Example sentences of "which [modal v] have [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other outlets for lay piety which may have channelled that desire for corporate activity embodied in the European Beguinages were the lay fraternities of contemplative communities and the city guilds which provided both temporary contemplative retreats for those in active life , and active expressions of social concern which embodied the love of God . |
| 2 | Confounding variables which may have affected urinary albumin excretion were similar within and between our two groups — that is , glycaemic control , weight , and protein intake ( as reflected by urinary urea excretion ) . |
| 3 | Assuming they were free from spelling and other mistakes , a process which may have involved several attempts , these were cut up and stuck down onto a master layout sheet using wax or gum . |
| 4 | The National Curriculum subjects will therefore have to be given priority for resources , especially where schools have not offered the full curriculum to all pupils , or in primary schools which may have done little science and technology . |
| 5 | This view was qualified by other officers of the company who said in some instances Informix could provide backing for startup firms , such as those which may have developed important technology but were unable to productise it due to lack of funds . |
| 6 | Unhappily , habits which may have had some virtue in times of scarcity became vices in times of relative abundance . |
| 7 | Smaller library authorities have traditionally faced the problem of lack of staff ‘ mobility ’ , with difficulties in releasing staff from normal service points : the ability of libraries with larger establishments to release groups of staff , making internal training viable and economic , or to be able to afford external courses , has perhaps contributed to a tendency to define training largely in terms of off-the-job courses which may have discouraged some libraries from even attempting to develop a coherent overall training plan . |
| 8 | In the face of the dreadful attacks on police officers , the Home Office should have put together an urgent review team which should have incorporated other Departments and put forward a package of measures . |
| 9 | The finger pointed at education could not easily be pushed aside , particularly at a time when the period of education had been extended and the school population , on both sides of the Atlantic , was beginning to diminish factors which should have favoured significant improvement . |
| 10 | And so the mutual help and support which should have typified Christian brothers became a stick which the Western church used in the coming crusade to beat Orthodox and infidel alike . |
| 11 | The Allegri sounded a bit under-nourished against Mr Campbell 's easy delivery , particularly in the second movement , which should have had more force , though if one expects a bracing scherzo-like piece at this point , Bliss surely over-wrote it , producing instead the effect of a finale . |
| 12 | Before leaving London , Belle had been secretary to an hotel keeper and wine merchant , which should have provided useful experience for the venture . |
| 13 | Now the meeting , which should have taken ten minutes , was being dragged out to three-quarters of an hour . |
| 14 | He owned hundreds of acres of land in Wisconsin , Iowa , Florida and Colorado , and was busy in the horse-raising business , which must have involved substantial time , travel and capital . |
| 15 | The diplomacy which must have preceded this match , and Cnut 's desire for it , imply worries about Robert 's attitude which were to prove well founded . |
| 16 | Nos. 41 and 57 which must have had some defects , were sold to T. W. Ward for scrapping at the same time . |
| 17 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |
| 18 | This speech was published in Pravda on 24 January under the title of ‘ Lenin 's Political Testament ’ , which must have rung some warning bells for many within the Party since Lenin 's actual political testament had not been published at that time . |
| 19 | Richard and his Brabançons carried out this task with an efficiency which must have shattered many observers accustomed to a more leisurely way of doing things . |
| 20 | The North American economist , John Kenneth Galbraith , took a distinctly positive view , claiming that the crisis had shown both the revival of industrial technology and the reimposition of civic discipline as demonstrated by the pay pause , in the face of difficulties which might have led feebler nations to buckle under , or even lapse into military or other dictatorships . |
| 21 | It comes as something of a shock , therefore , to realize that there were other areas , such as South Asia , more developed in technology and the articulation between production and trade , and highly dynamic in mercantile organization , which might have possessed equal potential to have become the centre for an industrial revolution , if these factors were indeed the primary causative variables ( Perlin 1983 ) . |
| 22 | It was once thought that the Chardonnay vine was brought to Champagne from Cyprus by knights returning from the Crusades , which might have provided some sort of answer , but this theory has since been discredited . |
| 23 | Officials from all US exchanges have thwarted further derivatives industry regulation which might have entailed higher costs and lost business to overseas exchanges . |
| 24 | Sutton , who missed with another header shortly afterwards , went on to squander two more excellent opportunities which could have kept alive Norwich 's hopes of going to the final for the first time in their history . |
| 25 | But there was some comfort in the figures for the Government and for an already hard-pressed pound , which could have faced another battering if the deficit had been worse than the expected £1.5billion . |
| 26 | Government leaders might have welcomed a united report from the Royal Commission , which could have justified real reform of the Poor Law . |
| 27 | Dr Tom McManus of the IIRS defended the Institute against allegations that it had been ‘ bought ’ by industry by claiming the IIRS had turned down 15 major industries which could have caused dangerous pollution : he cited the example of a herbicide factory which could have wiped out much of the marine life in Cork Harbour . |
| 28 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 29 | At Boston Spa , for example , there were no adequate washing facilities for 16 years ; at Exeter , it was 1887 before the school got hot water facilities ; at Old Kent Road , the installation of gas pipes which could have provided better lighting was rejected in 1833 on the grounds the cost was exorbitant and that the children could make do with candles . |
| 30 | Conversely had we had the profits last year which would have generated taxable profits then we would n't have needed to have done that , so that 's one reason why it was not disclosed on floatations at the time and floatation was not regarded as an asset . |