Example sentences of "which [verb] [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The provision of state pensions for such people was a welcome addition to the incomes of the extended households they almost invariably belonged to ; it supplemented and sometimes replaced the help which lineages would otherwise have given . |
| 2 | The results showed the race would always require a strong element of commercial sponsorship , an area in which LEEL would not see itself becoming directly involved . ’ |
| 3 | A major subject area with which NAB will certainly have to get fully to grips is initial teacher training , and it has recently announced its intention of examining this area in time to make recommendations for 1984–5 . |
| 4 | It seems that there are some minds which travel will never broaden : vulgarity , riotous behaviour , high spirits and horseplay have scandalized the establishment since the birth of tourism — the 1980s Costa Brava lager lout had his parallel in the Victorian excursionist . |
| 5 | Lucien immediately recognised the movements of the dance as being those of a classical piece : Paradouze being taught the sequences of the Vibrancy by His uncle , the cat-headed snake Smoobillow , a body of knowledge which Paradouze would later pass on to humankind . |
| 6 | The case , brief and obscure though it is , might well have provided a basis upon which judges could later have built to develop a principle that money demanded ultra vires by a public authority was prima facie recoverable . |
| 7 | The expertise of the adviser in the particular problem which emerges will doubtless influence the proposed course of action ( which might include a referral ) but the preliminary advisory skills may be possessed by a volunteer as by a professional . |
| 8 | Is this a conclusion which Nozick must simply accept , abandoning his claim to total success and pointing merely to the admitted partial success ? |
| 9 | Voters had to decide in conscience ‘ whether other factors outweigh the damage which divorce would certainly cause to individuals , to families , to children and to the whole of society ’ ( Irish Times , 13 June 1986 ) . |