Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Confounding variables which may have affected urinary albumin excretion were similar within and between our two groups — that is , glycaemic control , weight , and protein intake ( as reflected by urinary urea excretion ) . |
| 2 | This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds . |
| 3 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 4 | The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement . |
| 5 | And so the mutual help and support which should have typified Christian brothers became a stick which the Western church used in the coming crusade to beat Orthodox and infidel alike . |
| 6 | Before leaving London , Belle had been secretary to an hotel keeper and wine merchant , which should have provided useful experience for the venture . |
| 7 | He owned hundreds of acres of land in Wisconsin , Iowa , Florida and Colorado , and was busy in the horse-raising business , which must have involved substantial time , travel and capital . |
| 8 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 9 | Sutton , who missed with another header shortly afterwards , went on to squander two more excellent opportunities which could have kept alive Norwich 's hopes of going to the final for the first time in their history . |
| 10 | Government leaders might have welcomed a united report from the Royal Commission , which could have justified real reform of the Poor Law . |
| 11 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS defended the Institute against allegations that it had been ‘ bought ’ by industry by claiming the IIRS had turned down 15 major industries which could have caused dangerous pollution : he cited the example of a herbicide factory which could have wiped out much of the marine life in Cork Harbour . |
| 12 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |
| 13 | This the Society secured for solicitors conducting investment business exemption from the terms of the EC Investment Services Directive , which would have involved burdensome compliance with associated capital requirements . |
| 14 | It took a couple of seconds to sink in , then she was struggling into the boiler suit , using language , under her breath , which would have made treble word scores in Rude Scrabble . |
| 15 | THERE WERE pumpkins the size of bean bags and groups of onions which would have made fair roofs for Byzantine churches . |
| 16 | Once again Bush endorsed a Republican alternative which would have limited extra coverage to a maximum of 20 weeks , and which included an assortment of tax incentives for businesses and individuals . |
| 17 | There are remains of four levels of wall , the lowest of which would have had wooden gates to protect its main entrance . |
| 18 | With the disappearance of temple-worship as such , this fell into misuse , but a new significance took its place , which would have had particular significance for Leonard 's parents and grandparents . |
| 19 | There were also calls in Tokyo for a revival of proposed legislation , dropped last year , which would have compelled Japanese companies to run their foreign operations to domestic standards . |
| 20 | ‘ The night flight to Beijing makes everything we have said about our disgust and revulsion at the Chinese Government 's action into empty words , ’ complained a congresswoman , Ms Nancy Pelosi , sponsor of the law vetoed by President Bush , which would have allowed Chinese students to remain in the US after their visas expired . |
| 21 | It was the sort of look between us which would have started alert interest in me if I 'd spotted it between others , and I thought I was hear to losing my grip on what I was supposed to be doing , and that I 'd better be more careful . |
| 22 | A squire 's trick , the Corn Laws , banning the import of cheap foreign corn — which would have meant cheap bread in the cities — so that the squires , who grew the stuff on those ancestral lands of theirs could charge as much as they liked for it . |
| 23 | Beyond a yew hedge is the Kitchen Garden which would have supplied fresh vegetables for the household . |
| 24 | However , the coalition was then split again , over telecommunications contracts signed unilaterally by the ( Flemish ) Posts and Telecommunications Minister Marcel Colla ( which would have benefited Flemish companies ) , and over the allocation of television licence fees to the regions ( which Wallonia needed to help pay teachers ' wages — see also p. 38465 ) . |
| 25 | Among the eight with stage I disease , five had tumoural involvement of the stomach which would have required total gastrectomy , a procedure with a high morbidity rate and one that is not justified with a well tolerated , slowly progressing disease . |
| 26 | Canali was referring to the project for a short , sharp Council conceived in 1948–9 , which would have reasserted Catholic unity around the Holy Father after a murderous war , condemned contemporary errors and defined the Assumption by acclamation . |
| 27 | Finally , as regards the poll tax , it was on the grounds that disabled people should be treated as ‘ normal ’ citizens that the government rejected the Allen amendment in the House of Lords , which would have offered extra rebates to poor disabled people to cover the full cost of poll-tax payments wherever they may live . |
| 28 | They will also be examining the Antarctic Minerals Convention , signed in May 1988 , which would have permitted controlled mining and oil exploration . |
| 29 | For a similar reason he has also been forced to cancel the long-cherished project of staging the British première of the Bernd Alois Zimmermann 's epic Die Soldaten — a production which would have focused international attention on Opera North at a point when it is clearly ready for such exposure . |
| 30 | Papers published in other journals which have no such limitation may contain many more references , some of which will have had considerable influence on the authors , and others whose influence is slight . |