Example sentences of "[noun] which could [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I always wondered if they were his demons or familiars which could scuttle along the walls to listen for treason and search out conspiracy . |
| 2 | They were organizations which could operate on the one hand on the electorate and on the other on the MPs , thus directly influencing policy . |
| 3 | Such individuals , who would be described as good readers , are able to use the preceding context to reduce the number of possible words which could occur at the end of the sentence , making use of many sources of information and not relying exclusively upon any one source . |
| 4 | Marketing activity is being targeted on central and eastern Europe and the Company considering setting up an office in Seoul to take advantage of new business opportunities which could arise from the signing of a bilateral agreement between the UK and Korean Governments . |
| 5 | I have recently been involved in preliminary discussion with a private sector developer , and with British Coal , concerning two separate projects which could lead to the provision of serviced development land . |
| 6 | Voluntary tagging may also be adopted for sheep which could benefit from the positive identification of their flock of origin , such as pedigree animals or breeding females from farms operating under specific health schemes . |
| 7 | There was , however , a greater awareness of the need to develop a framework of rules which could operate in the interests of the world community as a whole — against terrorism or narcotics , for instance — and a greater readiness to establish relations with traditionally conservative states , such as the Arab monarchies , as well as with those that claimed to adhere to Marxism-Leninism . |
| 8 | As was suggested above , there were , within the internal development of psychoanalysis , new findings which necessitated a new conceptualization which could account for the compulsion to repeat unpleasurable experiences . |
| 9 | One of the potentially most significant developments in the period of glasnost and perestroika was the setting up of a constitutional review committee which could comment on the constitutional legality of legislation passed by the Congress of People 's Deputies or the Supreme Soviet and decrees issued by the President . |
| 10 | To create new vehicles of communication in this context meant creating a system of broadcasting which could survive outside the duopoly yet one which would not fundamentally damage the ecology of the system . |
| 11 | A structural appraisal of the building identified a number of potentially serious defects which could arise in the event of fire . |
| 12 | He attempted to preserve from what he called the ‘ growing appetites of sacrilegious cormorants ’ Church revenues which could pay for the education of talented children of poor families . |
| 13 | There are several diagnostic messages which could appear on the screen . |
| 14 | Theodora wondered whether it was a room which could cope with the demands of the modern world . |
| 15 | So , finally , some specific suggestions of changes which could occur in the law : |
| 16 | And I think that could be the area , or the the type of development which could go on the flats . |
| 17 | Mr Rifkind is working on a White Paper which could lead to the privatisation of Britain 's railways and it is likely the issue will be raised by Conservatives tonight . |
| 18 | The Labour Conference , which described itself as a body uniting all forms of workers ' struggle for their rights , called for a national warning strike which would create local bodies which could participate in the struggle against the current government and its reforms . |
| 19 | any internal and external consent procedures which could attach to the offer ; and |
| 20 | His first objective was to restore the authority of Soviet socialism by economic reform and political democratisation ; the second , much more ambitious objective was to reposition Soviet communism in relation to the European tradition from which it had originally emerged , seeking to build up a coalition of working class , religious , ecological , youth and other forces which could unite around the slogan of peace and social justice , if not necessarily Marxism-Leninism . |
| 21 | Deeply kind and warm-hearted , despite her somewhat formidable exterior and a conversational style which could tend towards the monologue , she remained a generous radical to the end , one of the few of her generation who integrated the immense energy and self-confidence of the Ascendancy families into modern Irish life . |
| 22 | Anyway I have a team of red filth which could pass for the Busby scum so now I can re-enact those battles of yore ! |
| 23 | Anti-splash tubing should be used to avoid aspirated material causing bubbles which could escape into the atmosphere . |
| 24 | In Chapter 10 I try to make some suggestions about the form and content of a practical politics of reproduction which could help in the mobilization of the social forces necessary for the implementation of a programme of structural social change . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the authorities did not control the supply of all the eligible liquid assets which could count towards the banks ' liquidity ratio . |
| 26 | Whether such a body would succeed would depend on its organization and funding and whether it was able to create vehicles which could survive in the market-place and be purchased by the public . |
| 27 | In a significant change of emphasis the governors ' meeting on April 13-14 agreed to abolish the ceiling of 6 per cent of bank lending which could go to the former Soviet Union ( corresponding to the Soviet Union 's 6 per cent holding in the EBRD ) , and to allow up to 40 per cent of the EBRD 's lending to go to former Soviet republics . |
| 28 | There are several interesting new developments in the pipeline which could lead to the introduction of more advanced grades of acrylic plastics , opening up new fields of use to them and increasing the rate of growth appreciably . ’ |
| 29 | Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit . |
| 30 | Not so much in appearance as in mood , a fact which could owe to the Gothic-ness of another literary association . |