Example sentences of "[art] [noun] which [pers pn] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It emphasised that there were men , in both France and England , who understood the role of the sea in war and of the part which it might play in determining the outcome of future English expeditions to France . |
| 2 | Mill wanted to protect children against the harm which they might do themselves . |
| 3 | Each of them might have engaged a separate average adjuster to advise him : had these not agreed , a dispute could have arisen between the parties which they might have submitted to arbitrationa somewhat unusual course in business of this kind . |
| 4 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 5 | The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages . |
| 6 | It does not require that the woman be able to appreciate the significance of sexual intercourse or the implications which it might have for her . |
| 7 | Groups of college staff led by experienced chairmen considered a series of case studies designed to highlight the problems which they might encounter when preparing their own course submissions . |
| 8 | The battle bus was not the great nerve centre of the nation which it might have appeared . |
| 9 | One of my biggest motives for thinking about being ‘ official ’ is for the perks which we might benifit from . |
| 10 | References to the ‘ incomers ’ are phrased in terms of the benefits which they might bring . |
| 11 | The term " donor " , for example , is specific to a genre which we might call " writing about narrative in a tradition following Vladimir Propp " ; and the term " the Imaginary " is specific to the genre " recent psychoanalytically-influenced criticism " . |
| 12 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 13 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 14 | So again , it 's a thing which you might consider when you 're er letting vehicles come in front and er I the rights and wrongs of erm flashing lights , er really the only flashing lights should take the place of a horn . |
| 15 | The commendable objectives were ( i ) to present private investors with a document which they might find more helpful to them than the full statutory accounts , ( ii ) to reduce an appalling waste of paper , since undoubtedly a great many such investors consign the glossy brochures containing the accounts ( ii ) to their waste-paper baskets after only the most cursory of glances ( if any ) and , perhaps , ( iii ) to reduce the company 's postage — though it is unlikely that any saving on that could be commensurate with the cost of preparing an additional document and , in effect , having it audited . |
| 16 | We can do this by considering the reply Locke makes , in an early draft of the Essay , to an objection which he might seem to invite . |