Example sentences of "[noun] which they would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 2 | She did not accept that within a more open-ended task , all children could experience success by setting themselves goals which they would work towards accomplishing . |
| 3 | I want to ask the Minister why his two Back-Bench colleagues from Wolverhampton did not nominate the schools which they would wish to see closed or from which they would like to have surplus places taken away . |
| 4 | Even in that situation you would probably be rescued by a passing cruise ship , on board which they would stuff you endlessly with food to compensate for the boredom of the interminable view of the sea . |
| 5 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 6 | The government , I , I find it somewhat disappointing that having put in what I think was an extremely good bid , I think having had that bid accepted at the first stage by government on their shortlist , having then had the bid accepted by the European Union , with the populations really that we submitted to them , we now find that U K government are actually trying trade back some of that population , and , and area coverage of the bid , to be able to use some of that spare capacity which they would generate within the U K , within the European population figure elsewhere within the country . |
| 7 | delays may occur in the work cycle if matters of a routine nature are entrusted to committees ; committees must not be given responsibilities which they would carry out inefficiently ; |
| 8 | In a few days Riddle 's body might be found and the two women would almost certainly arrange an elaborate funeral which they would attend and shed a few crocodile tears . |
| 9 | Provided that the authority adopts a meaning which is reasonable or has a rational basis the courts could accept that interpretation , even if it did not accord with the precise meaning which they would have ascribed . |
| 10 | Such clusters will provide support for teachers and for pupils and will create economies of scale which will allow schools to provide extra resources which they would find it difficult to fund out of their individual budget . |
| 11 | The building of any further houses was resisted on the grounds that the additional families which they would attract might eventually become a charge on the poor rates during periods of economic depression . |
| 12 | Where firms maximise profits in uncompetitive conditions the effect is that consumers are denied goods which they would have been willing to buy at the competitive market price . |
| 13 | But of course these stocks are dependent on the amount of wheat sown in the preceding year ; and that , in its turn was largely influenced by the farmers ' guesses as to the price which they would get for it in this year . |
| 14 | Suddenly an army of civil servants were to surrender substantial proportions of their remuneration and were forced to seek , at no little expense , dispensations from — and at the discretion of — the pope , not a prospect which they would welcome . |
| 15 | Well , she says that the boatmen and wharfers are drawing up a petition which they would like you to look at . |
| 16 | Some will be more businesslike , some will be better equipped , some will be growing , others in decline — all these factors directly affect both the contribution which they could make to a partnership and the objective which they would expect to gain from it . |
| 17 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 18 | The Fine Arts Society denies this , but by lowering the price to £35,000 , just under the export limit , and selling to a foreign buyer , they also avoided the 17% VAT ( sales tax ) on their profit which they would have paid had they sold to a British institution . |
| 19 | Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations . |
| 20 | I E it does n't always serve the food which they would like . |
| 21 | Sometimes Hanka Zborowska would go to the grocer and buy a kilo of red beans which they would share with Modigliani , just to make sure they all had something to eat . |
| 22 | Further , even smaller corporates may be treated as non-private under Rule 5 — 5(4) where they : ( a ) are carrying on a main business which is not investment business ; ( b ) enter into a futures transaction as an integral part of its main business ; ( c ) have , in the firm 's reasonable belief , sufficient experience and understanding to waive protections provided for private customers ; and ( d ) have received a clear warning of the protections under the regulatory system which they would lose , including a statement of its rights to request to be treated as a private customer . |
| 23 | A group of chandlers stood next to a long line of gutted pigs , arguing with their owner about the price of the fat which they would buy to make tallow candles . |
| 24 | The draughtsman no doubt had in mind to cover what he would have called all bona fide transfers , that is to say transfers which would be regarded by the Revenue as not made for any fiscal purpose which they would regard as improper . |
| 25 | This introduced important changes : it removed the requirement that the Court should seek to return the parties to the financial position which they would have been in had their marriage not broken down ; it required the Court to give ‘ first consideration ’ to the welfare of any child of the family ; and it contained a number of provisions designed , in appropriate cases , to emphasise the importance of the parties seeking to become self-sufficient after divorce . |
| 26 | In fact , more often than not the fieldworker took the initiative in this matter ; investigators who build up long-term relationships with communities frequently hear and record material which they would prefer to remain ignorant about . |
| 27 | As we noted before , one of the prime concerns of teachers is that they do not have enough time to carry out the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities of their jobs to their own satisfaction , let alone to invest in enhancing their own skills , or reflecting on their roles and priorities , to anything like the extent which they would like . |
| 28 | Prisoners were to be made to perform productive work within the prison in a consistent and regular manner in order that they should acquire rational work habits which they would continue after release instead of returning to crime . |