Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [det] which [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a number of reasons for this which could take all day to expound , but the main reason and the one I shall elaborate is that industrialised agriculture nearly always consumes more energy than it produces and is living off capital in the form of fossil fuels . |
| 2 | ‘ The Bill provides no genuine concessions at all which might protect pools jobs , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ( The elements of these which would reduce costs — such as the better transport system , the cheaper access to all kinds of services and so forth — are elements of agglomeration economies . ) |
| 4 | What the doctrine actually achieves is a middle way of a rather different type to that which may have originally been conceived . |
| 5 | The possibility of some form of compilation report has been mooted , but there is a strong case against this which may prevail . |
| 6 | And as I said , I spoke to the supervisor , switchboard supervisor , Di Combes , when we were setting up the course , and asked her what sort of things she would like to put across at a course like this which would make the switchboard 's job easier . |
| 7 | First , any traditional mistrust of credit as such which may have inclined people towards its close regulation must be dissociated from a practical concern about genuine risks of abuse , exploitation or harmful confusion . |
| 8 | What was decided in regard to the applicant Handscomb was that where the first review date predicated an equivalent determinate sentence well in excess of that which could have been imposed under established sentencing practice , there was impugnable unreasonableness . |
| 9 | In his review of man , vegetation and the sediment yields of rivers Douglas suggested that little account had previously been taken of human influence and his studies of rates of erosion in a wide range of climatic conditions in eastern Australia suggested that the present sediment yields are far in excess of those which may have prevailed in the geological past . |
| 10 | Police reports alleged that raids on Ershad 's residence after his arrest on Dec. 12 [ see p. 37907 ] had revealed assets in excess of those which could have been expected from a presidential income , as well as large quantities of unlicensed firearms . |
| 11 | Although further research would be necessary to establish the extent to which sexual practices which limit the risk of HIV transmission overlap with those which would prevent transmission of hepatitis B virus , the rise in hepatitis B infection reported in homosexual men is also suggestive of increased unsafe sex in this group . |
| 12 | Take particular trouble with any which might present you with difficulties and have a credible reply worked out to sidestep -problem areas . |
| 13 | He played Bobby Dupea with explosive sensitivity , as a promising musician who rejects a career to become an oil-rigger ; a rebel who , like Nicholson himself , had the chance of taking a particular course in life which would have provided him with comfort and stability , but chose a different route to that which might have been expected of him . |
| 14 | We may note that although Moore thinks that in some sense what one should do is what looks most likely to be one 's duty in the sense of that which will produce the best consequences , it is unclear what meaning he can ascribe to this ‘ should ’ . |
| 15 | It suggests not only that prevailing approaches to the subject involve the selection and presentation of knowledge which legitimates the status quo and the omission of that which might challenge it , but also that the very organisation of the curriculum into discrete units militates against the asking of the sorts of questions that might indicate that the world could be different . |
| 16 | A burden for some which will become a breaking point . |
| 17 | The concept of the Created God completely rules out the exclusion from the Alternative Religion of any part whatsoever of humankind , whether it be by reason of race , colour , sex , or for any other reason at all which may create an identifiable group or individual . |