8 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 9 | The Broad Church leaders , who hoped that the Church of England would again become a national Church , with which the Nonconformists could be closely associated or into which they might even be absorbed , were as enthusiastic about Bunyan as the Evangelicals . |
| 10 | In the new circumstances , ministers may feel justified in taking a little longer to reach their conclusions so that they can not be accused of hasty actions which they might later regret . |
| 11 | The ends to which they might properly be put would be severely limited by these considerations . |
| 12 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 13 | It must be remembered that it is often difficult to get people to express themselves freely , that there is a tendency in any survey for interviewees to say what they think they are expected to say , and that individuals frequently find it hard to express subjective views on an aspect of their life which they might never have consciously considered before . |
| 14 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 15 | There 's something else which keeps on coming back to me which they might possibly be interested in . ’ |
| 16 | If you show it to other people it could form part of their records which they may later be obliged to disclose . |
| 17 | It is never difficult to think of suitable gifts to take to elderly people who live alone , but apart from the obvious ones it is worth remembering that things like home-made cakes , biscuits , jam or marmalade which they may no longer bother to make for themselves are particularly appreciated . |
| 18 | But it seems to me to have the twofold advantages of first specifying with precision what it is that the parties have agreed , thus avoiding the possibility of misunderstanding or mistake , and , secondly , it enables the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may tentatively determine to depart from the agreed package . |
| 19 | Furthermore , participants in such orders may utilize and develop a heritage of knowledge which they may never be capable of grasping as a whole . |
| 20 | People will be willing to insure ( effectively saving money which they may never get back ) against contingencies which , if they occurred , would entail a drastic reduction in their standard of living . |
| 21 | Eleven such triple junctions , each possibly associated with a separate hot spot , have been identified on the continental part of the African Plate and an intriguing problem is the way in which they may subsequently promote continental rupture and develop into spreading centres . |
| 22 | Lectures feed learners with information , giving them a feeling of security because they have notes which they may then be able to regurgitate when answering a theoretical question . |
| 23 | It familiarizes students with those theories by which they may better understand themselves , the society in which they live and their role within it . |
| 24 | All the parties concerned gained publicity which they would probably not have achieved otherwise . |
| 25 | He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw ’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect . |
| 26 | The new Germany was to bind Prussia in and neutralise her : it was to accord a security to the other states which they would otherwise have lacked . |
| 27 | Thirdly , by raising the level of wages above that at which they would otherwise be , the trade union movement bears a major responsibility for the high and increasing level of unemployment in the U K today . |
| 28 | This suggests that some system of control must be introduced if farmers are to be persuaded to retain the wildlife habitats or landscape features which they would otherwise destroy . |
| 29 | There was a fear that as such centres were validated , local colleges would see a reduction in the number of students which they would otherwise have expected to attract . |
| 30 | This is the Government who have stopped pensioners getting an annual increase in line with Community living standards , a deliberate act of policy in 1980 , which cumulatively so far — according to a parliamentary answer to me on 25 November last — has removed from pensioners £31.8 billion of improved pensions which they would otherwise have had . |