Example sentences of "which [modal v] [vb infin] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such reversals , which may last for a period of several years , have been observed on the east coast . |
| 2 | Have any events taken place in the last ten years which might call for a reassessment of that view or a more optimistic response in your work ? |
| 3 | If Zafferana was saved from the lava , which could flow for a year or more , it would be ‘ a complete fluke ’ , he said . |
| 4 | But you 've argued previously in this hall that North Yorkshire should provide for residential development at a level which would cater for a continuation of the past levels of migration . |
| 5 | A minority government formed by Labour or the Conservatives would , he maintained , create instability and uncertainty rather than work constructively for a partnership government which would last for a parliament . |
| 6 | He then took some food which would last for a while and packed it into his bag . |
| 7 | He put forward in mid-September a peace proposal envisaging the creation of an interim legislative assembly , which would sit for a year pending elections . |
| 8 | All of which would make for a rave review , were it not for the fact that , for all their charm , the Jays ' every move oozes lamentable irrelevance . |
| 9 | On the one hand it proposes a range of socially useful products , and on the other , new forms of technology which would provide for a human-enhancing and liberating means of making the socially useful products . |
| 10 | It was back in 1972 and we were testing the waters , talking about this new magazine we wanted to launch which would campaign for an end to world poverty . |
| 11 | Most routes will now be franchised to a single operator , which will bid for a monopoly on each one . |
| 12 | Further , some very salient Liverpool dialect phenomena such as syllable-final aspirated fricatives ( e.g. [ bu ? h ] ‘ bush ’ ) are probably best described not quantitatively , but qualitatively in terms of the articulatory setting peculiar to the dialect , which can account for a number of superficially quite diverse phonetic characteristics . |