Example sentences of "which [modal v] [vb infin] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allegations of treason were made concerning the loss of lands in France , a matter which may have particularly concerned the Kentishmen , whose vulnerability to raids was obvious , and who may well have been alarmed by the issue of a commission of array , and a command to set up warning beacons , on 14 April . |
| 2 | Senna , who made no contact with Mansell 's car , escaped unscathed from the incident , which may have seriously diminished Mansell 's hopes of a third successive season-opening triumph here this afternoon . |
| 3 | Here we have something that looks very much like a totalitarian welfare state in microcosm , and which must have powerfully contributed to Schreber 's psychosis , which featured delusions of passive submission to impregnation by an omnipotent solar god . |
| 4 | II Maccabees is not interested in following up the destiny of the Samaritan temple , which must have indirectly benefited from the rebellion of Judas Maccabaeus . |
| 5 | Partly because of the pressures from capital , there were , as Jessop ( 1980 ) notes , no moves to redistribute income , which might have effectively attacked class inequalities ; instead welfare services were used as palliatives . |
| 6 | ( But of course , if they 're wrong it deprives them of one or more credit options which might have actually suited them well . ) |
| 7 | There was an obvious injustice here which could have eventually led to a demand that the ‘ penalised ’ owner should be compensated . |
| 8 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 9 | One faction ( the Bolsheviks — ‘ partisans of the majority ’ ) favoured a narrow definition which would admit only dedicated and disciplined activists , while another ( the Mensheviks — ‘ partisans of the minority ’ ) envisaged a much broader Party enveloping wide sections of the proletariat . |
| 10 | One faction ( the Bolsheviks — ‘ partisans of the majority ’ ) favoured a narrow definition which would admit only dedicated and disciplined activists , while another ( the Mensheviks — ‘ partisans of the minority ’ ) envisaged a much broader party embracing wide sections of the proletariat . |
| 11 | The proposed new European Medicines Evaluation Agency may decide to publish in outline its reasons for granting licences , which would match long established practice in the United States and elsewhere . |
| 12 | ‘ There has been a lot of talk about taxing invalidity benefit , children 's clothes and food which would have drastically affected a lot of people , especially those needing special diets . |
| 13 | The amendment also protects the carrier from claims of ‘ fundamental breach of the contract ’ for misdelivery or deviation which would have otherwise voided the contract and rendered the one year time bar inapplicable . |
| 14 | If they are right , this spares them the refusal which would have otherwise shown up in the main survey as reported difficulty in getting credit . |
| 15 | The swelling letters pages were occupied with responses to Michael Eaves , a correspondent who had suggested axing the ‘ What 's Happening ’ section , record reviews , and ads from the paper — which would have neatly killed it some years before its time — led by a contribution from one of It 's founders , David Mairowitz , ‘ who broke his b***s [ asterisks his ] seeing that It 1–10 got put together and printed . ’ |
| 16 | Although the NF had won the May general election [ see p. 38188 ] it did not have the necessary two-thirds of the seats in the National Assembly which would have automatically awarded its candidate the presidency . |
| 17 | This would eliminate the insiders ' opportunity to profit from insider news , which would have already made its impact on the market . |
| 18 | The church had a narthex set at an oblique angle to one of the outer octagon sides ; it is believed that this was not the original narthex , which would have directly faced the eastern apse ( 195 ) . |
| 19 | For sheltered housing , which would have greatly benefitted some clients , there was a long waiting list . |
| 20 | A motion which would have specifically committed ] the party against fusion was not put on the chairman 's decision ; the diehards accepted this ruling without demur , no doubt because they felt that they had already made their point . |
| 21 | More recently , the Prospect Inn was threatened by an enlargement scheme by Whitbread which would have totally destroyed the remaining original features of the building , and its remarkable plan . |
| 22 | But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy . |
| 23 | His speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 was tame , his creation of a secret committee in 1857 was the traditional way to sweep calls for change under the carpet , the Nazimov Rescript envisaged a form of emancipation which would have severely damaged the peasantry , the relaxation of censorship in January 1858 was short-lived and the provincial tour of 1858 represented yet another futile attempt to persuade nobles to accept a measure they were bent on resisting . |
| 24 | Now they use tractors , some pesticides , some inorganic fertilisers , but nevertheless most of the people of Umbria voted a few weeks ago in favour of a referendum which would have severely restricted the sale , and therefore the consumption , of pesticides . |
| 25 | By 1920 the English Channel Tunnel Company 's scheme for a rail tunnel between Shakespeare Cliff and Sangatte was at an advanced stage of development and had attracted the support of MPs , businessmen and engineers who saw it as a major work of postwar reconstruction which would provide badly needed employment at a time of recession . |
| 26 | Detailed field studies based on a number of primary and secondary schools , in different parts of the country , which will have recently undergone a major evaluation exercise . |
| 27 | While they are happy to predate on anything small enough to swallow — playing havoc with Molly fry for instance — they are not like the Bumble Bee Gobies , ( and the less-well-known Slim Mudskippers Parapocryptes serperaster which we also keep ) which will accept only frozen or live foods . |
| 28 | Heavy fish losses can be experienced under such conditions and it is wise to invest in a pond-pump which will circulate much needed oxygen into the system . |
| 29 | Itching can be intense , and there may be a visible rash , which can become secondarily infected by bacteria . |
| 30 | In relation to these changes , which can evoke highly charged feelings , men and women need to continue to negotiate an acceptable balance in their relationship between being together and being apart . |