Example sentences of "[indef pn] which [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm hoping she might have said something to someone which might help me find her . ’ |
| 2 | He possessed just enough self-control to continue his gentle stroking of her , but both his arms now held her , and almost without her willing it McAllister 's crept around his neck , and unconsciously they sank , from their sitting position , on to the bed , to lie with McAllister 's head on the pillow , Dr Neil 's by her , he careful to lie still , to do nothing which might suggest any kind of bodily union . |
| 3 | A client is entitled to have his affairs treated with complete confidentiality ( save with his consent , or where the solicitor 's duty is overridden by his public duty to disclose matters tending to the commission of a crime or to disclose information in response to a sub poena or witness summons ) and the retained solicitor is under a duty to ensure that his co-partners and staff do nothing which might result in a breach of that rule . |
| 4 | And if the Soviet leader kept silent in Peking in May , as hundreds of thousands shouted his name during the demonstrations at Tiananmen , he seems the more likely to say nothing which might inflame passions so comparatively close to home . |
| 5 | In the end he gave up trying to analyse his own feelings , or even totally understand them , and lay there relaxed , listening for the slow , regular breathing of sleep , and was n't sure if he detected it or not — The door opened briefly at one point and a young man 's voice said " Shit , " but Graham did n't even turn to look ; he knew it could be nothing which would disturb them . |
| 6 | Mr Wilson commented on the BBC doing nothing which would do a disservice to Linfield Football Club , but I could say the same about Glenavon . |
| 7 | Therefore , if it is at all possible , I should prefer nothing which would upset the group to emerge for another week . " |
| 8 | Leases and contracts have been entered into , but I have seen nothing which would prevent the regulation of operating hours . |
| 9 | The tenant undertakes to do nothing which would put in jeopardy the continuation of the licence in respect of the premises . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've told me nothing which would have been worth Edwin Garland taking the trouble to put into a letter and leave it with his lawyer . |
| 11 | In the drawing room , where they had drunk their pre-dinner sherry , Dalgliesh had a sense of a room which deliberately rejected the past , containing nothing which could violate the owner 's essential privacy ; no family history in photograph or portrait , no shabby heirlooms given room out of nostalgia , sentimentality or family piety , no antiques collected over the years . |
| 12 | Nothing which could endanger either the crown or the safety of the realm ? ’ |
| 13 | And we want nothing which will tend to rehabilitate the fallen fortunes of the Liberal Party in the country . |
| 14 | And see ye that sumpter beasts be laden with all that there is in Valencia , so that nothing which can profit may be left . |
| 15 | Not only on , on the expenditure and the changes required , but also on planning our response to changes which will happen in the future , because it is unlikely that we will ever be able to forecast everything which will happen to us exactly . |
| 16 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 17 | It would be advisable to build in at the planning stage something which would create a need for co-operation on the new planet . |
| 18 | Proper heading , quality logo paper , hook , statistics , something which would lead into the thing , more friendly language , it was very bureaucratic , was n't it , in a sense ? |
| 19 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 20 | It was as if he has caught an infection which was moving around all men but as yet lighting on few , something which would grow to cause fever where there had been force . |
| 21 | There is something in that actually charging a percent it gives you an option that you could do something which would mean that the option was n't cancelled . |
| 22 | They agreed to assist and aid financially the socioeconomic development of French overseas territories , to align social legislation on holidays and equal pay with that of France ( something which would raise production costs in all five countries ) , to allow France to retain its system of export subsidies and import taxes until it could acquire financial equilibrium . |
| 23 | Then came the thought that Mrs Maybury had something vital to tell her , something which would help her to find Elaine — or Lilian ; it was difficult not to think of her as Elaine . |
| 24 | It is important to note that , since the system began in the late 1920s , there has never been a significant move to split up the schools for use by the separate denominations , something which would have been feasible in the larger towns . |
| 25 | Their relevance to Worcester itself , and to the Worcestershire towns of the 1980s was something which would have to be learned from experience . |
| 26 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |
| 27 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 28 | The Swiss crew was stroked by Jeremy West , the French crew included East German veteran Rudi Helm , the USSR/Italian team included masters Schaparenko and Tichenko and there was a USSR/Israeli crew , something which would have been unthinkable a short time before . |
| 29 | It was something that had to be done at the same time as teaching , and was seen more , I suppose , as a chore rather than as something which would have any sort of positive spin-off for us . |
| 30 | The completeness of the Woodville collapse casts doubt on any suggestion that Edward IV had deliberately built up their power as a bulwark for his son — something which would have been tantamount to a conscious factionalization of politics . |