Example sentences of "which would [verb] [vb pp] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frontispiece from a copy of the music from the Peer Gynt suite by Grieg was a beautiful piece of artwork even before it was decorated , so I only arranged some flowers in two of the corners , rather than all the way round , which would have overpowered the original design . |
| 2 | This fell short , however , of the two-thirds majority in the 250-seat Supreme Soviet which would have given the Round Table a free hand to effect constitutional changes . |
| 3 | The measure , which would have involved the first overseas deployment of Japanese forces since 1945 , was condemned by the opposition as unconstitutional ( it was argued that Article 9 of Japan 's post-war Constitution prohibited the country 's participation in acts of collective defence ) and by the governments of many of Japan 's neighbours as an undesirable manifestation of nascent Japanese militarism . |
| 4 | Mike Brearley , the subsequent England captain and a Cambridge graduate with a distinctly academic turn of mind , was revealing in his reasons for turning down the offer , which would have overturned the historical structure of international cricket : ‘ Money apart , Kerry Packer is not my style . |
| 5 | Labour 's trade and industry spokesman Robin Cook accused senior ministers of suppressing documents which would have acquitted the three Matrix Churchill executives of sanctions busting . |
| 6 | Engineers , whose prime objective had been to maximise net revenue , originally had put forward four proposals for the upgrading of the junction , all of which would have made the head-on collision of two trains on a single-track section of line outside the station impossible . |
| 7 | A nice piece of work ; but bear in mind that a much more ambitious measurement , which would have taken the biggest chunk of the Hubble 's observing time , is completely beyond the telescope 's present capacity , because it involves seeing faint variable stars in far-off galaxies . |
| 8 | The issue of abortion had been raised earlier in the month when , on June 23 , Bush vetoed legislation which would have lifted the federal ban on funding medical research which used tissue from abortions . |
| 9 | A dispute over the shareholding of a merged company which would have dominated the European aviation scene proved the main stumbling block . |
| 10 | The ‘ we ’ was a non-political reference to Britain as a nation , as opposed to a partisan reference to the Party which would have undermined the factual nature of the non-political . |
| 11 | I thought I heard something but then the oaf of a guide urged his horse back , shouting out questions which would have roused the dead . |
| 12 | These losses all exceed what would be ‘ expected ’ from the areas ' detailed industrial structure ( which would have forecast the greatest rates of decline in Gwent , West Glamorgan and South Yorkshire ) , and the balances can be mapped as ‘ differential shifts ’ ( Figure 5.3B ) . |
| 13 | The Assembly on Jan. 21 voted against acceptance of Havel 's constitutional reform , which would have guaranteed the two republics ( the Czech Lands and Slovakia ) the right of veto over any new constitution . |
| 14 | During the course of March , however , anti-abortionists attempted to enact laws in Guam and Idaho , either of which would have forced the Supreme Court to decide upon the legality of the core of the Roe v. Wade judgment . |
| 15 | While Blakeney and five other members of the fascist grand council accepted these terms , Rotha Lintorn Orman dug her heels in and with other members narrowly defeated the proposals , which would have abolished the independent status of the BF . |