Example sentences of "[Wh det] [modal v] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my judgment , this was an order which ought never to have been made at any stage of the case . |
| 2 | The Coroner said : This is something which ought never to have happened . |
| 3 | The grass roots practitioner can play a major part in the process , by identifying phenomena whose investigation may lead to improvements in teaching and learning , and which may otherwise go unnoticed . |
| 4 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 5 | Due to the high resistance and small current involved in this circuit , and to preserve battery life , it is now beneficial to clean the copper side of the circuit board with a rag soaked in meths to remove finger grease which may otherwise cause leakage currents to flow . |
| 6 | As well as simplifying the relations , normalisation also reduces anomalies which may otherwise occur when manipulating the relations in a relational database . |
| 7 | But perhaps , too , we go to observe our death , prefigured in the element in which we can not survive , and which may eventually cover the earth for all time . |
| 8 | A honey-bee colony , which may eventually contain up to eighty thousand individuals , is founded when a young queen hatches in an existing colony and emigrates , taking half of the workers with her . |
| 9 | As a consequence there are books on many library shelves which may eventually have to be withdrawn , with or without litigation , not because of their content but because of their intent . |
| 10 | As well as being able to make chargeable transfers and exempt transfers , under IHTA 1984 , s3(3A) a taxpayer may also make a potentially exempt transfer which is broadly a transfer which is assumed to be exempt from inheritance tax at the time of the gift but which may ultimately end up being a chargeable transfer because the donor does not survive the making of the gift by seven years . |
| 11 | In the second case the land speculator with capital may acquire land With hope value land which may control or prevent development of adjoining land such as sight lines or access points , and key parcels of land which may ultimately form part of a larger site . |
| 12 | In contrast , the actual role of modified linguistic input may be to provide the child with a restricted set of choices , any number or combination of which may ultimately lead to developmental progress . |
| 13 | A Mareva injunction will be available whatever the cause of action , provided that it is one which may ultimately lead to enforcement against the defendant 's assets ; it would not be available where the relief sought was purely declaratory . |
| 14 | And when we examine those repetitive media messages , we find amongst them those which dull , which desensitise , and which may ultimately disinhibit by eroding the internalised constraints which are part and parcel of the civilising process , constraints we used to learn at our mother 's knee , and which we discard at our peril . |
| 15 | The earliest stage in the formation of an offshore feature is the deposition of a bank of sand , which may ultimately emerge at high tide . |
| 16 | Mr Salmond undoubtedly has a point in arguing , as he did over the weekend , that any demonstrable gain which may ultimately emerge from the deal with Mr Lang was achieved without serious risk of saving the Government from a Commons defeat . |
| 17 | It concerns some issue which may ultimately imply a choice of what to do about it . |
| 18 | The more complicated the decision space of the program , the more sophisticated will be the optimum driving system which may ultimately need most of the features of the full graphics-oriented database management system . |
| 19 | Bacterial meningitis can present with acute disturbance of behaviour which may closely mimic substance abuse . |
| 20 | The epidemics of the hot , dry summers of the 1890s probably obscured an underlying decline in infant mortality which may already have begun by the 1880s . |
| 21 | In the majority of cases however , the valuation engagement will be value added , where the firm uses information , which may already have been the subject of validation , enquiry and analytical procedures or information gathering work , to derive a conclusion in the form of an estimated value or range of values for a particular purpose . |
| 22 | It is quite unlike the Trojan origin which may already have been attributed to the Franks as a result of imperial diplomacy , and suggests that the Merovingian dynasty did not come to the fore as a result of its connections with Rome . |
| 23 | Much is contingent on the intelligence of our political systems and the chances of world history which may yet give us such a fright that something commensurable to the strides made by the creation of the UN in 1945 will be made possible . |
| 24 | The infant formula brouhaha created a monster which may yet check and balance the dread corporation : the multinational pressure group . |
| 25 | Undeterred , he kept his gaze averted , saying quietly , ‘ I have something here which may yet put the company back on an upward spiral . |
| 26 | What little money has been recovered remains the subject of a legal tussle in the courts which may yet take months to resolve . |
| 27 | Jamie 's father is helping to organise a protest group , which may yet take Thames Water to court for damages over the cryptosporidia contamination . |
| 28 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 29 | There he was on television this week , whipping up a meeting of left-wing students into a frenzy with his oratory : ‘ There are new forces in our society — new forces , new loyalties , new ideas not yet articulated — which may yet come to our rescue . |
| 30 | Moreover , it seemed ironic that South Africa 's reimmersion in the Test arena should be marred by such a local show of disaffection , a boycott naive and myopic in concept and of no relevance to racial reform in the Republic , which may yet have repercussions in the Caribbean game as a whole . |