Example sentences of "which one would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was well and in good form , but unfortunately I never see her now without Herman Schrijver John Pope-Hennessy was the fourth ) , and he is so frivolous and gossippy [ sic ] — which one would love in other circumstances — that Ivy never says anything interesting , and there are always the same conversations . |
| 2 | What is reading ? — a simple question to which one would expect a simple answer . |
| 3 | ( i ) Aliens — this ground of disqualification , which one would expect , attaches apparently by the Status of Aliens Act 1914 . |
| 4 | The one organization which one would expect workers would see as being part of their own world ( one of the ‘ us ’ ) would be trade unions . |
| 5 | The heads of the metatarsals were fused , which one would expect to be accomplished by nineteen years , but fusion had not taken place in the secondary pelvic centres . |
| 6 | This was the traditional pattern which one would expect to see continued , as indeed it was , into the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | Or as Krafft-Ebing put it , ‘ The sexual functions of men exercise a very marked influence upon the development and preservation of character ’ , so that manliness and self reliance were not the qualities which one would expect from the ‘ impotent onanist ’ . |
| 8 | ( The parallelism of the three statements is interrupted by the different form of the third , and the particular words used for male and female , which are not those which one would expect , are the same as those which the Septuagint — the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures with which Paul would have been familiar — uses in the Genesis verse. ) 34 If this is the case , then Paul is in effect saying that the subordination , which owes to the fall , is overcome in Christ , the second Adam . |
| 9 | The most noteworthy cases are those which one would expect to be pleonastic , but are not . |
| 10 | One of the many unusual facets of Hannah Hauxwell is her reaction to certain situations which would daunt much more apparently sophisticated people and which one would expect to be overwhelming for a simple soul from the back of beyond , such as meeting , on level terms some of the famous and mighty , or appearing in front of milling crowds and even standing up to address them . |
| 11 | But if time is not too desperately important it is one way of seeing a vast stretch of surprising and magnificent country , some interesting and unspoiled old towns , perhaps even of discovering some village in the heart of the still primitive agricultural Auvergne , some little-known hotel where one would like to stay instead of hurrying on , to which one would return another year . |
| 12 | They were blue eyes , which one would guess might have been quite piercingly blue when she was younger . |
| 13 | For that purpose one must sometimes accept a composition of a team or delegation that in abstract terms is different from that which one would wish . |
| 14 | There are far fewer areas in the simulated map about which one would risk a definitive statement than in the map from the unsimulated process . |
| 15 | This list represents a normative , desirable combination of all the good things which one would like broadcasting organizations to do . |
| 16 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 17 | Just send one of them in here and then I 'll see if I can er I do n't mind really I 'll see if I can which one would like me to chat up for you I suppose really that 's basically it . |
| 18 | This represents a notional calculation of the benefit gained by living in one 's own house or , in other words , the rent which one would consider paying for the use of the house . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the pure climatic-geomorphological point of view involves two basic assumptions , which one would hesitate to make . |
| 20 | In the corner between the window and the fireside was a cupboard , apparently full of plates and dishes , cups and saucers , and some more nondescript articles , for which one would have fancied their possessors could find no use — such as triangular pieces of glass to save carving knives and forks from dirtying tablecloths . |
| 21 | There would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time . |
| 22 | which one would have , I think probably with any don in Oxford at the moment . |
| 23 | Trying an idea out on somebody is a very good way of exposing flaws in your argument , and in fact if we look at the present energy debate , so much of it is concerned with interpretation which one would have thought , taking a simple view of science , were just factual matters that we realize that this discussion of science is perhaps more difficult than people would imagine , so there is opportunity in the course to try and help students to become more fluent in scientific discussion , discussion of scientific ideas between themselves , and of their own ideas about science . |