Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] which [pers pn] could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you join ‘ pony club ’ there are a variety of different activities which you could go on , for example there is show jumping which involves you deciding what height jumps you would like to jump , normally the classes range from two feet high and up . |
| 2 | Since we now have three different measures for the value of a country 's total output , we also have three different names which we could use to describe that output . |
| 3 | So they devoted themselves to promoting political movements which they could imagine would still reach the Milnerian goal . |
| 4 | There was , however , always one matter for which he had a personal responsibility which he could share with no one else . |
| 5 | Perhaps Edward indeed was reluctant to embark on that wholesale hanging ; or may merely have assessed that this way he would force the Scots army into a rash and costly attack which he could repulse , and then get Berwick 's surrender . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the twentieth century , Poor Law administrators were still noting that older women seemed more able than older men to survive without any apparent source of income , because of the domestic services which they could perform ( Roebuck and Slaughter , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | The novel is brief — 100 pages or so — and a remarkably effective narrative which you could get through in one sitting . |
| 8 | Faced with the prospect of growing structural unemployment and reflecting an analysis that structural unemployment would be a growing feature of industrial society , the work-force at Lucas Aerospace proposed 150 socially useful products which they could design and manufacture as an alternative to facing degradation and suffering in the dole queue . |
| 9 | The borrowed cat was a wonderful balancer , and Mildred felt rather disloyal as she found herself thinking how nice it would be to have a well-behaved sleek black cat which she could feel proud of . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There are also some helpful storybooks which you could use with your child — see the Helplist at the end of this leaflet . |
| 12 | Encourage your friend to contact Phobic Action ( see box ) who organise self-help groups which you could attend . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At that time many of us did not fully appreciate the merit of exploring shared values and issues , largely I suspect because there was an absence of a specific and measurable goal which we could work towards . |
| 15 | The model illustrated has the facility to take a heater and a separate thermostat if required , lights and a pump , with a spare terminal which you could use for a power filter . |
| 16 | They had the right religion , they were hard-working , and had small families which they could afford to keep in decent circumstances . |
| 17 | Be that as it may , the real question at issue is whether the provision was intended simply to provide a remedy in respect of proprietary rights that either entitled the proprietor to have some entry made on the register or entitled the proprietor to have some entry removed from the register or whether the provision should be construed as creating a new cause of action entitling the court to make rectification orders as it might in its discretion think fit in favour of persons who would not under substantive law , apart from paragraph ( b ) , have any proprietary rights which they could assert against the registered proprietor or chargee . |
| 18 | Given the absence of any mass movement , the only activity which they could propose was street marches . |
| 19 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 20 | Without influential subjects serving about the pope , the king had to enlist the utmost support which he could muster among the cardinals in order to shape the papal response to his demands . |
| 21 | Unlike his brother Clarence , he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age . |
| 22 | Unlike his brother Clarence , he acquired no ready-made affinity which he could exploit when he came of age . |
| 23 | Prehistoric communities and pioneers in new territories concentrated on auriferous alluvial deposits which they could work in small groups or even as individuals with only the most rudimentary equipment . |
| 24 | It was work towards which all Ramsey 's training and expectations led as the right contribution which he could make to the life of his Church and to that of Christendom . |
| 25 | Before the announcement , Baker had an unprecedented meeting on Feb. 14 , at a previously closed nuclear weapons development laboratory , Chelyabinsk-70 , with scientists there , who outlined suggestions for civilian work which they could do for the West . |
| 26 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 27 | Karl Leyser has shown that this was a ‘ patrimonially ’ , not a ‘ bureaucratically ’ , governed society ; rule was by the personal presence of an itinerant ruler , the exercise of his patronage , the close bonds which he could establish with his followers , and the ceremonial projection of his sacrality . |
| 28 | Watch makers were forced at one time to accept either bread tickets or else take payment in cheap watches which they could sell only at a loss . |
| 29 | But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand . |
| 30 | ‘ I had thought that the 1950s was a fairly stagnant , dull time which I could use as a sort of launch pad for the more interesting periods of post-Independence history . |