Example sentences of "which would " in BNC.
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1 | The Inland Revenue will not accept ‘ escape ’ conditions which would effectively enable you to terminate the covenant of your own volition . |
2 | Another new instrument that the Commission will be considering next year is a revised draft of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture , which would set up an international system of visits to places of detention , aimed at preventing torture and ill-treatment . |
3 | My aim was to investigate the symptoms of decay and perhaps to discover in the ‘ capriciousness and the return to chaos ’ a law which would vouchsafe one an insight into the intimate workings of art . |
4 | What private letters from an artist can do best is to elucidate what was uppermost in an artist 's mind at the time , often artistic aims which would be difficult to discover otherwise . |
5 | His Postscript evokes the aim of a white-coated Doctor Kundera ‘ to solve an aesthetic problem : how to write a novel which would be a ‘ critique of poetry ’ and yet at the same time would itself be poetry ’ . |
6 | It is as if the discovery could have no meaning for anyone experiencing the novel — which would certainly be curious . |
7 | This is a view which would accord with the dualistic tradition to which his novels predominantly belong . |
8 | The modes which he adopted were such as to licence elisions and lacunae , to enable him to leave out bits of his life — a procedure which would seem to be connected with his scepticism about what can be known about people by biographers . |
9 | Indeed , until the ecumenical era of the 1960s , few catholics in Ireland were prepared to put before themselves some of the political religious issues which would have to be resolved if a united Ireland or accommodation to a separate political entity in Ulster were to become a possibility . |
10 | Clearly , the spirit of the laws of this Irish state was to be a religious one and therefore one which would not take account of the then one thousand , and now ten thousand or more of the population in the Southern state who professed no religion . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | More recently , the Prospect Inn was threatened by an enlargement scheme by Whitbread which would have totally destroyed the remaining original features of the building , and its remarkable plan . |
13 | Mr Kidd said the committee was producing a draft guide for management which would include a review of existing legislation in six European countries . |
14 | Magnus could have made one of his rude jokes which would really have got Claire going . |
15 | Which would you rather have in your garden — sticky clay or thin , hungry sand ? |
16 | Moving away from the terrace , broad steps drop down past a rose and herb bed edged with low growing box to the first lawn level , which would make an ideal play area . |
17 | You could put them in the fridge , but many like a fluctuating temperature which would be extremely hard to simulate ! |
18 | Disregard any fields which would entail landing on a downhill slope . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | With the disappearance of temple-worship as such , this fell into misuse , but a new significance took its place , which would have had particular significance for Leonard 's parents and grandparents . |
21 | His deeper and more influential education was thereby commenced , based on the key concept of ‘ oneness ’ , which would be intensified by the traditional recitations and questionings the eldest son asks of his father at Passover and the other festivals , and by his presence from an early age in the synagogue . |
22 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
23 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
24 | She hit upon a pair of corduroy breeches which would fit snugly at the waist but balloon over the hips , with highly-polished brown leather boots for a touch of chic , a maroon Italian sweater , which at 15p at a jumble sale had been a real snip , and a jaunty maroon beret . |
25 | ‘ Did you tell the trade union side about an obscure precedent which would allow for their claim to the bonus ? ’ |
26 | With the help of the red iron a Tramen is able to inhale the atmosphere of the planet — which would otherwise be deadly to him — and to exhale gas for export to Vascar . |
27 | The steps were in flights , with platforms at intervals which would allow her to stop and rest . |
28 | She stopped in the shelter of a stone wall , drank a cup of coffee , consulted the map and decided to aim for a twenty-five mile circuit which would bring her out , eventually , at the foot of the steep hill near the village . |
29 | First , it may be that no one ( as yet ) has made the critical observations which would allow the pattern to become evident . |
30 | The physical brain and the world of introspectible phenomenal experience are all that there really is : ‘ no cognitive psychologist has succeeded in defining another sort of input between these two which would provide the ultimate bits of information to which rules are applied ’ ( p. 199 ) . |