Example sentences of "which it [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is another aspect of the construction of a word which it may also be helpful to know something about : that some ( particularly longer ) words are built out of other words , by adding prefixes at the beginning or suffixes at the end . |
| 2 | Whatever we do with a horse from the beginning of its life will influence the creation of habits or forms of behaviour which it may well keep for the rest of its life . |
| 3 | The empirical evidence may destroy the reformative aim as a plausible general justification of the penal system , but reform remains a reductivist aim which it may well be right to pursue within a penal system . |
| 4 | If at the end of the eight week period since completion , debts remained unpaid , the vendor should have the right to buy back [ at an agreed discount ] the debts which it may then seek to enforce ( as vigorously as it wishes ) in order to seek payment . |
| 5 | That if our health service and social security system has got any special advantages erm left , which it may still have , erm then perhaps erm our friends in the Community could learn a bit from them . |
| 6 | So for its first half-century , after Weisthenes , the Athenian Council was an unpaid elected body , something which gave it an elite character which it may never wholly have lost . |
| 7 | This is defined as the rent which it might reasonably be expected to command if let from year to year , with the tenant bearing the rates and the cost of insurance and repairs . |
| 8 | The briefs and opinions in the case were immediately circulated by the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference to the experts who were shortly to attend a Special Commission of the Conference to review the workings of the Convention , and this gave the case a prominence ( and in some quarters a notoriety ) which it might otherwise have escaped . |
| 9 | The question of homage , on the contrary , was another matter : its significance lay not in the amount of service which it might subsequently furnish to the kings of France , but in the principle which it enshrined . |
| 10 | That gave Standard a stranglehold on the oil market which it might still enjoy had not America 's trustbusters split the company up . |
| 11 | One time no a long time ago , which it might actually , might you might have been at the meeting , I do n't know . |
| 12 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 13 | The test questions should be what experienced teachers would be likely to ask , taking account of the character of the reading material , its context and the purposes for which it would normally be encountered . |
| 14 | Note that the inflection occurring with the transposed lexical item has remained in its grammatically correct position , rather than moving with the base item to which it would normally have been attached . |
| 15 | The inflation in the early stages of the universe , which the no boundary proposal predicts , means that the universe must be expanding at very close to the critical rate at which it would just avoid recollapse , and so will not recollapse for a very long time . |
| 16 | And it may well fit the budget of the bread manufacturer , who could have other lines of market research enquiry which it would also like to pursue , for which funding must also be made available . |
| 17 | Even if there was personal participation by all the citizens in the making of decisions and policies , the only situation in which it would even appear to be clear what was the will of the people would be a unanimous decision . |
| 18 | Just as the higher law of life stops an apple held in my hand from obeying the law of gravity to which it would otherwise be subject , so the law ( as he daringly calls it ) of the Spirit overcomes the sin death principle to which the Christian would otherwise be subject . |
| 19 | Either the landlord or the tenant may be entitled to determine a term certain at a date earlier than that on which it would otherwise expire by effluxion of time . |
| 20 | One of them is the law of return ; another is diversification — as against any kind of monoculture ; another is decentralisation , so that some use can be found for even quite inferior resources which it would never be rational to transport over long distances . |
| 21 | A world was coming in which it would almost certainly never again be possible to walk quietly , as Frederica and Alexander walked , through the village where Van Gogh tramped and set up his easel in the clean dust . |
| 22 | The college has not yet applied for an English Heritage grant , for which it would certainly be eligible . |
| 23 | Walter Heape , a reader in zoology and an anti-suffragist , writing at the end of the century , exulted in a description of menstruation which wallowed in gore , a picture of devastation , rupture , torn membranes , ‘ from which it would hardly seem possible to heal satisfactorily without the aid of surgical treatment ’ … |
| 24 | At the conclusion of the hearing the Board intimated that it would humbly advise Her Majesty that the appeal should be dismissed , for reasons which it would subsequently deliver . |
| 25 | I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life . |
| 26 | A central question in the present case is whether it is open to your Lordships ' House to follow their judicial brethren overseas down the road of development of the law ; and , if so , whether it would be appropriate to do so , and which is the precise path which it would then be appropriate to choose . |
| 27 | Supposing the union fell to pieces , these were the fracture lines along which it would naturally break . |
| 28 | They make much of tobacco being a ‘ legal product ’ which it should therefore , they allege , be legal to advertise . |
| 29 | The Commission normally takes two months to investigate charges , after which it could either instruct Britain to set its VAT rates in conformity with European legislation or proceed to put into effect the long awaited 7th Directive on fiscal matters . |
| 30 | The Consortium had a lengthy list of over forty witnesses to present , and therefore a lot of material about which it could legitimately cross-question the Board . |