Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] might [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 All of which might make the future less bright for Sequent Computer Systems Inc , which currently provides the top-end 6000/75 and 85 multiprocessors for Unisys .
2 Where there is limited net asset cover , the vendors might be asked to warrant that they are not aware of any information relating to the target which has been knowingly withheld , the disclosure of which might effect the decision of the purchaser to proceed .
3 The uncertain boundaries of the duchy gave rise to numerous disputes , any one of which might flare up into a major conflict , as the war of Saint Sardos demonstrated .
4 However , there were other reasons such as ‘ lost documentation ’ and small balances written off , all of which comprised the annual figure , the disclosure of which might result in too much attention being given to his department .
5 Ltd. v. Hawkins ( 1859 ) 4 H. & N. 87 was authority for the proposition that it was an ordinary incident of all corporations ( including municipal corporations ) that they might sue for libel ; that case was only authority for the proposition that a trading company might sue for libel by which its property was injured ; ( 3 ) in holding that the Manchester Corporation case was decided per incuriam when there was no basis for so holding and he should have followed it ; ( 4 ) in holding that in bringing an action for libel not alleged to have caused actual damage , no valid distinction could be made between trading corporations and municipal corporations , which ignored the true basis on which a trading corporation was permitted to sue for libel , namely that it had a trading character , the defamation of which might ruin it : South Hetton Coal Co . Ltd. v. North-Eastern News Association Ltd. [ 1894 ] 1 Q.B. 133 , 145 .
6 All of which might prompt us to ask the question , what is the real connection between gender and sex ?
7 In his Directions for Taking up Plants and Shrubs and Conveying Them by Sea , John Fothergill suggested placing seeds among specimens in boxes , some of which might succeed if the plants failed .
8 In these circumstances tournaments were not confined within enclosed lists but ranged over several square miles of ground , taking in villages , woods and vineyards , all of which might suffer as much damage as in real war .
9 β-blockade might impair carbohydrate metabolism either as a consequence of direct β-adrenoreceptor blockade or as the result of relatively unopposed α activity , either of which might suppress insulin release .
10 Up to five stages in the life cycle could be identified , each of which might respond to a different agent .
11 Thus , when buying or selling barley , they take account of the supplies of such things as sugar , which can be used as substitutes for it in brewing , and again of all the various feeding stuffs , a scarcity of which might raise the value of barley for consumption on the farm .
12 Information concerning or identifying another pupil should not be disclosed , and information , the disclosure of which might cause serious harm to the mental or physical health or emotional condition of the pupil or anyone else , or which indicates that the pupil has or may be likely to suffer child abuse , should not be disclosed .
13 In drug addiction a sufferer may use a regular daily quantity of drug , a single dose of which might kill a non-addicted person .
14 Besides , there is no reason why the distribution of later preferences , any of which might become operative , would be the same on the 1,476 papers selected for transfer to Craig as it would be on all of the 3,813 papers including those not so selected .
15 In the abbey church of St Seurin at Bordeaux , for example , he could see Roland 's horn , the sound of which might have summoned reinforcements to Roncesvalles but which Roland , more careful of his reputation than of his life , had refused to blow until it was too late .
16 The cellars are full of junk , most of which might have been useful once but all of which is now covered in water or mud or fungus .
17 At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) .
18 Having settled one set of problems and delineated a pattern for higher education , had Robbins left the way open for a succession of what Eric Robinson called ‘ small cadet universities ’ — ; some of which were in fact very similar to the CATs , and others of which might see no future except in aspiring to enter the university sector ?
19 This certainty was that the Spice Islands , the Moluccas , lay at the farthest side of the Mar del Sur , or of whatever might lie beyond the waters that Balboa saw .
20 It is worth spending a moment considering what might seem a very technical matter , but it is one with important practical implications .
21 The transfer ratios differ in different applications of what might appear to be the same thing : V8 Ninety — 1.222:1 ; V8 One Ten — 1.410:1 and V8 Range Rover — 1.192:1 .
22 This aspect of the story has shocking implications as a representative of what might appear to be the random and unjust way by which salvation may be achieved — although St Peter always wins .
23 In men undergoing elective inguinal hernia repair a very detailed account of what might go wrong does not increase patient anxiety significantly and has the advantage of allowing patients a fully informed choice before they consent to surgery , thus reducing the potential for subsequent litigation .
24 Of course H is intended only as an easy illustration of what might go wrong — and go wrong it does in some of the important generalisations of Z that arise in Section 3.6 .
25 Tow days after this , I was going pot-holing and the problems of what might go wrong came up .
26 First , the conception of what might pass under the heading of ‘ learning ’ falls short of the possible process of intellectual development .
27 Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them .
28 He stared up at the starlit sky and shivered , not only from the biting cold but his own sombre fear of what might await him .
29 There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ .
30 The term is certainly helpful , conveying something of the psychological unsettling that can occur , but it does not capture the full extent of what might take place .
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