Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the days of portable recording machines which everyone could carry with them , record companies had to use great imagination to fill their catalogues with new and interesting material . |
| 2 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that although business sponsorship of the arts is extremely important and welcome , it would be just as beneficial for the arts , particularly local theatres such as the Civic theatre in Chelmsford , if we had a national lottery to which everyone could contribute to help to raise funds for the arts ? |
| 3 | Its composer , the Argentinian Alejandro Mayol , sought to express the Christian faith in a language which everyone could understand — at all levels of society . |
| 4 | Since subscriptions for membership have not been increased this year , one way in which everyone could help would be to add a donation — no matter how small — when sending in their subscription fee . |
| 5 | Servant 's hands , which nothing could disguise . |
| 6 | It cast a shadow from which nothing could escape . |
| 7 | One of them , Neil , could — like his father — turn his hand to anything , and also had the same sense of humour , which nothing could quench . |
| 8 | They disparage themselves for doubting and in the same breath defend their doubt like a treasured possession which nothing could persuade them to give up . |
| 9 | The interviews gave me plenty of insights , but there was no way in which I could tell in what ways the Moonies might differ from other people of a similar age and from a similar background . |
| 10 | He said look you do n't need to take that to school , it 's just taking up space which I could stand in . |
| 11 | ( No car of my own of which I could boast ) , |
| 12 | Perhaps , too , he may have believed that once the gloss on my love affair dimmed , his money would act as a reminder of the comforts to which I could return . |
| 13 | I looked round for something with which I could knock him out after we had taken off . |
| 14 | I sank into a kind of Romantic melancholy , which I could feed and sustain by reading Keats , Shelley , Tennyson , Matthew Arnold , and ( above all ) Byron . |
| 15 | This particular airfield had been chosen for the test-flight because it was surrounded by open country , and there in front of me were fields from which I could choose . |
| 16 | This contract was , perhaps , the only evidence from which I could deduce Helmut 's hurt . |
| 17 | Buckmaster in person , which I could do without . |
| 18 | . which I could do very well . ’ |
| 19 | Normally when you copy , you copy somewhere different , er , which I could do , but er , I 'm gon na copy it to the same place . |
| 20 | I began to see ways in which I could improve . |
| 21 | Is the difference one which I could apprehend without any thoughts of ducks and rabbits ? |
| 22 | When I said ‘ English ’ he started on some obscure anecdote in which I could make out little except the name ‘ Margaret ’ and the repetition of ‘ kato , kato ’ , ‘ down , down ’ . |
| 23 | The atmosphere was less turbid than I 'd expected from Edward 's description — a glowing , orange-red furnace of heat in which I could make out the shadowy profiles of two pots . |
| 24 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |
| 25 | There was a really good profile of all the youngsters which I could reproduce if people want . |
| 26 | My father went back to stirring the soup , which I could smell now above the cigar smoke . |
| 27 | Being married and having young children , the range of chef 's hours available within contract catering was , of course , attractive ; but the main incentives were the obvious routes by which I could move upwards on joining High Table . ’ |
| 28 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 29 | I could visualise , as we sat under the rattan shade of the veranda , passing a perfect life on the island — a comfortable house , a garden in which I could grow everything I needed , enough fish to eat . |
| 30 | I was isn a relationship which I could feel was going wrong — in the same way that all my previous relationships had gone wrong . |