Example sentences of "which [modal v] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This ‘ sausage ’ or ‘ carrot ’ ballooning can block the flow of emergency cooling water in the reactor , which should stave off a meltdown . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Moreover many farm workers still find it difficult to meet the cost of private transport which might open up the range of alternatives . |
| 7 | How would Niger and Nigeria react to the plans of upstream nations for barrages and irrigation schemes which might dry up the Niger ? |
| 8 | Institutional and professional continuity seems to allow established disciplines to contain epistemological doubts or crises which might kill off the fledgling . |
| 9 | They scanned the misty water , keeping a watch-out for driftwood which might foul up the engine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | AIDS patients are being given a new vaccine which could slow down the effects of the disease . |
| 12 | A new drug which could slow down the onset of Aids in people infected with the HIV virus is undergoing trials in America . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He claimed that the Government 's vision of enabling authorities — those which would contract out the operation of services — was greatly exaggerated . |
| 20 | During the summer of 1716 , a sensitive time since i August marked the anniversary of King George 's alleged usurpation of the throne , considerable unrest occurred in London where taverns associated with the Whigs were attacked by mobs which would break up the premises but leave enough of the stock undamaged to drink the health of ‘ James III ’ . |
| 21 | To add a new word into the dawg , the current structure would need to be searched both forwards and backwards to establish whether or not the required paths exist , which would slow down the building algorithm ( see section 3.3.3 ) . |
| 22 | Using our description above ( pp. 11 – 12 ) , construct a brief summary of the main points which would make up an instance of each of the following TYPES of argument about the book : |
| 23 | The supreme body was the Council of Heads of State , which would take on the responsibility of legal succession from the dissolution of the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Words such as ‘ unsown ’ and ‘ snow ’ or ‘ star ’ and ‘ stir ’ , along with many others like each other in this way make this a poem without the reader being aware of any rhyme which would take out a lot of the emotion . |
| 25 | The Smaller Firms Council of the Confederation of British Industry is to press the Government to introduce changes in court procedures which would speed up the time it takes to pay bad debts . |
| 26 | , director of the SFO , said that the introduction of plea bargaining would be ‘ the single most important reform ’ which would speed up the disposal of cases . |
| 27 | The best that could be achieved in western Europe was a dispersed defensive strategy which would bog down an offensive , in case of war , and so give time for negotiation . |
| 28 | Lords and peasants were given two years to prepare charters which would map out the peasants ' " portions of arable land " and define the extent of their " obligations " . |
| 29 | A very successful use for this light when knitting tuck is to use a medium thickness fluffy yarn , one which would knit over every needle on your machine , but instead use it on every other needle . |
| 30 | Or we could apply some kind of transformation which would stretch out the tails of the distribution , which would let us stick with arithmetic procedures and avoid multiplicative models . |