Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [Wh det] they might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had felt all my life that lavatory and bedroom doors should be kept firmly shut , for fear of what they might reveal . |
| 2 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 3 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |
| 4 | The great families of Rome had fortified towers or residences from which they might control the main routes in and out of the city . |
| 5 | I argued that there was a lack of clarity ( or clear research evidence ) concerning what these appropriate qualities might be , an unfortunate tendency to abstract approved-of skills from consideration of the contextual circumstances in which they might need to be employed , and an inclination to present a one-sided interpretation of the implications of specialist subject expertise for teaching quality . |
| 6 | By contrast in Kufra people did acknowledge circumstances in which they might have to unite with their enemies ; in 1978 they did in fact do so . |
| 7 | In 1341 England and France found both a cause and a theatre of war in which they might meddle further . |
| 8 | It can hardly be of great value to them out on the open ocean where they spend the bulk of their time , except perhaps to detect the stench of a floating carcass on which they might feed . |
| 9 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 10 | First , internecine rivalries ensured that his opponents would never join forces to oust him ; for that reason alone , they would be allowed to continue , though never to reach a point at which they might get out of hand and overwhelm him . |
| 11 | Her tone made it clear that if he wished , coffee was only the beginning of what they might have time for . |
| 12 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 13 | Furthermore , when dates are suggested for changes in these forms , they are usually given , without comment , as the dates at which the changes took place in this standard variety or its unilinear precursor , and not the dates at which they might have taken place in some other variety . |
| 14 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 15 | He also believes that despite the crowd 's impatience with what they might think is play-acting , 95pc of players who get treatment on the field really do need it . |
| 16 | Mr Davies has now written to me in connection with his research on BCR , saying — ‘ if anyone would like to help I can certainly suggest ways in which they might do so . |
| 17 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 18 | There are a number of ways in which they might become interested in the subject . |
| 19 | The political feasibility of dangling before Indians a prize at which they might gaze but which they would never grasp was assured , Irwin told Salisbury , by the fact that Indians in their heart of hearts knew they would always need British administrators to guide them . |
| 20 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 21 | The shuttle had no on-board weaponry : not a single missile , not even a laser with which they might have tried to cut a way in . |
| 22 | However , it is by no means certain that either of the established parties would agree to change since they would be bidding away long-term electoral advantage in return for a short-term in office in a coalition government in which they might have only limited power . |
| 23 | Can you with any of these characters , see stages at which they might have been rescued , and by what means . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , if we are ever to make new discoveries about intonation , it will be as a result of studying what people actually say rather than inventing examples of what they might say . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In general , from 1450 onwards , non-European Christians were taught theology to a level at which they might function as parish priests , but they were not admitted to the religious orders such as the Jesuits and the Dominicans . |
| 27 | Before I come to discuss the philosophical problems that are raised by this sort of account of self and autonomy , I want to look at what I have called its implicit politics ; and what I mean by this primarily is its possible consequences for the way in which women might think about their relationships to each other , and the way in which they might think about themselves . |
| 28 | It also seems that it might be helpful if teachers were aware of those among their pupils with particularly unsupportive home lives , that is , with few sources outside school from which they might derive a sense of their own value . |
| 29 | As a basis for this calculation it is perhaps appropriate to assume that a single sprinkler system should be capable of dealing with three fires simultaneously involving the operation of all sprinkler heads in any vertically-related sections in which they might occur . |
| 30 | Talk couched in women 's language lacks authority , thus unfitting those who use the language for any position in which they might exercise authority . |