Example sentences of "that it might [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 More remarkable still , in 1907 Pius X instructed Catholics to give assent not only to what the Biblical Commission had already decided , but to all decisions that it might make in the future .
2 " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . "
3 Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per .
4 Now Potts J. has illuminated the way for the definitive judgment of Phillips J. As they have shown , the plaintiffs claim that each was injured when at birth he or she became a legal person damaged by the prior act of the respective defendants , and that when each such act was done it was reasonably foreseeable that it might result in the plaintiff being born damaged .
5 Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich .
6 It was an impressive sight , and one that frightened me a little at first , just because it was such a huge change and I was worried that it might happen to the island sometime .
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