Example sentences of "that might [vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ehm what facilities would you actually give er on a broad spectrum so these companies that might want to fund the playhouse apart from the normal free tickets ?
2 The following section of this chapter attempts to simplify these issues by explaining the goals listed earlier , by showing the sorts of themes that might emerge to indicate the strength of a goal and by illustrating the sorts of jobs which satisfy certain goals .
3 A short fence prevented the escape of animals that might attempt to swim the river .
4 It is appropriate to add a few words at this point that might help avert the possibility of becoming involved in any extensive debate about whether associative changes of the sort described here should really be thought of as instances of perceptual learning , producing changes in the perceived similarity of the stimuli .
5 From both departments he received information that might help free the Stone family from harassment .
6 The establishment has taken over and the more wrong it has proved , the more it has stifled the dissent that might have saved the economy .
7 Romantic poets were keen to vindicate Chatterton , and to cherish his untimely death as that of a sacrificial victim : here was a spilling of young blood that might have watered the purlieus of a church .
8 Johnson comments , ‘ To make this way , the rock has been hewn to a level with labour that might have broken the perseverance of a Roman legion . ’
9 The only budget announcement that might have influenced the mid-Staffordshire result was the doubling of the savings limit for those entitled to claim poll-tax relief .
10 So far , no one has found a possible candidate for the supernova that might have represented the Star of Bethlehem .
11 Yet it even made a suggestion to CSM that might have made a dent in its sales graph .
12 She was a very tall and very fair and dazzlingly beautiful creature whose skin was goose-pimpled under the impact of McIllvanney 's air conditioning which was set to a level that might have made a penguin shiver .
13 Ilya Ehrenburg knew Modi better than most ; he said , ‘ Of course he could have painted portraits that might have pleased the critics and buyers …
14 There was no sign of any sort of weapon , either a firearm related to the cartridges , or the kind of heavy instrument that might have caused the injury from which the man had apparently died .
15 It was a wind that might have swept the fields of mortality for a thousand centuries .
16 The public schools , the Stock Exchange , and the so-called democracy of parliamentary procedure became objects of his attack in a manner that might have warmed the heart of a good Communist .
17 In Hanover , Sewell was introduced to Professor Havemann , whose plans to visit England in 1777 and in 1796 unfortunately came to nothing ( the missing link , possibly , in a chain that might have set the Hanover veterinary school , founded in 1788 , rather than Lyons or Alfort as an immediate model for the London Veterinary College ) .
18 It is a perspective that Freeman in his criticism of Mead totally failed to appreciate , and one that might have reduced the savagery of his attack .
19 Every surface that might have had a fingerprint was wiped , every trace they could think of expunged .
20 The visitors bounced back with Mitchell heading wide at the far post and Cormac O'Donnell bursting into the box where Mark Donnelly 's tackle ended the danger in circumstances that might have brought a spot kick .
21 But yes , I grant you that might have seemed a bit odd to the members if it had n't been explained properly . ’
22 Leaders of the ‘ armed counter-revolution ’ , as Ms Magas calls it , rejected all compromises that might have preserved the outlines of Yugoslavia while giving something to the non-Serbs .
23 Aid , therefore , in a sense , appeared to be a substitute for analysis : certainly for the sort of analysis that might have suggested the hazards attending US policy objectives in Vietnam .
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