Example sentences of "which they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 2 | The survey of 866 dentists in the dental journal The Probe , says : ‘ When dentists were asked whether they had extracted , or referred for extraction , any teeth which they might not have done before the introduction of the 1990 contract , 61 per cent said they had , while nearly 37 per cent said they had not . ’ |
| 3 | In the same period , kin links were an important mechanism for recruiting labour , and so living in the parental household would have given young people increased chances of finding work , as well as providing them with accommodation which they might not have been able to afford on their own . |
| 4 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 5 | Since unemployed workers are expecting zero price inflation , they perceive the rise in money wages ( 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 ) as a rise in real wages and some of them accept job offers which they might otherwise have refused . |
| 6 | However , on behalf of many of my constituents — I am sure that this is true for many other people around the country — I should like to stress that , although none of us thought in 1979 that we would be discussing this situation today , as a result of it many of our constituents have received a quality of life far superior to that which they might otherwise have had . |
| 7 | Most of the Royal Navy 's frigates in the south Atlantic carried their own Exocets ( Britain is the biggest customer for the missile ) , which they might well have fired against Argentinian ships in an all-out naval war . |
| 8 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 9 | In the new circumstances , ministers may feel justified in taking a little longer to reach their conclusions so that they can not be accused of hasty actions which they might later regret . |
| 10 | To do that would be an achievement because at present the unchartable wilderness of trees seemed as unstable a nowhere as a cloudless sky or as fields under a carpet of snow , a world in which they might go round and round , and from which they might never emerge , a world in which there was no point in going anywhere for the reason that there simply was … nowhere . |
| 11 | It must be remembered that it is often difficult to get people to express themselves freely , that there is a tendency in any survey for interviewees to say what they think they are expected to say , and that individuals frequently find it hard to express subjective views on an aspect of their life which they might never have consciously considered before . |
| 12 | But it seems to me to have the twofold advantages of first specifying with precision what it is that the parties have agreed , thus avoiding the possibility of misunderstanding or mistake , and , secondly , it enables the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may tentatively determine to depart from the agreed package . |
| 13 | People will be willing to insure ( effectively saving money which they may never get back ) against contingencies which , if they occurred , would entail a drastic reduction in their standard of living . |
| 14 | Eleven such triple junctions , each possibly associated with a separate hot spot , have been identified on the continental part of the African Plate and an intriguing problem is the way in which they may subsequently promote continental rupture and develop into spreading centres . |
| 15 | It familiarizes students with those theories by which they may better understand themselves , the society in which they live and their role within it . |
| 16 | This suggests that some system of control must be introduced if farmers are to be persuaded to retain the wildlife habitats or landscape features which they would otherwise destroy . |
| 17 | He has certainly demonstrated that he is a ‘ draw ’ : there must already be some 250 Conservative MPs in his debt for turning out an audience at least double that which they would otherwise have been able to collect . |
| 18 | The new Germany was to bind Prussia in and neutralise her : it was to accord a security to the other states which they would otherwise have lacked . |
| 19 | There was a fear that as such centres were validated , local colleges would see a reduction in the number of students which they would otherwise have expected to attract . |
| 20 | This is the Government who have stopped pensioners getting an annual increase in line with Community living standards , a deliberate act of policy in 1980 , which cumulatively so far — according to a parliamentary answer to me on 25 November last — has removed from pensioners £31.8 billion of improved pensions which they would otherwise have had . |
| 21 | This was not uncommon in some mining districts and even existed in the craft trade of hat making , the artisans who took in their wives to pick the coarse hairs from their material saving the 6 to 9s ( 30-45p ) a week which they would otherwise have had to pay from their wage . |
| 22 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 23 | When the emperor took his turn at dinner pouring the tea , an unimaginable reversal of protocol , his awestruck fellow-travellers tapped the table to signify the kow-tows of abasement which they would ordinarily have been performing before him . |
| 24 | They continue to grow well beyond the size at which they would normally change shape and become as big , if not bigger , than the land-living form . |
| 25 | At the appropriate times of the year , caged migrant birds regularly hop in the direction relative to the sun in which they would normally migrate . |
| 26 | Already , too , one may see the start of a symbiotic relationship in which France would increasingly depend upon American resources to achieve purposes which , left to herself , would be beyond her , while American objectives , although they did not entirely coincide with the French and for all the power which they would ultimately deploy , had to include France as a frail but , for the moment , indispensable means by which they might be attained . |
| 27 | Of course we shall want to ensure that their learning becomes more systematic and that their horizons are widened to encompass ways of thinking which they would not encounter if left to their own devices . |
| 28 | All have accepted the social norm , which they would use to condemn others and by which they would not wish to be condemned . |
| 29 | Aylwin stated that this did not apply to the present Chief of the Armed Forces , Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte , the former dictator , who was not due to retire until 1998 , but that it would " re-establish to future presidents of Chile a power which they would not wish to be denied " . |
| 30 | Now although there will obviously be occasions when this belief is warranted , when learners are of an age , for example , at which they would not have the capacity or disposition for analytic self-reflection , there seems no good reason for supposing that the belief is universally valid . |