Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [Wh det] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some present detailed programmes for change which will require legislation , for instance , legislation to improve the levels of pension and older people 's access to employment . |
| 2 | Requests for copy which would occupy ten columns or less should be satisfied within four hours . |
| 3 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 4 | Other " get out clauses " included requests for information which might involve the supply of " unfinished documents " . |
| 5 | They were understandably concerned to steer a middle course between over-confidence which might lead to an excessive number of candidates and realism which might have a restrictive effect . |
| 6 | You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present . |
| 7 | But humbly regret that the Gracious Speech seeks to continue economic policies which have caused a deep and damaging recession , falling output and investment , rising unemployment and record levels of business failures and house repossessions ; and call upon the Government to adopt a programme for recovery which will encourage investment and rising levels of employment by the promotion of sustained investment in the manufacturing sector , by encouraging industrial innovation through the application of science and technology and by fully exploiting the potential of the neglected regions through vigorous regional policies , and by providing new opportunities in education and training which are crucial to Britain 's economic recovery and future prosperity . |
| 8 | But his distaste went deeper than irritation at an unwelcome complication to his inquiry , at the bizarre intrusion of irrationality into a job so firmly rooted in the search for evidence which would stand up in court , documented , demonstrable , real . |
| 9 | This can be the outcome of ( a ) a process which selects only those facts which prove a given case , and omits others — an intentional distortion of evidence ; or ( b ) an unwitting omission , a failure to carry out the exhaustive search for evidence which should characterise historical study . |
| 10 | Club members — they have all either undergone open heart surgery themselves or have helped loved ones through the ordeal — display this zest for life which would encourage anyone faced with the same ordeal . |
| 11 | Of all the varieties of patronage at the disposal of Scottish politicians , the most useful were those connected with taxation , for , quite apart from the undeniable opportunities for profit which might accrue to an official charged with the collection of public revenues , through his possession of such monies between the time of collection and the time of accounting for the receipts , the ability to increase or moderate one 's zeal was in itself a valuable asset for officers who were themselves often intimately involved in the political and social life of their communities . |
| 12 | Equally at home with highbrow or no-brow cinema , Kael is unapologetic about feeding a sweet tooth for vulgarity which can seem incongruous in the New Yorker 's staid pages . |
| 13 | On the other hand ( see page 46 ) reasoning with children involves giving them a great deal of attention which might reinforce and maintain , if not increase , the quarrelsomeness . |
| 14 | But the important consideration for prevention is the identification of methods of intervention which will make serious depressive illnesses less likely to occur . |
| 15 | Here too there are suppressed assumptions about the proper methods of science which will concern us in the next chapter . |
| 16 | It senses the danger and almost instantaneously cuts off the power with a speed of reaction which can prevent a tragedy occurring . |
| 17 | The main danger in the staff reaction is that there might be a severe loss of morale which can affect the care of other patients . |
| 18 | The Company , from its very first voyage , exported bullion rather than English products and , when economists complained that this would lead to a loss of bullion which would cause deflation and depression in England , the Company replied that it exported between 50 and 90 per cent of its pepper to countries in northern Europe which paid four or five times as much silver as the Company paid in India , so that on balance its activities substantially increased the amount of bullion in the country . |
| 19 | Under certain circumstances indeed water would be taken upwards by the lift-for instance , if the bulk of the traffic was downwards and barges loaded to 65 tons , then each barge passing down would squeeze out into the top pond 3.150 cu. ft. ( or about ⅓ of a lock ) of water This however is an ideal case and the following statement shews the theoretical gain or loss of water which would occur in working out of these lifts . |
| 20 | Apart altogether from the loss of water which must accrue by the rise of locks , the time saved in passing through the Grand Union Canal must under ordinary circumstances be reduced by not less than say 3 hours . |
| 21 | The ability to recast an expression from one language into the form of another depends on reference to some underlying construct of meaning which may establish a resemblance between expressions which appear very different and a distinction between expressions which appear to resemble each other . |
| 22 | The investigators are conducting a co-ordinated and intensive programme of work which should produce the following benefits : |
| 23 | It was , however , Geoffrey Dawson , editor of The Times , who , in an editorial on 16 September , was the first to suggest that the National Government itself , and not the parties separately , should make an appeal to the country ‘ on a broad programme of reconstruction which will include a tariff ’ . |
| 24 | While all members unanimously agreed the body should not be wound up , a small team has been given the task of drawing up a programme of action which will satisfy the Lib Dems ' requirements . |
| 25 | St William 's Foundation sees the need for a programme of action which will explore new paths , side step old obstacles , find lateral avenues to solution of apparently intractable problems . |
| 26 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 27 | The following is a specimen layout for a typical bill of exchange although there are many different styles of exchange which can satisfy the definition given above . |
| 28 | There is also fear of involvement which could become burdensome especially since many neighbours will have their own worries about relatives . |
| 29 | Following the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , the haulier should be aware of some of the heads of claim which might arise when such a terrible incident occurs . |
| 30 | The uncertainty of the fat child or the onset of puberty which can make swimming baths one of the first circles of hell for the adolescent , so vividly evoked by Kathryn Ensall 's ‘ Girls in Line at the Swimming Baths ’ ( 1988 ) , or the terrifying prospect of the first day at school captured by Shanti Panchal are all expressions of modern sensibility and above all , of childhood and adolescent anxiety , constructed out of an acute embarrassment with themselves and their situation . |