Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] which [pers pn] [vb mod] have " in BNC.

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1 There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example .
2 Obviously , Beatrice was enjoying taunting her editor and former lover with her constant references to another man which he would have understood .
3 ‘ I appeal to Dr Kennedy to begin open-minded consultations which he should have initiated last December . ’
4 That this can be done is borne out in practice , and it is sometimes noted that , in the course of treatment for some long-standing chronic condition , patients will re-experience old symptoms which they may have forgotten about .
5 She has been discovered by the feminists , who have rescued her from being seen as a minor pastoralist ; but in certain cases , they have also subject her to psycho-symbolic sexual analysis which she would have loathed , or blamed her for not having cared more for sexual politics or stood out for lesbian sexuality .
6 Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure .
7 In the interbank market , banks offer surplus deposits which they might have to other banks .
8 Obviously you can have photocopies or laser prints copied on to this material , but I have here some pens and a box of blank acetates which you will have the opportunity later to use if you so wish .
9 As for those stubborn areas which you may have thought beyond the reach of any cleaner — the stained or mouldy grouting round the back of the basin , the bath and the shower , plugholes and taps — you 'll find that the Steamatic 's powerful cleaning action makes a tremendous difference .
10 But here , precisely , is the problem ; even ( or especially ) from this radical perspective , the women 's behaviour is seen as inauthentic , not truly transgressive : in their use of men 's clothing and the dildo they were trying to imitate precisely that masculine order which they should have been escaping or at least repudiating .
11 I can not think of anything that happened that day which I would have wished otherwise .
12 You have got to train that person which you could have been doing for years and
13 If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned .
14 From large carpet areas to those tricky areas which you may have thought impossible to get really clean — the Steamatic enables you to clean them all with the minimum of fuss .
15 As emphasised in an Equal Opportunities Commission report , just because people are doing a good job which they may have chosen to do , does not mean they should be ignored and left to cope alone :
16 It would have been defeat over what I now knew for certain was a perfectly reasonable and legal procedure which I would have found hard to handle .
17 The defendant submitted , consistently with the conduct of the defence at the trial , that the trial judge ought not to have excluded his evidence , or any other admissible evidence which he could have elicited by cross-examination , tending to show that Paulette was addicted to drugs in the form of cocaine and ganja cigarettes , the defendant 's object being to show that Paulette 's conduct just before the shooting rendered more credible the now irrelevant defence of provocation and the defence of accident .
18 Changing dates , numbers travelling or holiday type are major changes which we may have to treat as cancellation and subsequent re-booking .
19 We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance4 allows you to drive or use .
20 We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any8 accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance allows you to drive or use .
21 We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance allows you to drive or use .
22 We will insure you for all sums which you may have to pay for death of , or injury to , other people or damage to their property , as a result of any accident involving any vehicle which your certificate of motor insurance allows you to drive or use .
23 Upon a sale of land the purchaser is normally entitled to have produced to him and to investigate the deeds recording previous transactions in the land going back for fifteen years ( Law of Property Act 1969 : formerly the period was thirty years ) ; and though this period is sometimes reduced by agreement , the shortening of the period throws a risk on the purchaser , who is not only bound by all legal interests in the land which actually exist whether he discovers them or not , but also by all equitable interests which he would have discovered if he had insisted on an investigation for the longer period .
24 It could have resisted payment , and the revenue had no means other than the taking of legal proceedings which it might have used to enforce payment .
25 Between the Arch and the back of the Admiralty proper runs a small unnamed side-street which I must have passed a hundred times without really noticing .
26 You can say that if they do n't keep to the agreed rules of the drama , then the magic will start to fail ; if they climb up the wall-bars when you have asked them not to , you can say that the magic only works when their feet are touching the ground , thus using the fiction of the drama to limit the space they work in and remind them through a dramatic device of those rules which you will have agreed before the lesson begins ( see also the section on " Control " in Chapter 4 ) .
27 The fact that the plaintiff may have a cast-iron claim against his own solicitor for the full damages which he could have recovered against the defendant , is only one and not an overriding factor .
28 The physical contact which He must have had with them when reclining at table ( compare John 13:25 ) and which He obviously never dreamed of disallowing ( Luke 7:38 , 39 ) must have made them feel clean and acceptable ’ ( Nolan 1976:39 ) .
29 Later , confronted with the ambiguously dominating Attwater who kings it over the natives on his atoll , one of them ‘ broke into a piece of the chorus of a comic song which he must have heard twenty years before in London : meaningless gibberish that , in that hour and place ’ , seemed hateful as a blasphemy : ‘ Hikey , pikey , crikey , fikey , chillinga — wallaba dory . ’
30 Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ .
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