Example sentences of "[pron] which [vb mod] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could be nothing which might be regarded as clandestine . |
| 2 | Stocker was at pains to say : ‘ We have nothing which could be tested on humans … nothing yet which can help Aids patients or people infected with the Aids virus or any other virus . ’ |
| 3 | They agreed to do nothing which could be construed as recognition of the current Soviet government . |
| 4 | This negative bias entails however that in the speaker 's eyes there are no real reasons which can be conceived as occupying the before-position which a reason normally occupies with respect to the action it calls for ; and since there is consequently nothing which can be situated in time before this action , the meaning of to does not apply in this use . |
| 5 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 6 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 7 | They can be teamed up with an additional pair of short curtains hanging above them which would be drawn at night , thus giving a tiered effect . |
| 8 | But they reaped no advantage ; there was nothing moving towards them which could be deemed to be a consideration , with the result that the case is one in which the contract is made , but remains unenforceable in law … . |
| 9 | Others possess cultures of phosphorescent bacteria in special organs with flaps of skin over them which can be moved to expose or conceal the bacteria in a series of winks and flashes . |
| 10 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 11 | Because occupants can not be trusted to conserve fuel , liberties of theirs which may be infringed against by centralisation of control are dismissible since they are liberties to do mischief . |
| 12 | But the most famous and prestigious pilgrimage of all was that to Jerusalem itself which could be conceived at a literal level as a journey to the centre of the earth . |
| 13 | One of the most common experiments of this kind is making and firing of pottery , which not only tests methods of pottery construction , decoration , glazing , and firing methods , but also leaves the remains of the kiln itself which can be compared with excavated examples . |
| 14 | Now it is especially the occupation of Stalingrad itself which will be completed … |
| 15 | The first payment due to you which will be credited to your business bank account will be on week commencing the seventh of the February . |
| 16 | I think it helps if you can identify whether the the erm depression is just caused by erm the circumstances round about you which can be alleviated by changing them or if it 's caused by eating habits or erm or erm hormones or chemical imbalances in , I 've suffered , I think , from all them as well ! |
| 17 | Ticking off items on a mental list , Ashley decided that everything which might be needed for the weekend had been packed . |
| 18 | Similarly in ( 19 ) the conditional would signifies that not building is being envisaged as a hypothesis , as something which might be done in the future , but which is unadvisable in the eyes of the speaker . |
| 19 | This will be dealt with in greater detail in Chapter 8 , but it needs to be mentioned briefly here as something which should be agreed at the outset . |
| 20 | These documents together with covering letters enable MAS and the vendor to control the sale process , something which should be used to maximum advantage to help enable an acceptable/full price in line with the agreed objectives to be achieved . |
| 21 | But , as has been shown , although their proportionate contribution increased over the period it is not something which should be interpreted in wholly optimistic terms . |
| 22 | The script gave one a hint of what they were all about , but after that it was a question of backwards and forwards passing of sketches , ideas on backs of envelopes , bits of paper until ultimately we came down to this pepper-pot shape which Ray then had to translate into something which could be manipulated and made to work — which he did brilliantly . |
| 23 | On the other hand the point , for example , that one priest is , is a very distinct possibility , is something which could be expressed in some way I would have thought . |
| 24 | As we have seen , scientia , or scientific knowledge as the seventeenth century understood it , was not something which could be obtained from an observation-based study of the natural world . |
| 25 | You then begin to build up a story line , a structure and something which could be called interesting and could be the start of interesting idea . |
| 26 | What caused its collapse was Craig 's conversion to something which could be presented to loyalists as power-sharing . |
| 27 | The judges responded by saying that the ‘ purpose ’ of the accused was something which could be defined objectively . |
| 28 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 29 | But if the death of Hastings was a sign that Gloucester had made up his mind to take the throne , this was not yet something which could be admitted . |
| 30 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |