Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] which [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I doubt if any survey has ever been carried out without the researcher having some regrets at the analysis stage about some questions which could have been phrased better , but the good researcher makes sure in advance that these regrets are as few as possible . |
| 2 | Jonah , disliking the task for unexplained reasons which might have had something to do with a fear of being stoned to death by the partying Ninevites , ran away . |
| 3 | Thus we have the permitting conditions : the lack of parental control which might have brought the youth into more conventional alignments rather than setting him free to explore the more extravagant possibilities of a sporting career . |
| 4 | Miss Logan halted , initially in surprise , for it appeared that Miss Fergusson had lost her footing on a little stretch of solid rock which should have afforded no peril . |
| 5 | Adapting data from known insulin resistant states such as obesity and non-insulin dependent diabetes , O'Dea has recently theorised on the nature of metabolic adaptations which might have favoured survival in Australian Aborigines in the context of their traditional hunter-gatherer diet , where ‘ feasts ’ on wild animals such as kangaroos were characteristically high in protein and relatively low in fat and carbohydrate . |
| 6 | In conjunction with the technique of manual lymph drainage , massage can help the body to get rid of harmful toxins which may have accumulated . |
| 7 | On Monday 18 November the DCAC was faced by a number of spontaneous demonstrations which could have resulted in trouble . |
| 8 | The flow of information between a lower level and a higher level can be handled in a number of different ways which will have markedly different consequences for the speech recognition task . |
| 9 | In the late 1980s , the need for education about the dangers of transmitting the AIDS virus justified a degree of public explicitness which would have been unthinkable in previous decades . |
| 10 | However , ideology apart , there is considerable evidence of a degree of senior bureaucratic bungling and the suppression of scientific reports which would have been embarrassing to the senior members of the bureaucracy if Komarov ( 1981 ) as the chief informant is to be believed , along with other writers such as Cherenvisinov ( 1964 ) , Goldman ( 1972 ) or Kirby ( 1972 ) . |
| 11 | The Minoans were capable of producing a large surplus of olive oil which could have been exported ; some of the oil filling the store-rooms of the Knossos Labyrinth at the time of the 1380 BC fire may have been awaiting export . |
| 12 | However , in practice it appears that the court has a discretion to allow the case to continue as if begun under Ord. 53 provided this will not unfairly deprive the respondent of some protection which would have been enjoyed if the case had been begun under Ord. 53 . |
| 13 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 14 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 15 | My feet were secured by a length of electric cable which could have come from a table lamp . |
| 16 | I mean , you suggested the philosophy , you suggested that the term has become devalued because of unfortunate associations which may have been imposed by , by men . |
| 17 | The provisos set out in a lease cover a range of miscellaneous matters which can have an important bearing on the lease . |
| 18 | A reputable salon will suggest a course of sunbed sessions which should have the bride looking healthy and tanned in time for her wedding day . |
| 19 | Engels , like Marx , was particularly interested in the historical significance of traditional communities which might have retained , in much later historical periods , something of their ‘ gentile ’ constitution . |
| 20 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 21 | In Frome , as elsewhere , a large proportion of the population lacked the general state of good health which would have gone some way towards combating these killer diseases . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Gilligan 's ( 1982 ) extension of psychological subject matter and theory has shown that these are not the only kinds of feminist psychology which can have an important impact . |
| 25 | The draw ceremony was conducted seductively by Sophia Loren , operatically by Pavarotti , efficiently by Joseph Blatter , the Fifa general-secretary , and set against a background of studied chaos which would have done credit to a film by Fellini . |
| 26 | He flicks through his computer in search of the file marked : ‘ Over-confidence ; The Perils Of , ’ and he produces a stream of anodyne phrases which might have been scripted at Anfield or Old Trafford : ‘ Take nothing for granted … great respect for the opposition … must get it right on the day . ’ |
| 27 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 28 | Let's hear it for the Great British Biopic , based on the sort of real-life story which might have leapt straight from the pages of the tabloids , and which in some cases actually did : Ruth Ellis , who shot her feckless lover and paid the ultimate price , in Dance with a Stranger ; Sid Vicious , the smack-addled punk who stabbed his girlfriend in Sid and Nancy ; Joe Orton , the homosexual playwright whose lover battered him to death with a hammer in Prick Up Your Ears ; Josslyn Hay , twenty-second Earl of Errol , who was shot to death in Kenya , in White Mischief ; Christine Keeler , John Profumo and Stephen Ward in Scandal . |
| 29 | As we have seen , the trade union movement either could not or would not show the forbearance required , in the national interest , of a great and powerful institution ; nor , for that matter that sense of enlightened self-interest which would have told it that the morality of forbearance was its own best policy . |
| 30 | ( 5 ) , on the other hand , seems to call into question the existence of any conditions which could have led to someone leaving Pa unattended : the speaker can not understand how anyone could have done such a thing . |