Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] which [pron] might [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fears were expressed by some of those present that the Government emphasis — and funding — would be concentrated on practical research for which there might be some profitable return rather than on basic research which carried less obvious spin-offs . |
| 2 | This leads naturally to a review of the nature and potential of collective actors and the field of action in which they might be engaged . |
| 3 | A more important reason not to experiment is to avoid the possibility of getting the glider into an untested mode of spin from which it might be difficult or impossible to recover . |
| 4 | The official resolution said in reply that the gracefulness of his welcome was only increased because he ‘ did not belong to any of the Free Churches … and did not belong to any section of those political parties to which they might be supposed to belong ’ . |
| 5 | In the past , choice was more important , and then national groups were much like many other groups of which one might be a member . |
| 6 | Whereas water and electricity were broken up into different private companies between which there might be a degree of competition , British Telecom ( BT ) and British Gas were essentially privatized intact . |
| 7 | We may define ‘ egoism ’ as the principle of acting only for the goals to which one inclines from one 's own viewpoint , and suggest two directions from which it might be approached . |
| 8 | Even so , this is still largely an unmapped terrain , and the research strategy adopted here is one which aims to clarify some of the issues involved in inter-agency work and to identify areas of work in which it might be usefully advanced together with the limits and obstacles to its development . |
| 9 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 10 | That is not an unreasonable thing to do when one considers the circumstances in which they might be living . |
| 11 | By showing in what circumstances a firm 's value would not be affected , Messrs Modigliani and Miller provided clues for the circumstances in which it might be . |
| 12 | The legality of the threat of use of a weapon therefore depends on an evaluation both of the characteristics of the weapon and of the possible circumstances in which it might be used . |
| 13 | Can one imagine any circumstances in which it might be possible to launch the Continent-wide equivalent of a Buy British campaign ? |
| 14 | The fact that the amount due to them was disputed meant that it was uncertain whether they had reached the point beyond which they might be considered trespassers by dealing with B and L's goods . |
| 15 | In his reply St. Johnston said that the Chief Inspector of Constabulary at the Home Office , whom he had consulted , did not think he should accept the invitation to join the working party , but that there would be no objection to his attending any meeting to which he might be invited . |
| 16 | The victims would resist more if they knew the limits of ill-treatment to which they might be subjected . |
| 17 | She moved in a way that seemed to emphasize the body beneath the clothes , to hint at the purposes to which it might be put . |
| 18 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 19 | Advise Arthur , Bert and Charlie as to any rights of action they might have in tort against Chartist plc and as to any defences with which they might be met . |
| 20 | Perhaps what is most important is that the nature of such identifiable UFO categories , and the conditions under which they might be observed , are predictable , after careful analysis of the data . |
| 21 | The model takes such actions for granted because its reduction of macro to micro has bracketed out the conditions under which it might be put in question . |
| 22 | ‘ What was needed was a new look at the problems and the ways in which they might be solved , both in the UK and elsewhere . |
| 23 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 24 | By the end of the war the Colonial Office was accustomed to thinking synoptically about Africa , to weighing with unaccustomed confidence and delusive clarity the large forces at work there and the ways in which they might be accommodated within a system of administration . |
| 25 | Our notions of who constitutes the academic community , the freedoms at stake , and the ways in which they might be protected , all develop over time . |
| 26 | Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ . |
| 27 | However , the association between homosexuality and femininity is not necessarily insulting to either ; on the contrary , as Kaja Silverman shows , there are ways in which it might be just the reverse , especially when we contest the stereotypes of both . |
| 28 | Although only tentative conclusions can be drawn from such a small sample , the content of the completed schedules does demonstrate the type of information that they are capable of engendering , and the ways in which it might be used . |
| 29 | This research aims to explore the nature of this impairment and examine ways in which it might be overcome . |
| 30 | Pressures and activities of this kind were a facet of the increasingly active discussion of problems of international peace , and the ways in which it might be preserved , which were preoccupying many radicals and idealists in western Europe during the last decades before the war . |