Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] might [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nominal demand for money is a stable function of a list of variables which might include the following : ( a ) Total wealth ( W ) . |
| 2 | The costs for the US would be enormous , indeed the requirement of the French was that the US would pay the entire cost , but money and munitions could be regarded as the essential calipers which might allow the rickety infant to walk ; and as long as it had an American account it would grow up and would be able to buy everything that was needed for a new nation state . |
| 3 | The overlapping of political and organizational structures that creates a situation in which communist bureaucracies are strongly opposed to all organizational improvements which might endanger the existing balance of power . |
| 4 | Leitzig explained that it was actually there to blot out any outside noises which might distract the skilled operators from their delicate and sensitive work . |
| 5 | If there was any ambiguity , that is to say implications which might escape the first or indeed many subsequent readings , they were not the ones which would have made themselves more readily apparent if some form of graphic representation had preserved the tone of voice , the facial expressions or the hand movements of their author . |
| 6 | As for movies which might use the old gothic mechanisms to haunt the imagination in more complex ways , to plunge you into the real nightmare of history , in the politically and morally conservative world of modern Hollywood it looks like they do n't stand a ghost of a chance |
| 7 | Having admired the kingly tomb and added the name ‘ O'Connor ’ to my list of families who might accept the Irish throne , I wandered off to the Abbey Hotel . |
| 8 | Under these conditions he might say the following : ‘ If I can satisfy you that the fuel consumption of this car is no greater than that of the Vauxhall Cavalier , would you buy it ? ’ |
| 9 | In the same product lines where foreign investors generally specialize , national firms do not necessarily behave differently and in some cases they might promote the direct use of less labor . |
| 10 | To examine the factors which might explain the higher mortality from sudden infant death syndrome in Maori infants ( 7.4/1000 live births in 1986 compared with 3.6 in non-Maori children ) . |
| 11 | These are some factors to be taken into account ; clearly , further work is needed to identify other risk factors which might alert the general practitioner to the possibility of an attempt . |
| 12 | ‘ During the last few weeks , we have , therefore , been talking to the board of the Bank of Edinburgh about a number of options which might reduce the protracted time-scales that affected the proposal . |
| 13 | If a takeover does become the subject of civil litigation or criminal proceedings , the Panel will normally suspend publication of any of its own findings which might influence the legal proceedings . |
| 14 | I think we should therefore hold the fight until a clear pattern emerges and certainly avoid international incidents which might tempt the Red Army , either at Union level or in the Republics and finally I think perhaps one useful thing we could do is too assist initially , and I stress initially , well disposed Republics with bread and sausages . |
| 15 | 3 In addition to providing for strong and responsible government it has been claimed that the system provides for moderate government because the two parties in a two-party system must strive to occupy the middle ground where the votes lie thickest and this obliges them to control their extremists who might dissuade the middling voters from giving their support . |
| 16 | This does not perhaps leave the section totally without point , in that by directing the board to consider the employees it might expand the cognitive basis of decision making and so might on occasion lead to a superior accommodation of employee interests within the traditional framework of shareholder supremacy . |