Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] which [pers pn] would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 2 | The legal basis was being created for workers to set up their own professional , cultural and leisure-time organizations through which they would become integrated with the rest of society . |
| 3 | You are bound to have many questions you would like to ask , as well as certain anxieties about which you would like your mind set at rest . |
| 4 | With many populations we are already aware that the units fall into sub-groups of which we would wish to take account in any sampling . |
| 5 | Neither could have foreseen the circumstances under which it would take place . |
| 6 | ‘ The only circumstances in which I would anticipate the use of the remedies of certiorari and mandamus would be in the event , which I hope is unthinkable , of the panel acting in breach of the rules of natural justice — in other words , unfairly . |
| 7 | And what more , what more should we expect from a Party that is led nationally by a man who , in 1983 , says , there are no circumstances in which I would order or permit the firing of a nuclear weapon , which leads somebody to say , Kinnock 's lust for power is so great that he 's prepared to ditch any principle to get it . |
| 8 | The British Defence White Paper of 1958 laid down with surprising confidence the circumstances in which it would unleash nuclear weapons : ‘ It must be well understood that if Russia were to launch a major attack , even with conventional weapons only , the West would have to hit back with strategic nuclear weapons . ’ |
| 9 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 10 | Moreover , he did not envisage any circumstances in which he would exercise a right to intervene . |
| 11 | On Nov. 6 ( when details of and the timetable for the party leadership election were announced ) he repeated , however , his oft-repeated formulation that he could foresee no circumstances in which he would stand against Thatcher for the leadership . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , at least in public , he reiterated his previous position that there were no foreseeable circumstances in which he would challenge Mrs Thatcher . |
| 13 | Heseltine declares that he can not foresee the circumstances in which he would challenge her for the leadership . |
| 14 | He means that he can not foresee the circumstances in which he would win . |
| 15 | ( b ) State the circumstances in which you would use : |
| 16 | From our discussions we understand that in reviewing the European market you have three major criteria for selecting companies and organisations with which you would choose to work together , namely : |
| 17 | There is so much to tell you but I will try and share some of the things for which I would appreciate your prayers . |
| 18 | But the remaining 43 were to be elected by local and national politicians on a vocational basis : that is , they had to be elected to five panels for which they would qualify by having the requisite vocational expertise — administrative , cultural — educational , labour , industrial and commercial , and agricultural . |
| 19 | Much of what is approved of may match up in their self-image with how they see their strengths and qualities of which they would like more . |
| 20 | True scientists are always willing to state the conditions under which they would abandon their theories and to accept a refutation when the conditions turn out to hold . |
| 21 | Whether a single lift costing little more than half the balance lift is advisable or not can only be determined on working out the details of the site where it is required to be constructed and the conditions under which it would have to be worked . |
| 22 | Finally , they should be complex — meaning that they should be definite , with a full analytical description of why the particular ideology is appropriate , even specifying conditions under which it would cease to be appropriate . |
| 23 | Shortly after the 29th Division began landing , officers walked unmolested to the village of Krithia some 3km/2mls inland and to the 180m/600ft high summit of Achi Baba , commanding positions from which it would have been easy to repel any Turkish counter-attack . |
| 24 | A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 . |
| 25 | It now runs quite well apart from two problems on which we would like your advice . |
| 26 | It can not therefore have failed to become an important centre in its own right after the administrative changes introduced in the fourth century and it may have been promoted to the rank of civitas capital , although there is no evidence for the civitas over which it would have ruled . |
| 27 | The whole thing hidden beneath layers of ice and rock , untraceable from the air : a flexible and formidable system of defences from which they would launch their attack on the Seven . |
| 28 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 29 | The success subjects should be expected to have in this matching process and the situations under which they would change their target levels are not clear . |
| 30 | Thus a course tutor may invite workshop members to identify their own learning needs , to write learning objectives and consider ways in which they would like to learn the new skills or information they need . |