Example sentences of "which [verb] [that] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The age of consent was considered by the Policy Advisory Committee which recommended that it should remain at 16 . |
| 2 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 3 | Has he seen its estimates , which suggest that it would increase business costs by an extra £50 million and cut 150,000 jobs ? |
| 4 | Meanwhile , an attempt by France on April 2 to persuade the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution to provide protection for the Kurds , ended in failure after opposition from China , the Soviet Union and the USA , which maintained that it would set a precedent for Security Council involvement in internal controversies . |
| 5 | France , which envisaged that it would lead the new force , had withdrawn from NATO 's integrated command structure in 1966 [ see p. 21601 ] and had since then pursued an effectively independent line on military issues . |
| 6 | A petition signed by 115 leading personalities , requesting the King to appoint a 1,300-1,500 member National Assembly , drew widespread opposition from the main political parties which claimed that it would drag the monarchy into politics . |
| 7 | The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest . |
| 8 | Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports . |
| 9 | The bill was passed despite fierce opposition from the white commercial farming community which warned that it would transform productive commercial farms into subsistence smallholdings and could turn Zimbabwe from a food exporter to an importer . |
| 10 | Reports indicated that US pressure to grant associate membership to the Soviet Union had been opposed by Germany , which feared that it would delay granting the Soviet Union full IMF membership . |
| 11 | The index is very well cross-referenced , which means that it can open up valuable new fields of research . |
| 12 | A written sentence , on the other hand , can more easily be HYPOTACTIC , which means that it can have complex relations between its parts — one inside another , rather than just one after another . |
| 13 | The Vienna doctors say that D-proline is neurotoxic , which means that it can kill brain and other nerve cells . |
| 14 | When temperate forests are cleared , the remaining ground is rich in organic matter , which means that it can withstand repeated ploughing , and supports good crops . |
| 15 | Firstly , it 's a 32 bit operating system , which means that it will run only on the 386 and above . |
| 16 | The move was welcomed by the ANC which said that it would co-operate fully with them . |
| 17 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 18 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 19 | In a fifth , B antigen was expressed strongly in the descending colon , but only weakly in the splenic flexure and the sigmoid colon which suggests that it might have been artefactual . |