Example sentences of "which [modal v] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cause was never known but affected soldiers all had close contact with soil — which may explain why the cavalry and officers were rarely affected . |
| 2 | There are also fears that the increased tourist traffic will bring introduced plant and animal species which may bring about the extinction of endemic species . |
| 3 | Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain . |
| 4 | Pharmacologists , on the other hand , will point out that they now can design rational drugs which may influence precisely the functioning of the relevant gene product . |
| 5 | Serial music may be written in various idioms , some of which may have virtually no melody at all . |
| 6 | This ‘ sausage ’ or ‘ carrot ’ ballooning can block the flow of emergency cooling water in the reactor , which should stave off a meltdown . |
| 7 | A slight alteration to the course this year — work going on around the River Mersey means that the runners now have the luxury of running through the elegant Marina Complex , which should speed up the proceedings . |
| 8 | The Indian government has been strongly criticized for its slow response , but a bill has now been introduced in parliament which should speed up the processing of claims . |
| 9 | Apart from legislation which might break up the unity of imperial law , some colonial legislation was likely to affect the interests of people in Britain directly . |
| 10 | Moreover many farm workers still find it difficult to meet the cost of private transport which might open up the range of alternatives . |
| 11 | ‘ Stadium indie ’ … which might explain why the Americans are taking to this with such gusto . |
| 12 | Which might explain why the people of the Yemen spend a third of the gross national product on the vegetable-like drug . |
| 13 | How would Niger and Nigeria react to the plans of upstream nations for barrages and irrigation schemes which might dry up the Niger ? |
| 14 | Institutional and professional continuity seems to allow established disciplines to contain epistemological doubts or crises which might kill off the fledgling . |
| 15 | They scanned the misty water , keeping a watch-out for driftwood which might foul up the engine . |
| 16 | If this fails to hold the situation then review the case and see if there have been any changes or new information come to light that would enable you to select a more similar remedy which could carry on the work of the first remedy . |
| 17 | AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease . |
| 18 | A new drug which could slow down the onset of Aids in people infected with the HIV virus is undergoing trials in America . |
| 19 | The problem was , however , that the ink often obscured the watermark as well as large sections of the paper which could show up the idiosyncrasies of the particular mould used ( the point being that the hundreds of paper mills in existence at the time not only had their own watermarks but that each particular paper mould had its own variations in the structure of its wires ) . |
| 20 | But there is the problem of oxygen ‘ sinks ’ existing as well , which could use up the oxygen produced by recombining with any of the CHON molecules . |
| 21 | Nothing which could endanger either the crown or the safety of the realm ? ’ |
| 22 | The texture of the sounds , the little ant-bear funnels , the twittering of the water sprinklers , the unnamed but instantly familiar birds , the patient devotions of the gardeners , the numberless frogs ( now in caviare-eyed repose on water lilies and ledges ) , the huge , lazy tadpoles , the dragonflies on their biplane wings skimming the water , the busy red ants returning with baguettes of grass ( the same ants which used to run up the shorts of children and sink their vicious fangs into unwary little scrota ) and now the distant thwack of tennis bails and the inevitable muted cries of anguish — all these impressions play so strongly on my memory because they leap thirty-five years of my life in one bound . |
| 23 | At the end of January 1990 the Australian government announced an expanded military assistance programme worth A$15,000,000 which would involve both the training and the expansion of the PNG Defence Force . |
| 24 | Obviously I could n't wear tops that were short which would show where the belt was , so that summer was terrible . |
| 25 | Carl Sagan , the distinguished astrophysicist , suggested in 1961 that Venus could be made habitable to earthlings if it were seeded with blue-green algae , which would split up the carbon and oxygen molecules to glean the carbon necessary for the glucose and carbohydrate diets they would need . |
| 26 | With Lytton Strachey 's Elizabeth and Essex as their source , they invented scenes which would open out the twin deltas of their story ; Elizabeth the monarch and Elizabeth the woman . |
| 27 | In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed . |
| 28 | Whistling , rapid stamping , cheering , hurling of wrappers , cartons and ice creams [ which would explain how the screen got stained ] . |
| 29 | The three principal tasks of the proposed congress would be ( i ) to set out the broad principles within which the detailed constitutional work could be carried out ; ( ii ) to determine the make-up of the body which would draw up the constitution ; and ( iii ) to establish an interim government to oversee the transition process until a new government was in place . |
| 30 | He claimed that the Government 's vision of enabling authorities — those which would contract out the operation of services — was greatly exaggerated . |