Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] which [pers pn] would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intrinsic nature of a thing is the whole detailed character which it would share with anything else exactly like it , so far as that character is entirely a matter of what the thing is like , so to speak , within its own boundaries , while its intrinsic properties are the various discriminable elements of its intrinsic nature . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 4 | Our proposals were that SERPS should be abolished and that the second pension should come from a variety of new options in the private sector which we would make available . |
| 5 | However speculative my development of the theory of memes may be , there is one serious point which I would like to emphasize once again . |
| 6 | Such clusters will provide support for teachers and for pupils and will create economies of scale which will allow schools to provide extra resources which they would find it difficult to fund out of their individual budget . |
| 7 | The building of any further houses was resisted on the grounds that the additional families which they would attract might eventually become a charge on the poor rates during periods of economic depression . |
| 8 | The fact that this rarely happens ( or , where it does , we are not told ) , reveals the moral repugnance which we would feel at such coercive action . |
| 9 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
| 10 | The measure expresses a mean between saving and lashing-out , and it has remained a feature of my own Scots-Irish domestic economy which I would bet is widespread in northern parts . |
| 11 | Johnson once described the ideal happiness which he would choose , if he were regardless of futurity . |
| 12 | I have seen some very attractively variegated mint which I would like to grow in the flower border , but my mother says it will take over the whole garden . |
| 13 | Again I felt fear and panic well up inside me , but again decided that this could not help in any way and would simply be a waste of the valuable energy which I would need to get through this difficult time . |
| 14 | He had a long stick which he would place under their legs when doing the high kick to indicate where it should reach . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | to say that in fairness to them , so what we would respectfully submit is that your Lordship having assessed the damages and erm , together with interest other than court of protection costs that the figure which we had mentioned and , and adjourn the matter for consideration of a structured settlement erm and that 's the first figure erm , that , the , the second thing , is that there is money in court er we would ask for a direction of the balance of the money , the balance over and above the money in court which is an extra three hundred and six thousand , three hundred and forty pounds at the present stage be brought into court within a reasonable time which we would note is fourteen days , maybe the defendant would ask longer , we have n't discussed it . |
| 19 | In this respect , San Francisco 's version of the exhibition gains from the proximity of ‘ Collection ’ , that important triptych of paint and collaged material belonging to the museum , in which Rauschenberg rehearsed the full range of the combined techniques which he would employ for the next ten years . |
| 20 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 21 | Of the rest , twenty mentioned various kinds of community-level effects which I would classify as affecting the local way of life . |
| 22 | Forever talking about an important matter which he would discuss on his next leave . |
| 23 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 26 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 27 | Sometimes Hanka Zborowska would go to the grocer and buy a kilo of red beans which they would share with Modigliani , just to make sure they all had something to eat . |
| 28 | When he talks of the ‘ metal landscape ’ he is referring to the world of the train and not to the one of green landscapes which we would expect . |
| 29 | Apart from the huge expense of acceding to the health workers ' demands , defeat for the Government would have brought in its train a series of demands from other workers which it would have found hard to resist . … |
| 30 | we , we can then come back to the court , erm as , as other orders which we would seek and we would seek an order for costs , erm clearly |