Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb mod] [vb infin] [verb] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Their directives pre-empt the force of at least some of the reasons which otherwise should have guided the actions of those people . |