Example sentences of "[noun] in which it [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 With respect to Lloyd L.J. , when the creditor is content to leave it to the debtor to obtain the surety 's signature in circumstances in which it should have been aware that undue influence might come into play , it is not necessary to establish that the debtor was acting as agent for the bank .
3 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
4 This chapter has had the modest aim of explaining only the kind of way in which it must have happened .
5 The only way in which it could have been avoided was for de Gaulle to change his style of leadership .
6 This masterpiece lacks its head ; but if we look from the hawk-priestess to some marble heads of the later sixth century we see the beginning and end of the tradition in which it must have been made .
7 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 .
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