Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which it would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 However , BA is now expected to announce a revised partnership deal in which it would gain a 20% stake worth about $340m .
2 Cruttenden 's data also tend to confirm that congruity has a greater effect when it is paired with gender cue , which is the condition in which it would seem , a priori , to be less useful .
3 While the consortium had offered to put up £2,500 million in private capital the project would also have involved ERL taking over a £1,000 million government loan already allocated to BR to improve commuter services along the route , a further £400 million investment by BR ( in exchange for which it would have had a 50 per cent stake in commuter services along the route ) and a government " capital grant " of £500 million .
4 Neither could have foreseen the circumstances under which it would take place .
5 The improved position of Congress ( I ) was of particular importance as the Lok Sabha convened on Feb. 24 for the session in which it would discuss the controversial direction of the radical anti-protectionist budget introduced on Feb. 29 by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh .
6 The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’
7 I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd .
8 The government , however , was reluctant to co-operate with a US plan by which it would use some of its abundant currency reserves to tackle the Third-World debt crisis .
9 The PLO failed to secure a UN-supervised peace conference to which it would send a delegation to represent " the Palestinian people " [ see pp. 38167 ] .
10 Those on board were aware that they were approaching the point at which it would have to swing east and head inevitably back to Europe .
11 The ILP leadership , feeling it had a mandate from the Easter Conference , made preparations for a Special Conference at which it would make : a recommendation for disaffiliation , and for the re-organisation of the ILP as an independent Socialist Party with a programme aiming at a decisive change from Capitalism to Socialism .
12 Theodora was aware of an intimacy into which it would have been impossible to intrude .
13 In addition , an important function of the RAC would be its financial responsibility specifically for rural development for which it would receive and disburse hypothecated funds from LEAs and Trusts and from which it would be empowered to make deficiency payments to the relevant providing body where deficits occurred .
14 Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked .
15 Finally , they should be complex — meaning that they should be definite , with a full analytical description of why the particular ideology is appropriate , even specifying conditions under which it would cease to be appropriate .
16 Shortly after the 29th Division began landing , officers walked unmolested to the village of Krithia some 3km/2mls inland and to the 180m/600ft high summit of Achi Baba , commanding positions from which it would have been easy to repel any Turkish counter-attack .
17 It can not therefore have failed to become an important centre in its own right after the administrative changes introduced in the fourth century and it may have been promoted to the rank of civitas capital , although there is no evidence for the civitas over which it would have ruled .
18 But the evidence on which he should base his advice to me is the same evidence on which it would have been appropriate for me to form my own judgment .
19 But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute
20 Firstly , the Bank of England ceased to announce in advance the rate at which it would provide assistance .
21 The general safety requirement is encapsulated in s10(2) which provides : ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section consumer goods fail to comply with the general safety requirement if they are nor reasonably safe having regard to all the circumstances , including ( a ) the manner in which , and purposes for which , the goods are being or would be marketed , the get-up of the goods , the use of any mark in relation to the goods and any instructions or warnings which are given or would be given with respect to the keeping , use or consumption of the goods ; ( b ) any standards of safety published by any person either for goods of a description which applies to the goods in question or for matters relating to goods of that description ; and ( c ) the existence of any means by which it would have been reasonable ( taking into account the cost , likelihood and extent of any improvement ) for the goods to have been made safer .
22 However , that was a matter which SACHR raised with me only this week and made it clear that it was a subject to which it would return .
23 But it does add : ‘ The very purpose of our effort to strengthen conventional forces is to prevent a situation in which it would become necessary to use nuclear weapons to stop a conventional attack ’ .
24 R admitted that he took the equipment to parties and converted the cocaine into a form in which it would vaporise and be inhaled .
25 The amount of rent charged would be a matter within the jurisdiction of the tribunal , a matter on which it would have the power to err .
26 The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or " inflationary " expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor .
27 ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed .
28 For each exchange , supply a context in which it would make sense .
29 Erm he decided to stage a fire in which it would make it appear as though er this was a result of some sort of erm armed confrontation between law enforcement and his group .
30 Thus they are doubtful as to whether or not SSE is likely to be superficial ; about whether it is too time-consuming ; about the extent to which it would reveal matters which could threaten professional reputations or harm relationships and whether any evidence produced as a result of SSE would be sufficiently objective .
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