Example sentences of "[indef pn] [Wh det] [modal v] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wilson commented on the BBC doing nothing which would do a disservice to Linfield Football Club , but I could say the same about Glenavon . |
| 2 | Therefore , if it is at all possible , I should prefer nothing which would upset the group to emerge for another week . " |
| 3 | Leases and contracts have been entered into , but I have seen nothing which would prevent the regulation of operating hours . |
| 4 | In the drawing room , where they had drunk their pre-dinner sherry , Dalgliesh had a sense of a room which deliberately rejected the past , containing nothing which could violate the owner 's essential privacy ; no family history in photograph or portrait , no shabby heirlooms given room out of nostalgia , sentimentality or family piety , no antiques collected over the years . |
| 5 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 6 | It would be advisable to build in at the planning stage something which would create a need for co-operation on the new planet . |
| 7 | That is one of the things that writing does : it entices the reader into an ‘ unreal ’ world , a world ‘ really ’ only composed of funny marks on a page , and through those marks makes the reader consider something which may form no part of normal life . |
| 8 | ‘ However , I can tell you something which may have a bearing on your stubbornness . ’ |
| 9 | For the first time ever , Athelstan had a piece of evidence , something that would fit , something which might unlock the rat of the secrets . |
| 10 | Permission to sell a commission or permission to purchase one was again something which might involve the intervention of a politician . |
| 11 | Marketing is something which should pervade the entire organisation . |
| 12 | ‘ I show you something which could change the face of your world , ’ he said , ‘ but it does not impress you . ’ |
| 13 | Even though I now encourage my class to use any methods they like , there are still times when I wished I had not said something which could inhibit a pupil 's thinking . |
| 14 | ‘ He obviously enjoys being involved in something which could mark a new stage in his career . |
| 15 | Christianity will deny that it condones selfishness , but it serves no purpose to promise something which can have no appeal unless it satisfies a desire , and then in another context to label that appeal the product of a baser instinct . |
| 16 | We need something dramatic to focus it , either to introduce something which will create a potential for change in this situation ( which will potentially destabilise the situation ) or pick up on something going on in the groups which will have the same effect ; we need to focus on an issue . |
| 17 | ‘ I can prescribe something which will cure the chancre , ’ said the doctor . |
| 18 | In such conditions what is needed is something which will fill the hunger gap quickly and with as little movement as possible — when passing food through the little Niagara Falls running off the hood of my waterproof — deeply envied those astronauts who can squeeze a whole meal into their mouth from a plastic ‘ toothpaste ’ tube . |
| 19 | It may not necessarily impair the reliability of data in the computer that you feed in something which will produce a result more favourable to a customer than the store holder intended . |
| 20 | The planners tried to devise one which would do the least damage to the existing street pattern . |
| 21 | The sexual content would not , Nicholson always believed , guarantee that the film would become a major commercial success ; nonetheless he thought it was a film worth making , one which would make a statement and provide BBS with a good return . |
| 22 | Instead they decided to get money from GLEB and the trade unions to do a proper feasibility study — one which would deliver an unanswerable case for investment . |
| 23 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 24 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 25 | The University would prefer a truly discretionary system of salary awards , i.e. one which would give the University complete freedom to decide how to disburse the whole of the national settlement . |
| 26 | On May 9 the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Arthit Urairat , announced that the government and opposition parties had agreed on a number of constitutional revisions , including one which would bar a non-elected person , such as Suchinda , from becoming Prime Minister . |
| 27 | Aristide , in turn , had assured the OAS that he was willing to find a " national solution " to the crisis , one which would safeguard the rights of all sections of society , if respect were shown for the Constitution and if his presidency were recognised . |
| 28 | For several reasons : it was a simple objective , and one which would have the enthusiastic support of her squad ; it was the only result which would avenge the deaths of Johannsen and the Raistrick crew ; and it would cause the maximum damage to the Spinward Corporation . |
| 29 | Griffiths wanted a much simpler experimental material than wood or steel and one which would have an uncomplicated brittle fracture , for these reasons he chose glass as what is now called a ‘ model ’ material . |
| 30 | I apologise for any offence given but there has been another death , though one which may resolve the mysteries which have plagued us . ’ |