Example sentences of "which would [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was needed was a good control system which would tell them where in the organization the problem lay so they could tackle it at source . |
| 2 | She knew she should reply with some light-hearted quip which would set everything down on a matter-of-fact level and make her meaning plain , but quips were beyond her . |
| 3 | ‘ He could start back after Christmas but that would be too late for Cheltenham and there is always the risk that he could do more damage which would set him back for next season . ’ |
| 4 | The Linnets are desperate for a win which would drag them away from the lower reaches of the table , and Kettering 's record of only two points from their opening eight away games suggests a home win . |
| 5 | It was in Launceston that Gould took the opportunity of parting company with Gilbert , instructing him to await the arrival in Launceston of the Comet , which would carry him on to the Swan River in Western Australia . |
| 6 | Within the hour they were out into the countryside , following the track which would lead them down to the old Roman road . |
| 7 | Half-blinded , his lashes and brows coated with a rim of snow , George was disorientated and unable to find a path which would lead him down to the shelter of the valley . |
| 8 | His fear focused his whole concentration on the tiny circle of steel pressed against his flinching neck , and on the white-knuckled finger he could imagine curled round the little half moon of metal — the least movement of which would blast him out of existence . |
| 9 | Boswell 's account says they rode two miles to the shore to find a herring-boat which would take them out to Raasay . |
| 10 | But they did talk about how , if you have a holistic attitude to some one , you have to take account of their social and environmental factors which would take them perhaps into green politics . |
| 11 | Yanto had hardly bothered to reduce speed as he had turned sharp left by Stone school into the narrow lane which would take them back to Berkeley . |
| 12 | The air was amazingly clear , as it often is after a wet day , and as they climbed the hill which would take them back to Pinehurst they could see , far ahead , the lights of several villages and one big town . |
| 13 | Moments later , as Lake Balkhash slipped away below him , Vologsky made a minor adjustment and set the Foxbat on a course which would take it directly over the home missile bases at Alma-Ata . |
| 14 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 15 | How far these two constructions — the adjective with the verb and the adverb with the verb — should be considered in company with constructions such as : ( 15 ) Heidi saw the stork falter ( 16 ) kiss her goodbye ! is an interesting question , but one which would take us well beyond the bounds of the adjectival study on which we are focusing here . ) |
| 16 | The first sets a few months ago were well over £2000 which would put them out of the range of all private and a lot of charter boats . |
| 17 | It seemed there was nothing he could do to persuade the child to cease her disobedience , nothing he could say which would frighten her sufficiently for her to come to her senses . |
| 18 | With a sense of relief he climbed aboard the waiting Sikorsky , equipped with skis , which would fly him back to Helsinki . |
| 19 | At one point I would have to answer a long-distance phone call , which would keep me out of the room for half an hour . |