Example sentences of "which [vb mod] [not/n't] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 You will be faced with one or more prompts , words followed by a colon , eg TRANSFER : which may not have responses already filled in .
2 We often get enquiries from companies which may not have resources to sponsor a tournament , but are anxious to become involved with women 's golf , so we suggest a player sponsorship .
3 Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action .
4 FOREIGN a module pointing to a set of files which should not contain module headers .
5 But C.C. 's abnormal difficulty in judging vertical symmetry is caused by his neglect for the left of figures , which should not disrupt judgements of symmetry about the horizontal axis .
6 It goes without saying that it is not £75,000 in respect of each but the total earnings ’ figure which must not exceed £75,000 .
7 There was , it seemed , no peculiar distinction , however trifling or minute , which might not give value to a volume , providing the indispensable quality of scarcity , or rare occurrence , was attached to it .
8 ‘ There is less wear and tear on top management and it allows us to arrange meetings more quickly which might not take place otherwise , ’ says Royal Bank spokesman Alwyn James , speaking in Technicolor from his studio in Edinburgh . ’
9 The number of companies which could not meet payment orders for lack of sufficient funds rose by 60 per cent .
10 The 6ft 2in Cambridge hit-man took one look at Old Trafford , which could n't tempt Southampton 's Shearer , and decided : ‘ This is the place for me . ’
11 The planned and formulaic rationality of the Enlightenment , according to the critique , is increasingly marked by the familiar , the conventional and by ‘ sameness ’ : a sameness which need not exclude difference , but contains it within the rational , functional and acceptable forms of its own choosing .
12 J is speaking up for himself , which would n't mean shit if ‘ First They Came ’ was n't such a simmering , mystical monster .
13 At the men 's first appeal hearing in 1987 , Skuse said he used a 0.1 per cent solution of caustic soda , which would not dissolve nitrocellulose , but which would also reduce the sensitivity of the test for nitroglycerine .
14 Where the activity involved is one which would not give rise to insuperable planning objections if it were carried out somewhere else , then the planning authority should do all it can to help in finding suitable alternative premises before initiating enforcement action .
15 It might seem that a suitable algorithm could be found which would not generate synonyms .
16 ‘ It was gone , Eric , ’ he had explained , his eyes fidgeting to every part of Colonel Windsor 's crammed office as if seeking some corner which would not awaken images of once familiar surroundings .
17 And if I were to put it , If you have an opportunity of two sites and the development of one is capable of causing damage to existing characteristics and the other is not , would you go for the the one which would not cause damage rather than the one which would , or would you willy-nilly plump for either ?
18 Clearly , the spirit of the laws of this Irish state was to be a religious one and therefore one which would not take account of the then one thousand , and now ten thousand or more of the population in the Southern state who professed no religion .
19 ‘ People come on to the show with IQs which ca n't reach room temperature .
20 This causes onlookers to despair , and TV schedules to go up in smoke , which ca n't please Philip Morris , the sponsor .
21 As part of the programme teams of workers planted more than 30,000 trees and shrubs , many of which will not reach maturity until the next century .
22 With food around , surfaces should bc as practical as possible : choose flooring which will not show crumbs and can be mopped up easily ; sideboards should bc provided with protective covers if they are not heatproof ; traditional polished tables might look good , but with children around , you may be better off going for a heatproof , scrubbable surface which can be wiped over quickly ; upholstery should be washable ; wallpaper need not be as tough as the vinyl-coated varieties .
23 The professor said that the plans , which will not involve incineration , followed the region 's appointment of consultants to come up with the best environmental option for the disposal of the region 's sewage sludge without excessive cost .
24 But there is one theory which will not hold water for a moment ; and that is , that we were sent here to maintain the present Government in office .
25 There seems little point in wasting research time on the incidence of old age abuse ; as with child abuse , it can lead to a kind of spurious precision , in which figures are cited which will not bear scrutiny for three main reasons .
26 But it is Lily Greenwood , shopkeeper 's daughter , it is my wedding which will not take place .
27 The advantage of random access files lies in the speed of accessing a particular record via the algorithm ( which will not produce files in sequential order ) .
28 According to Ms Leith , the designers have gone for a ‘ serious and conventional restaurant ’ look ‘ which will not frighten members with too much yuppie jazzdom ’ , but which is also fun — ‘ witty , modern and stylish enough to encourage them to come ’ .
29 I went down the steps at the sign of the big neon M. I put a five-copeck piece into the automatic entrance which wo n't prevent non-payers travelling but buses in order to embarrass them .
30 Firemen want people to wear clothes which wo n't catch fire .
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