Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The device ended on a sour note from the consumer standpoint in 1974 , however , when the dollar underwent an increase in value which ought to have triggered a price reduction but somehow failed to do so . |
| 2 | The company say the safety of their staff is paramount , they 'll even bring in a jeweller to remove rings which may have become a fixture over the years . |
| 3 | The Jockey Club is hoping to make better progress elsewhere , by making trainers report anything which may have affected a horse 's running — good or bad -as happens in Ireland . |
| 4 | Cases of illness and other extenuating circumstances which may have affected a student 's performance overall or in an individual assessment or examination should normally be dealt with through the centres regulations and by discussion of individual cases with the HCIMA moderator prior to the Assessment/Examination Board Meeting . |
| 5 | Both men made for the Mediterranean eventually , for reasons which may have involved a respite from British miseries and injustice . |
| 6 | We regret that there was a typographical error in one of the calculations which may have created a problem . |
| 7 | Their conduct amounted to insulting behaviour ( it insulted the women ! ) which may have occasioned a breach of the peace ( the partners of the women might have beaten up the two male lovers ) . |
| 8 | His trousers and shirt ( an old-fashioned shirt of striped flannel which should have had a collar but did not ) were motleyed with all sorts of paint and a welter of dirt and sweat . |
| 9 | She was standing amidst a pile of bouquets , mostly pink and red roses which must have cost a fortune at this season , and chrysanthemums . |
| 10 | Lavenham , which must have had a population approaching 1,000 and ranked as one of the dozen or so richest towns in the kingdom , went into decline following the death of the great clothier Thomas Spring in 1523 . |
| 11 | Such things are celebrated in his stories with a richness and unction which might appear to make a renegade of Babel and certainly of Levi . |
| 12 | To the south , across a wasteland which might have become a park , is the House of Science . |
| 13 | Furthermore , although there was no shortage of surgical complications which might have formed a focus for psychological discontent , the researchers noted that ‘ even those who had experienced complications tended to underrate their seriousness and to express satisfaction . ’ |
| 14 | In addition to regulating the lives of the Christian subjects of the Merovingian kings — and also to circumscribing the activities of the Jews , the one recognized religious minority in the kingdom — the bishops at least tried to monopolize the local centres and objects of devotion , which might have presented a focus of religious power outside their control . |
| 15 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 16 | All of these 7 patients had had cerebral birth injuries which might have induced a shift of dominance to the right hemisphere . |
| 17 | ‘ Put it down , Carol , it 's not yours , ’ said Melanie in a voice which could have cheered a hockey team on the playing fields of Roedean . |
| 18 | Hope looked keenly at the man , held his gaze a moment — a glance which could have ruled a line straight from eye to eye — and then snapped to attention . |
| 19 | He thinks his team were robbed of a penalty which could have meant a replay . |
| 20 | Here , Green saw an opportunity to negotiate an arrangement which could have resolved a number of problems . |
| 21 | The lack of fully operational IPPs , which could have provided a safeguard against inconsistency , adds to workers ' anxiety that Elizabeth and Helen are being let down . |
| 22 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 23 | was given leave by an overwhelming majority of the House of Commons ( 228 votes to 17 ) to introduce a Bill which would have imposed a requirement of reasonableness where a mistaken belief in consent was alleged . |
| 24 | Guillaume was also disturbed by Modi 's unpredictable and unbusinesslike behaviour : ‘ the mere idea of asking him for a signature , which would have legalized a relationship , seemed ridiculous to me ’ . |
| 25 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 26 | A compromise was put forward by the General , Municipal and Boilermakers union which would have created a register of individual union supporters . |
| 27 | However , it seems unlikely that the British parent did not back Mr Nathan 's proposal , which would have secured a price for Imigran similar to that in Britain . |
| 28 | It has been estimated that an impact which would have excavated a basin the size of , for example , Mare Imbrium ( Figure 6.1 ( a ) ) which is about 800 km diameter , would initially have produced a bowl about 150 km deep . |
| 29 | Crystal Palace chairman Ron Noades was a leading advocate of an enlarged Premier League , which would have sounded a death knell for the Football League . |
| 30 | Most outstanding orders were completed , but two Extra Large Bloomers were cancelled , which would have made a total of five of that class . |