Example sentences of "[vb past] which [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To investigateas necessary , and in particular : ( i ) to contactor seek to interview people as appropriate or as the court directs ; ( ii ) to bring to the court 's attentionall records and documents inspected which may assist the court in deciding the case ; ( iii ) to obtain professional adviceas appropriate or as the court may direct ; ( iv ) to file at court a written reportat least seven days before the final hearing , unless the court directs otherwise ; the court will then distribute copies of the report to the other parties . |
| 2 | J. was one of these in his capacity as fitter/armourer , and he was there when an accident occurred which could have escalated into absolute disaster . |
| 3 | The company had special display boxes made which would take the complete range and this was distributed to the homes of leading food writers and journalists . |
| 4 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 5 | To do that , he has to get a new constitution adopted which would abolish the existing parliament . |
| 6 | The only thing that I noticed which would annoy me if I were a glider pilot was that , engine off , the propeller does have a habit of rotating slightly . |
| 7 | One day something happened which might seem unimportant , but which had a great effect on Oliver 's future . |
| 8 | So , for example , it may be that a keen walker would have a special interest in a stretch of country where he or she frequently walked which would entitle him or her to challenge a decision to grant planning permission to develop it , whereas an ordinary member of the public or even of some environmental group in a different area might not have . |
| 9 | David Scott was not one of the more successful county politicians , and perhaps his attitude is a little too pure for the real world of eighteenth-century politics , but it represents , even if in an exaggerated form , the general political maxim that the politician performs friendly services for his friends without haggling over a bargain , or even implying that an understanding existed which might suggest that a vote was given for services rendered , or as in this case , for services which might be performed at a future date . |
| 10 | The abnormalities related to ammonia administration noted in the earlier in vitro studies and animal models may be explained by the high pH employed which would have increased the proportion of unionised ammonia . |
| 11 | This is admittedly an extreme case since Germany has passed from the , in theory , most complete pan-German political unity under Hitler to a situation where at least two states coexisted which could claim to be all or part of the German nation . |
| 12 | Every act I took which would have been impossible in my own age served to disperse the sheet-anchors that held my personality . |
| 13 | Soon species appeared which could fill their air-bags by diffusing gas into them from the blood rather than by rising to the surface and swallowing air . |
| 14 | However local and limited the awareness to which the words testify , I have identified a spontaneous reaction to which , since it is provisionally approved by ‘ Be aware ’ , it is rational to seek means as an end good in itself ; if you disagree , the burden of proof has shifted to you , to make me aware of something overlooked which will redirect my response . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth want legislation introduced which will make manufacturers put energy efficiency labels on their products and they are asking ministers to suggest such labels when they meet their European Community counterparts for green talks . |
| 16 | Thus the number of vacant cells left which can accommodate the next molecule will be |
| 17 | One can visualise these gentlemen each with a candle or dim lantern , perhaps totally unused to situations like that , climbing fearfully up the ladders , hard on each others heels , taking comfort from the nearness of each other and climbing awkwardly with the lights they carried which would cast but a feeble glow about them . |
| 18 | Another thing we had which would attract the locals to call was a weather glass — a barometer most people would call it , I suppose , and I still have it on my wall . |
| 19 | I had to find out what commissions she had which would have to be cancelled . |
| 20 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |