Example sentences of "of [noun] which would [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives .
2 On June 7 , the government named a committee of experts which would draw up proposals for a draft constitution on the basis of previous constitutions and the report of the National Commission of Democracy , which advocated an executive president and a national assembly , both to be elected on the basis of universal suffrage , an independent judiciary and guarantees of human rights .
3 The ideal type codifies a scheme of reasons which would motivate someone who was wholly a bureaucrat , and understanding proceeds from what such purely rational — legal persons would think and do .
4 Hartlepool Council 's policy and resources committee agreed to renew its £3,000 subscription to Teesside Tomorrow for 1992/93 after hearing that the organisation had become involved in a number of projects which would benefit the town .
5 ‘ I 've got a list a lot longer than my arm of projects which would benefit from financial support , ’ he said .
6 Wh what you 're also saying is , is right though , that within that the danger is that inequalities get too great and you would also need a set of policies which would stop that inequality .
7 It was recognised by the defendants that when the employment of an agent came to an end it was likely that there would be in existence a number of policies which would have been effected during the period of the plaintiff 's employment in respect of which commission would normally be paid in future years if the employment had continued .
8 This , coupled with the rise of a narrower version of monetarism , was to clear the ground for a far more extreme school of macroeconomics which would make adherents to old style monetarism look like liberal wimps .
9 We believe that a Conservative Government , putting the provision of homes above the sanctity of unpractical doctrines , could stimulate a rate of building which would rise rapidly year by year .
10 Materiality is the monetary amount of misstatement which would affect the user of an account ; the amount is a matter of judgement depending on the circumstances of the case .
11 Later in the year , fund-raisers at the college are also hoping to buy two emergency bakeries from the Ministry of Defence which would have fed Britain after a nuclear attack .
12 On the basis of the definitions you find , you could even construct your own definition of Romanticism which would help give direction to your essay .
13 The recurring themes of Griffiths ' managerialism are action , effectiveness , thrust , urgency and vitality , management budgeting , sensitivity to consumer satisfaction and an approach to management of personnel which would reward good performance and ultimately sanction poor performance with dismissal .
14 This decision was described as exceptional in Alexander v Standard Telephones & Cables Ltd ( 1990 ) , where the High Court reasserted the traditional principle that the courts should refuse to grant an injunction to restrain a breach of contract which would force an employer to provide work for an employee he does not wish to employ .
15 The Law Society , recognising that savings have to be found , has put together a package of proposals which would give the looked-for savings but would not have the damaging effects of the Government 's plans .
16 But do n't you feel uncomfortable , you as a member of the medical profession , do n't you feel uncomfortable if there exists in the wider world a set of rules which would condemn as one of the most heinous crimes that which you regard as the most humane of conduct ?
17 I do not believe that it is possible to produce a predictive model of code switching , in other words , to derive inductively a set of rules which would predict the actual code of any " next utterance " in a conversation .
18 Not one Bank Assistant is earning a level of income which would qualify for consideration for a loan from any of the Bank 's Subsidiaries .
19 Through the layers of their clothing she could feel Penry 's heart beating steadily against her back , and dreaded the moment of parting which would come all too soon when they reached journey 's end in Chastlecombe .
20 Nobody can suggest that you can by any arithmetical calculation establish what is the exact sum of money which would represent such a thing as the pain and suffering which a person has undergone by reason of an accident …
21 British Petroleum South Africa underwrote the cost of the tour , so no material loss was incurred , but either way the action deprived the West Indian Board coffers of a large amount of money which would have been ploughed back into very necessary ground and youth development in the region .
22 The denial of opportunity which would arise from the operation of a different curriculum is not , however , inherent in the educational process .
23 The court accepted the view of the executive that to give advance notice of their intentions would run the risk of action which would disrupt the operation of the intelligence services .
24 Third , more recently , local government auditors have been given powers of early intervention when a local authority has taken a decision which would involve unlawful expenditure or a course of action which would lead to unlawful loss .
25 In the letter , Mr Lilley says : ‘ I propose a three-pronged course of action which would focus the benefit more closely on the long-term sick , make it less generous and make it taxable . ’
26 Their mutual nature also explains why , until 1983 , the Building Societies ' Association ( BSA ) was able to operate a system of ‘ recommended ( interest ) rates ’ , a form of cartel which would have been illegal for public companies .
27 Presumably if we 're now looking at commitment in the wider area of search which would draw in many additional parishes , I think in the Harrogate case er something like seven to eight additional parishes , er if we look at commitments there would we also need to revise the housing need figure as well ?
28 His search for a style of living which would enable him to cultivate his contemplative gifts led him to equate , perhaps sometimes confuse , an interior state with the external mode of achieving it .
29 Even when that object was not consciously in view most proposals for Masai development tended in practice towards that end , their essential ingredient being some measure designed to move the Masai away from the semi-nomadism they had immemorially practised towards a way of living which would make it easier for administrators to keep a benevolent eye on them .
30 Richard Rolle 's at times flamboyant attempt to arrive at a form of living which would express his compulsive and impulsive drive towards personal realisation of the love of God , brought the circumstances of his life into prominence .
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