Example sentences of "which would [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Moreover the young hero was never alone ; he always had a pure process , waiting for him , holding the thread of life which would protect him from the flames and the teeth and the dark belly of the monster .
2 Fiat 's defence lawyers hailed the court 's move as a sensible conclusion which would leave it to the court of appeal to determine whether the four defendants should be tried in another city .
3 Mr John Prescott , the Labour transport spokesman , said BR would lose £3.5 billion of public support by 1993 , which would leave it at the bottom of the international league for support and top for fares .
4 The boy was pictured in a stilled movement that clearly represented the brief moment before he reached out and reached down to pluck the flower , a movement which would topple him over the edge to certain death .
5 ITALY , Scotland 's World Cup rivals , must make do without gifted Juventus playmaker Roberto Baggio today when they seek a victory over Malta which would lift them to the top of the qualifying Group I.
6 The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life .
7 Otherwise , the right sombrely heroic quality emerges , but the playing of the movement does not grip the listener as the composer surely intended and Leonskaja 's leisurely treatment of the second subject group ( say in the recapitulation at 9′54″ ) lacks the tension which would integrate it into the whole .
8 He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday .
9 Faintly disappointed , she emptied her lungs and resumed the walk which would bring her to the main gate .
10 He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 .
11 Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world .
12 He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley .
13 He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ .
14 Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath .
15 Walking up three steps , she was soon in the foyer of the block of apartments she 'd set out to find , and pressing the button in the lift which would take her to the top floor .
16 This was a Monday night and the early show of a week 's run in a tour which would take her round the Eastern States , and hopefully into New York for the spring of 1913 , that is if audiences took to her in this first week .
17 The HIE chief executive , Iain Robertson , said : ‘ Objective 1 funding would provide a platform for growth for the Highlands and Islands which would take it from the edge of Europe to the community 's very heart . ’
18 ‘ Objective 1 funding would provide a platform for growth for the Highlands and Islands which would take it from the edge of Europe to the community 's very heart , ’ said the Highlands and Islands Enterprise chief executive , Iain Robertson .
19 ‘ In addition to doublle-digit growth for use in bottling , I can see a market for 50-70kta of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe in these new applications by 1990 , ’ says Bruce , ‘ And as a successful outcome of the research we are doing to produce materials of high-temperature resistance [ which would take us into the hot-fill container market ] and materials of improved gas barrier properties could add considerably to that . ’
20 THE Prime Minister 's senior advisers will meet this weekend to try to rescue the Government 's student top-up loans scheme , as the clearing banks — which would run it on the Treasury 's behalf — stiffen their opposition .
21 The inspectors awarded Mr Gueho 17-18 marks out of possible 20 , a ranking which would put him among the very best chefs of France .
22 Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires .
23 The government 's position is that the major decisions on countering global warming will have to wait on international agreement at the 1992 UN conference on the environment , which would project them beyond the present government .
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