Example sentences of "[noun] which would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A massive tribal gathering at Altamira helped to stop a $500 million loan to build hydroelectric dams which would have caused untold environmental damage . |
| 2 | In the absence of charters , the new colonies on the south shore devised constitutions of their own : Connecticut 's Foundations in 1639 were primarily concerned to bring a group of separate towns , each with a rural hinterland , together as one colony with a congregational approach to religion which would avoid the dangers of conflict and division , while the Constitution of Rhode Island , established in 1643 , took a long step further towards complete commitment to the view that no particular variety of religion would be given a special position and that everybody would be allowed to carry on worship freely . |
| 3 | I was in favour of a world religion — an all-enfolding religion rejecting no one , but I did not then know of a church or religion which would include all men . |
| 4 | Although the use of robots has been widely discussed and implemented in large-scale , large volume industries , their use in small manufacturing processes have common characteristics which would seem to lend themselves to the application of robotic techniques . |
| 5 | Such an organisation could take the form of a formal association which would arrange qualifying examinations and the provision of certificates , like the legal and accounting professional bodies , or at least operate in the manner of the existing MCA . |
| 6 | So , so th th that would be some of the thinking which would lie behind sitting down and , and and drawing up a , a reform document a land reform document , in the very late nineteen forties . |
| 7 | The tall , blond player who had joined West Ham at the tender of age of 17 some four years earlier , had done more than choose the right moment to emerge , he 'd nicely anticipated the coming of the right man , Alf Ramsey , who took over the England management shortly afterwards and began to forge the national side which would win the World Cup in 1966 and in which Moore would play an anchor role . |
| 8 | This deal was made acceptable to those provinces which would lose seats in the new Senate by increasing their representation in a House of Commons expanded from 295 to 337 members . |
| 9 | The aim was to create a stable coalition which would represent the majority of the people of Israel , he said . |
| 10 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 11 | Shas was said to have offered to participate in a coalition which would include Meretz , provided that an accommodation could be reached between Labour and the other two religious parties . |
| 12 | By creating demand for the group among record companies you could provoke an auction which would push up your advance ( signing-on fee ) by tens of thousands of pounds , and your royalty percentages by two or three ‘ points ’ . |
| 13 | Rockefeller , a member of the oil and banking family , explained his decision on the grounds that there was too little time to organise a successful campaign and to be ready to form an administration which would meet his " own high standards " . |
| 14 | The second phase would begin with elections for a transitional administration which would remain in power for up to 10 years . |
| 15 | In her childhood her father was obliged to take a job , not in the colonial administration which would have been more or less acceptable , but as a manager of one of the Peruvian silver mines . |
| 16 | In other parts of the world there have been cases where it was desired to combine a system of local independent governments with a unifying central administration which would provide strength especially for foreign affairs and defence . |
| 17 | In very broad outline , the first stage ( 1908 ) was to pay , subject to means , a pension well below subsistence which would supplement income from other sources . |
| 18 | On May 29 the USSR Supreme Soviet approved a new law on foreign investment which would permit 100 per cent foreign ownership of Soviet companies and facilitate the repatriation of profits in hard currency [ see p. 38302 ] . |
| 19 | Investment was planned to rise by 10.3 per cent a year during the five years , with an increasing role for private investment which would account for 60 per cent of the total by 1993 . |
| 20 | In the engineering industry , for example , employers were unable completely to transform work relations towards deskilling and standardised mass production , mainly because they were not prepared to undertake the major capital investment which would have been required ( Zeitlin , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | In all cases where substituted service is effected , the creditor must have taken all those steps which would suffice to justify the court making an order for substituted service of a petition ( see Section 10 below ) . |
| 22 | Will he also consider , as a provisional measure , initiating steps which would enable a magistrate or judge to supervise the interrogation of a defendant charged with a terrorist offence ? |
| 23 | A brewery is fighting a hostile take over bid which would mean the end of more than two hundred and fifty years of brewing . |
| 24 | The delegates , who discussed ways of strengthening the enforcement of the UN 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea , urged closer co-operation to establish regional organizations which would regulate fishing on the high seas and settle disputes . |
| 25 | The new policies envisage that although the state remains the ‘ fundamental instrument ’ in applying educational policy , responsibility for provision should be devolved to non-governmental bodies — including firms , co-operatives , citizens ' associations and social or humanitarian organizations which would subsidize community schools on a non-profit basis . |
| 26 | The first was an accelerated attempt to broaden the focus of the family planning programme to include the broader concept of family welfare planning — an ingenious verbal massage of an increasingly tarnished image , but one which did acknowledge the need for a better delivery system for family health including better preventative medicine , pre- and post-puerperal care and advice on household hygiene which would lower infant mortality rates and improve the health of the family . |
| 27 | Table 5.6 shows a sample passage of handwritten text together with the recognition results for it , and the reductions in the number of candidates which would have been allowed , had a measure of word length been used . |
| 28 | Having caught the left rough off the tee , she was shaping to hit the kind of second shot over trees and lakes which would have had Laura Davies drooling . |
| 29 | There was much interest in a broadly based Middle Eastern Command which would enlist the willing support of the Arab states . |
| 30 | He is one of the most exciting one-day players in the world , with footwork which would do credit to Victor Sylvester . |