Example sentences of "[coord] which [vb mod] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
| 2 | Turning to the use of fuels for IC vehicles which do not use up vital oil reserves or which may be used when oil is no longer available , the use of hydrogen has been suggested as one of the answers to future transport fuel needs . |
| 3 | Information can be gathered by means of a questionnaire which new adherents are either invited to fill in themselves , or which can be completed in an interview by one of the church leaders . |
| 4 | Secure ground floor windows first and any window which ca n't be seen from the street or which can be reached from a drainpipe or flat roof . |
| 5 | These take the curriculum and re-present it in ‘ bite-sized pieces ’ , usually in courses of between 20 and 30 hours , which may be put together for an award like GCSE or which can be taken as free-standing units . |
| 6 | But he expresses this by saying that we ‘ can proceed no farther by reasoning than to things which must be exposed again to experience or which can be evidenced by means of some appearance ’ ; and this seems to suggest something new . |
| 7 | Findings which are replicated throughout a number of countries , or which can be shown to vary under specified conditions , become much more powerful since ‘ an explanatory theory of industrial relations can not be based upon the narrow range of industrial relations processes observable in one , or even a few , countries ’ ( Walker , 1967 , p. 108 ) . |
| 8 | For example , in 1988 the Secretary of State for Wales , Peter Walker , announced a £500 million revitalization programme for the valleys of South Wales , which would involve land reclamation , business advice and support , factory construction , housing rehabilitation and infrastructural investment , and which would be implemented by local authorities , the private sector , central government and the Welsh Development Agency . |
| 9 | Instead , it preferred the creation of a national body for public sector higher education along the lines of the University Grants Committee which would directly control the polytechnics and colleges and which would be made up of nominees of the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | The Divisional Court in that case distinguished between the obtaining of evidence for use in a trial , ‘ direct ’ material , which constituted ‘ testimony ’ under that Act and which would be gathered in response to a Letter of Request , and the obtaining of ‘ indirect ’ material , which might lead to a line of enquiry pointing to actual evidence ; the English courts would not assist a foreign court to obtain such ‘ indirect ’ material . |
| 11 | Without the authority to initiate change , more harm than good would be done by reforms which may get stuck half-way , and which would be resented by heads and teachers in all the schools . |
| 12 | It proposes setting up a sort of Federal Reserve system of central banks in which all 15 republics would be represented — and which would be told not to lend to the government . |
| 13 | Items which are purchased with the vessel and which would be sold with it , are normally to be considered as part of the hull and machinery and will be covered even if not specifically declared on the proposal . |
| 14 | He was still distressed , however , by the prolific trade in mutton bird feathers , two-and-a-half tons of which could be taken in a season — the produce of roughly 112,000 birds — and which would be sold for about 6d per pound in Launceston . |
| 15 | the replacement of domestic rates by a community charge which each authority would set and which would be paid by every adult ( not just householders ) resident in its area . |
| 16 | Accepting that a group of countries should proceed to a political or monetary union would be to accept the creation of a Greater European Superstate on the continent of Europe over which the non participants would have minimal control and which would be dominated by Germany . |
| 17 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 18 | The kinds of activities which we had in mind were problem-solving and investigations , collaborative writing , reading and discussion about books and poems in pairs and groups , group picture or collage making , group construction tasks , group activities on the computer : the sorts of activities whose value is widely accepted and which might be included in the repertoire of any teacher , regardless of differences in overall teaching style . |
| 19 | There is a passage in Mr Palomar which plays on the dialectic between speech ( or communicative language ) and silence and which might be taken to foreshadow the structure of the book as a whole . |
| 20 | The percentage of effective votes , that is votes which clearly contributed to the election of a candidate and which may be regarded as a measure of voter satisfaction , throughout the Province remained unchanged at nearly 88% . |
| 21 | An upperplate margin is formed by crust lying above the detachment fault while a lower-plate margin is developed on deeper crustal rocks lying below the detachment zone and which may be overlain by faulted fragments of the upper plate . |
| 22 | Think of the male statues which are even now being exposed at Sydenham without adequate covering and which may be viewed by innocent girls ! " |
| 23 | In a letter to members , the Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association warns against schemes ‘ with no guarantee of adequate resources ; which may blur the process of professional development with the identification of alleged weaknesses for disciplinary purposes ; and which may be used as a crude and inequitable process for relating salary rates to arbitrarily judged levels of performance ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ It would be wrong for water users in the next five to ten years to be asked to finance the whole cost of projects which have been neglected in the past and which may be expected to last for 30 , 50 or even 100 years . |
| 25 | Does he further agree that that needs to be a Europe which is not only open and ready to trade fully with the rest of the world , but also ready to grapple with the greatest danger facing European stability , a danger which was scarcely mentioned at Maastricht , and which must be faced by ensuring that the nations of eastern Europe make it all the way to open democracies and that the vast and scattered nuclear arsenal of the former Soviet Union is brought under proper control and we prevent a great proliferation of nuclear weapons in the successor states ? |
| 26 | Homogeneous catalysts are compounds of metals that dissolve in the reaction mixture and which must be separated from it at the end . |
| 27 | Am I alone in questioning the wisdom of giving a gift which the donor can not afford and which must be paid at the ludicrous interest of 25 per cent or so charged by the credit card companies ? |
| 28 | As to the periods of restraint , the court observed that their reasonableness was " hardly susceptible of proof by specific evidence " , " some weight should be given to the fact that the restriction is found in a partnership agreement which has evidently been carefully drafted and which must be taken to represent the views of experienced solicitors who would be well aware that an unduly severe restriction would be unenforceable " . |
| 29 | Science is a collective enterprise ; over time , researchers build up a body of wisdom which tells them which are the important variables to include when modelling a particular process , and which must be controlled . |
| 30 | Second , as the concept is one of developing powers downwards , inevitably it will be the Community which decides the residue decisions with which it does not wish to deal and which should be devolved downwards — the crumbs from the Community table . |