Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] which would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | It is in this context relevant to mention briefly section 9 of the General Rate Act 1967 which provided that an amount paid in respect of rates ‘ and not recoverable apart from this section ’ could properly be refunded on five specified grounds , some of which would fall within the Woolwich principle . |
2 | Although Mrs Thatcher 's opposition will prevent the declaration having any legal force , the Commission President , Mr Jacques Delors , made it clear he would be coming forward with detailed proposals on a range of minimum social rights for workers in the 1992 single market over the next 12 months — some of which would have binding legal force throughout the Community . |
3 | Other field crops included peas and beans before the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries and , later on , numerous new introductions , some of which would have been grown earlier as garden produce but which were grown on a larger scale from the seventeenth and particularly eighteenth centuries . |
4 | There are along the route four long tunnels , each of which would have required attention . |
5 | Thus it is possible that , as a result of letting out contracts for individual services possibly to different suppliers , the aggregate cost of the individual contracts ( each of which would have to be independently viable ) will exceed the combined cost of the original integrated services . |
6 | The revised draft committed its participants to a ‘ sovereign federal democratic state ’ based upon a voluntary union of republics with equal rights , each of which would have the right to choose its own forms of property and government . |
7 | Our outfit comes to £211 — still expensive but these dresses are quality items each of which would look good on their own . |
8 | May 11 In a statement issued in Luxembourg , the six GCC countries offer to send an observer to a regional peace conference , thereby partly satisfying Israeli demands that all Arab states play a role in the peace process ( the observer status was devised to differentiate the Gulf states from the " front-line " Arab states bordering Israel , each of which would receive a full seat ) . |
9 | Before this time , as Froissart was to note and Edward III to experience , many towns had no proper defences other than what could be provided by ditches and water works , neither of which would cause a determined army much trouble . |
10 | They wanted the stimulus package , much of which would have been spent in inner cities . |
11 | There are remains of four levels of wall , the lowest of which would have had wooden gates to protect its main entrance . |
12 | Two hypotheses are worth mentioning , either of which would account for a significant number of cases . |
13 | During the course of March , however , anti-abortionists attempted to enact laws in Guam and Idaho , either of which would have forced the Supreme Court to decide upon the legality of the core of the Roe v. Wade judgment . |
14 | Do not the figures also herald the demise of the flying pickets , rent-a-mobs , people with crowbars , people who fire ball bearings at horses and place cheesewire across the throats of horses and people who drop concrete slabs off bridges , all of which would stop inward investment into the United Kingdom ? |
15 | All of which would make for a rave review , were it not for the fact that , for all their charm , the Jays ' every move oozes lamentable irrelevance . |
16 | The scheme would apply to works of art , collector 's items and antiquities ; it would not apply to precious metals and stones nor to works supplied by their authors or inheritors , all of which would pay VAT on the full selling price . |
17 | All of which would produce rueful sighs among the backers of a small Cornish mine called Wheal Concord . |
18 | If he was really concerned about unemployment , he would persuade the Labour party to abandon its minimum wage and jobs tax proposals and its embracing of the European Community social charter , all of which would add hundreds of thousands of people to the dole queues . |
19 | Above all , the three-part test of obscenity adopted by the Court in 1966 was strengthened , laying down three essential conditions , all of which would have to be satisfied in every case : |
20 | All of which would have been bad enough without Charlotte 's final revelation . |
21 | The villa at Box , Wilts. , had pavements of white limestone ( used for much of the background work ) , blue-black lias , a dark-grey/ chocolate-coloured pennant stone , red from broken tiles and yellow oolite ; all of which would have been procurable within about five miles of the site . |
22 | Engineers , whose prime objective had been to maximise net revenue , originally had put forward four proposals for the upgrading of the junction , all of which would have made the head-on collision of two trains on a single-track section of line outside the station impossible . |
23 | The Churchill Bill in 1986 included a list of proscribed depictions any one of which would attract a conviction for obscenity irrespective of context or effect on the viewer . |
24 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
25 | The delight of the Gloucester supporters was in no way diminished by the fact that Barnes had missed three easy kicks at goal , any one of which would have wrapped up the game for Bath . |
26 | Both authorities emphasised the importance of the health helpline to start from April 1 on which would offer the chance of feedback from patients with grievances . |
27 | There may be a booklet on the subject , a special expert in the technical department who has sat on the relevant government fact-finding commission or a market research survey giving the latest market trends , any of which would help the journalists far more than the standard handouts . |
28 | Does the honorary scorer appreciate that on an average sized square ‘ a permanent spot at square leg ’ would involve literally dozens of ‘ spots ’ , only four of which would relate to the pitch in use , unless the suggestion is for removable plastic markers positioned for each game , but those would n't be permanent would they ? |
29 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
30 | cuts in defence expenditure , both of which are irresponsible and both of which would have a devastating effect on our capacity to defend ourselves . |