Example sentences of "which [modal v] [adv] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters . |
| 2 | This is an expectation which may well have been frustrated in the experimental situation . |
| 3 | The result is that lodes , which may once have been uniform , and continuous , have frequently become twisted and prone to peter out suddenly . |
| 4 | Such ritual brings no hope , and it diverts to barrenness emotions which might otherwise have been fruitful . |
| 5 | For the next week I thought long and hard about undertaking an interview with the Queen Mother which would cover every aspect of her life but the great historical event which had changed it for ever ; which had propelled her and her husband to the throne , had made happy and glorious a reign which might otherwise have been disastrous , yet which was tragically cut short by illness and death , and which in the long run had made her far and away the most loved of all the members of the Royal Family . |
| 6 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 7 | The art of counterfactual analysis consists in formulating probable hypothetical claims which will help us to disentangle the roles played by disparate variables , and this requires a systematic view of the kinds of factors which might plausibly have been different . |
| 8 | The upstairs restaurant was a split-level affair which might once have been elegant . |
| 9 | But he recognised the abominably shredded and mutated head , and the bloodstained and distorted arms that ended in claws which could never have been human . |
| 10 | In the early stages we started off with perhaps Minor schools which could almost have been Major ones , because you were just trying to find any school that had got some kind of life , or interest , or things happening … really in many ways it was rather a matter of chance because of the way it happened at the time . |
| 11 | On 16 October 1991 , after a hearing in chambers to consider wasted costs after the jury in a criminal trial had been discharged and a retrial ordered , Judge MacRae made an order against the appellant , H. , a barrister who had acted as defence counsel at the trial , disallowing ‘ such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the initial trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial … ’ under the provisions of section 19A(1) of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 , as inserted by section 111 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 12 | Eventually , when this somewhat bizarre meeting ended , the judge made an order by which he purported to ‘ disallow such part of the brief fee which would otherwise have been payable on the [ partial ] trial as exceeds what would be the proper enhanced refresher for the retrial . ’ |
| 13 | As the political assimilative into which were absorbed the opinions , convictions and energies which would otherwise have been available to impel Owenism and so to maximise its chances of attaining its goal , industrial democracy , the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill demands attention . |
| 14 | If the application is urgent , eg for a non-molestation injunction under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and there is no judge sitting , the court office will say at what court there is a judge and the application may be made and heard at that court , but the more usual practice is for the application itself to be made in the court which would otherwise have been appropriate , with the papers and order being sent back to that court after the hearing . |
| 15 | Graduated separatism creates a space where women and girls can be free from the burden of men and their persistent sexism long enough to gain confidence and a skill , which would otherwise have been impossible . |
| 16 | Both writers are primarily interested in the ontological and epistemological questions raised by the Catholic view of God , and both found in nervous tension a justification for modest technical experimentation as well as a tool for exploring aspects of reality which would otherwise have been difficult to treat outside the context of philosophical discourse . |
| 17 | Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question . |
| 18 | The advantage of using a kit is that much of the work will already have been done , and all you have to do is to assemble the components , which will often have been pre-drilled . |
| 19 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |
| 20 | Lord Lawson , in a speech on Monday night , the timing of which can hardly have been welcome to the Government , called for stringent public expenditure cuts and immediate tax increases to a total of £6 billion . |