Example sentences of "which [modal v] [vb infin] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , in order to diminish any noxious or injurious effects a local authority can make byelaws under s.108(2) of the 1936 Act which may lay down specific standards and ensure good housekeeping practice . |
| 2 | Requests for assistance or consultation lead to a fairly high level of interruption and noise in the office , which may slow down other work and even make holding a telephone conversation difficult . |
| 3 | Gon na go on now to talk about a severe condition which may start out that with a minor skin rash like this , this is called a petechial skin rash they later progress to rather more generalised rash and in it 's most severe form it 's mucrotic |
| 4 | There are two forms of sub-slate roof-deck construction favoured by the traditional builders which may store up serious problems for restorers of old buildings once a breach has occurred in the roof covering . |
| 5 | ‘ We survived the Exhilarator and I think we got some candid camera shots which may come in handy . |
| 6 | If you are buying then you will have a survey done , which may point out some of the defects . |
| 7 | Natural ‘ screening ’ processes which may wed out defective eggs or sperm are by-passed , the mother is subjected to a regime of hormone injections to bring on ovulation , and the gametes and embryo are subjected to various mechanical manipulations . |
| 8 | The advancing delta front , especially if there is constructive wave action and longshore drift as on the Rhone delta , will be fringed with spits and bars , which may cut off coastal lagoons . |
| 9 | The research problem is large in scale and this particular project is seen as a pilot study which should open up further fruitful areas of analysis . |
| 10 | Test with a skewer , which should come out clean . |
| 11 | The machines have built-in fans — which should come in handy for any Pentium-based cousins no doubt — and come with removable 80Mb , 120Mb or 200Mb 2.5″ disks . |
| 12 | The pattern caused problems , in that the circumstances which might trigger off renewed fighting were unpredictable ; yet the moment an opportunity offered , princes had to be prepared for invading their enemies ; there was no time for lengthy preparation . |
| 13 | The KGB owed MI6 a favour which might come in handy one day . |
| 14 | Which might fill in those five weeks if you want it . |
| 15 | ‘ She has never done or said anything which could help out these pensioners who will be greatly angered by this flamboyant display of wealth . ’ |
| 16 | Another audio item which need take up little room is an extension microphone — useful if only as a means of eliminating the pick-up of camcorder operating noise in quiet conditions if this happens to be a weakness of your machine . |
| 17 | Another example would be a picture made up of shades of grey , when you could accompany a grey or silver frame with a pale mount , perhaps dove grey in colour , with a dark charcoal backing which would show off all the silvery grey leaves and white flowers in the design . |
| 18 | Harrison argued that an enduring Afghan settlement would have to be accompanied by parallel understandings between the United States , the USSR and China designed to neutralise Pakistan and Iran as arenas of Great Power conflict , which would rule out military alliances and special military relationships . |
| 19 | Except that the fire is definitely located in the nose cone , which would rule out any engine explosion . |
| 20 | So , unless he planned to lie there until nightfall , which would rule out any possibility of his getting up to town to give his evening 's performance , he had to make a move . |
| 21 | They allow us furthermore to describe not the great history which would carry along all the sciences in a single trajectory , but the types of history — that is to say , of retentivity and transformation — which characterize different discourses … the episteme is not a slice of history common to all the sciences : it is a simultaneous play of specific remanences . |
| 22 | Each group of headlines , furthermore , ‘ consists of two sets , one for the outer forme [ the forme containing the two pages which would end up outermost when the sheet was folded — ppa/8 , 9/16 and so on ] and another for the inner , and the various headlines in each set appear in the same sequence whenever used ’ ( p.300 ) . |
| 23 | For the most part , land that has been set aside is of poor conservation value , and has not been managed in a way which would bring out environmental benefits . |
| 24 | This increasingly impossible situation was brought to a head when the Parlement was temporarily exiled to Pontoise in 1720 and threatened with the creation of new judicial institutions which would take over much of its work . |
| 25 | This would protect the holdings against a future decline of the dollar , but at the cost of pushing the risk on to the United States if it were required to compensate the IMF ( which would take over these dollar holdings ) for any losses . |
| 26 | He wanted a campaign of direct action and mass protest , not an organisation which would take up individual cases of discrimination . |
| 27 | Lastly I told him that there was supposed to be a plan for a British submarine which would take off escaped prisoners somewhere near La Spezia , and I produced some maps of the area which I had managed to get from a book seller friend of mine in Parma . |
| 28 | Four young men were appearing on chargers of peddling drugs , an old lady had had her hand chopped off whilst attempting to retain her purse , containing just two and eightpence , and a motorway to end all motorways was proposed which would wipe out six particularly exquisite villages and several hundred miles of countryside . |
| 29 | The dimensions of further work which would fill out these early findings and explore further organizational effects are sketched . |
| 30 | These are the establishment of an ethical committee which would weed out corrupt party officials , the disbanding of the notorious workers guard , a declaration that the new party would hand back to the nation a substantial chunk of the old party loot , and a resolution calling on all parties , including their own , to withdraw from workplaces . |