Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is the Commission , for example , which quite overtly decided not to intervene in the decision to build a road through Twyford Down in Hampshire , but which apparently will continue to challenge the plans for an East London river crossing at Oxleas Wood , as well as proposals by British Petroleum for a gas terminal at Falkirk .
2 It can be no accident that the opinion of the police officer is now sought on matters which once would have remained the province of the archbishop and his clergy .
3 He had aged : his toothbrush moustache , which once might have led the reconquest of India , had turned quite white .
4 unresolved oedipal problems ( which formerly might have produced a typical hysteria ) may today lead to a state of unrestrained and self-destructive acting out , and to delinquency , simulating a picture of psychosis , as the ego remains weak and the superego ineffectual in the face of uncontrolled drives .
5 Despite an approaching typhoon which ordinarily would have left the streets deserted , the march attracted 40,000 people - the largest political demonstration locally for 20 years .
6 When I put in darker clouds using a gel to keep the paint mixture stiff they lay gently on the damp paper , forming soft edges as they dried instead of the hard patches which otherwise would have destroyed the luminous envelope .
7 After 1933 , too , the ferocious personal enmities and political conflicts within the Nazi élite , which otherwise would have torn the system apart , were resolved only in Hitler 's own charismatic authority — in his indisputable position as the base of Nazism 's popular legitimacy and the embodiment of Nazism 's ‘ idea ’ .
8 Their directives pre-empt the force of at least some of the reasons which otherwise should have guided the actions of those people .
9 By then , performance enhancement will centre more on multiple capabilities than , say , clock speeds , which likely will have reached a plateau .
10 By then , performance enhancement will centre more on multiple capabilities than , say , clock speeds , which likely will have reached a plateau .
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