Example sentences of "which [modal v] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few accents of English which may do this , so that , for example , ‘ cattle ’ is pronounced , but this is not the case in RP . |
| 2 | There are a number of suitable subjects , all of which should do reasonably well , even if it does get cool . |
| 3 | Bertrams had free Quality Street , which should do their sales no harm at all . |
| 4 | ‘ He felt that if he went there it may have generated extra publicity through TV and radio interviews which might do some good in tracing the girls , ’ said Simon . |
| 5 | If a government went back on this assurance there would be no IAEA safeguards which could do anything about the position . |
| 6 | Constructed as a spoof documentary about a political candidate for the US Senate whose promotional ads are pop videos and whose campaign bus is a mobile trading floor , it joins the dots of a diagram — Eighties politics as the flip-side of Sixties counter-culture — which has long been part of the landscape ( and which could do with an update ) . |
| 7 | A couple of design areas which could do with more thought are the hood and the pockets . |
| 8 | ‘ This one 's got brass handles , which could do with a bit of a clean . |
| 9 | Ma'am when sir when this when this road when these when it is dualled , it will have compl adequate capacity to serve the new settlement and will be the only radial route around Greater York which could do so satisfactorily . |
| 10 | The types of disturbances which could do this are sudden changes in investment , balance of payments crises , changes in the money supply , rapid inflation and the policies designed to curb it , population movements , industrial disputes , or even wars . |
| 11 | No longer need a search for set words be made ; it was now a matter of seeking words , or even deeds , which need do no more than satisfy the minimal essential principles of the law of trusts . |
| 12 | I found a piece of quarter-sawn oak in my wood store , which would do perfectly for the job . |
| 13 | Jim Prior considered it a disastrous Budget which would do nothing to reduce unemployment . |
| 14 | Although the costume designer James Hendy has dressed the cast in disturbingly bright colours and given Katisha fingernails which would do credit to the monstrous Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street , a spokesman said The Mikado had been produced in the spirit of compromise . |
| 15 | He is one of the most exciting one-day players in the world , with footwork which would do credit to Victor Sylvester . |
| 16 | By the end of the 1980s , most of the Ministry of Education 's ingenuity was focused on how to make cuts which would do the least damage . |
| 17 | One minute we are reciting the most orthodox creed and the next minute we are practising a pathetic view of God which would do no credit to a pagan . |
| 18 | But if it were to go up and up and up the blood would become absolutely saturated with sugar which would do us no good at all . |
| 19 | The planners tried to devise one which would do the least damage to the existing street pattern . |
| 20 | In 1936 , Bertrand Russell , after rehearsing the expected consequences of a new war , posed the question : ‘ Can we imagine any great modern war which would do more good than harm ? ’ |
| 21 | Taxes raised on what is reckoned to be the world 's largest untaxed industry would help governments spend money on treatment and education , which would do more good than the billions currently spent on attempting to throttle the criminal supply of drugs of all sorts . |
| 22 | Within a year or two the government ( of whichever party ) is expected to put to Parliament a radical reform which would do away with the charade of having to prove marriage breakdown . |
| 23 | Brezhnev himself probably hoped Afghanistan would be a swift , successful operation , like Czechoslovakia in 1968 , which would do no lasting damage to Russia 's world standing . |
| 24 | Instead of a plot of intertwined complication , which would do nicely for a book in which its unravelling was the whole of the matter , you might well find that a plot which consisted of only one major twist or deception would suit you best . |
| 25 | A servant arrived with some freshly made jus de citron and for the next half-hour the three of them remained with heads bent over the materials which would do so much to enhance Félix 's English collection . |
| 26 | In 1986 the then current team started work towards a system which would do automatic or semi-automatic query expansion by using terms extracted from records which the user had seen and judged relevant . |
| 27 | Journalists sought to divide universities into ‘ premier league ’ universities which would do research and teaching at a high level , and the others . |
| 28 | Assuming it was impractical to produce immediately a system which would do everything that personnel management wanted , which were the most important factors ? |
| 29 | How distressed and worried is industry in those regions that we might mistakenly have a Labour Government , which would do so much damage to inward investment ? |
| 30 | It is a classic example of the waste of local taxpayers ' money by a foolish council which would do much better to spend the money on the services for which it is statutorily responsible . |