Example sentences of "few [noun] which [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The M forty not running too badly at the moment , although between junction two and junction seven there are a fair few roadworks which could hold you up throughout your journey . |
| 2 | Count Tolstoy is refusing to back down and says new evidence will emerge in the next few days which will vindicate him . |
| 3 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 4 | It is impossible to detail every virtue or fault you should look for when making your choice , but here I list a few pointers which may help . |
| 5 | Of course people need places to stay when on holiday and I 'm all for economical breaks such as caravanning , but I have a few suggestions which might help to improve the look of unsightly caravan parks . |
| 6 | As things currently stand , and there are no compelling reasons to think that matters will suddenly change , there are few theories which could meet the standard of being directly testable , though there are more subsidiary theories within larger frameworks which do gain , or lose , plausibility in light of empirical evidence . |
| 7 | We stared in stunned shock , realising that the pilot must have made one last superhuman effort not to come down right on our heads , but then just could n't manage those last few yards which would have brought them safely onto the runway . |
| 8 | Evidence for this is so freely available even within a single language that it may be overlooked ; a random pair of examples from English , one abstract , one " concrete " , would be those in ( 40 ) and ( 41 ) , each showing the same notion present twice but only once in the guise of a noun : ( 40 ) the male ape has amazing strength the male ape is amazingly strong ( 41 ) Steve 's scarf was greasy there was grease on Steve 's scarf The question is not essentially affected by the need to enter certain caveats related to the superficial grammar of the language concerned ; thus in English , unlike for example Russian or Latin , there are relatively few nouns which can instantiate an entity without some article or other determiner playing a supporting part . |