Example sentences of "[adj] of [Wh det] 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 | Although the sun shone bright and hot , I hated the thought of Treasure Island , afraid of what would happen there . |
| 5 | There are along the route four long tunnels , each of which would have required attention . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Our outfit comes to £211 — still expensive but these dresses are quality items each of which would look good on their own . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They wanted the stimulus package , much of which would have been spent in inner cities . |
| 12 | Not so much of what would happen . |
| 13 | There are remains of four levels of wall , the lowest of which would have had wooden gates to protect its main entrance . |
| 14 | Two hypotheses are worth mentioning , either of which would account for a significant number of cases . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | All of which would produce rueful sighs among the backers of a small Cornish mine called Wheal Concord . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 : |
| 22 | All of which would have been bad enough without Charlotte 's final revelation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is around this time that the demand for films began to increase substantially and producers built larger studios to produce pictures that , while longer than before , were still some way short of what would become established feature length . |
| 26 | This text — not , it should be noted , a law voted by Parliament — was the first of what would prove to be six major reforms of broadcasting between 1959 and 1988 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |