Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] which might " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice has been for the judge to deduct a period for remission which might be earned , and to advise the Home Secretary that what remains is the requirement of retribution and deterrence . |
| 2 | Further to the entry in the January Notes Hilary Weedon is still appealing for clubs which might be spared for a youth club . |
| 3 | Other coins made from the same different die can often be found , thus establishing a chain of die links between objects which might otherwise display no close similarities . |
| 4 | ideas for matters which might be included in an announcement to employees ; and |
| 5 | He began by saying that seven years earlier Meehan had been found guilty by a jury ‘ on evidence which was amply justified ’ , and then went on : ‘ Some public support was whipped up over the years for reasons which were not entirely clear and for motives which might be imagined . ’ |
| 6 | All six had conquered hardships of their own to help those in need and Celebrities Guild founder Ella Glazer said : ‘ They 're all remarkable people and it 's a pleasure for us to reward them for work which might otherwise go unmarked . ’ |
| 7 | ( b ) any claim arising out of circumstances notified to the insurer during the period of insurance as circumstances which might give rise to a claim . |
| 8 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 9 | The analysis of these data should be complete by early 1985 and will be followed by a further survey of key informants and the various development agencies in an attempt to identify the type of projects which might be promoted within the framework of an Integrated Rural Development programme . |
| 10 | And Melanie 's laughter trickled to nothing when she saw his pale , bony face half-hidden by hair and could see nothing there , no hint of a smile or inflection of tenderness which might mean she would be spared . |
| 11 | He did n't want to drag them , because even though it would give him more room there would be a risk of noise which might attract the attention of the housekeeper . |
| 12 | Sweeney and Jones and Pratt have made attempts to produce some basic definitions of level which might be helpful to librarians and users . |
| 13 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 14 | Emissions are measured on an open area test site which is free of objects which might reflect emitted signals . |
| 15 | It could , indeed , help to establish the kind of ethos which might make recourse to legal remedies unnecessary . |
| 16 | The many levels and manifestations of town twinning , as developed by the twinning committee , have much in common with the variety and range of activities which might be shared between a college or school and a company , as developed by the partnership committee . |
| 17 | A standard format is to be introduced which will have to include the following : a detailed programme of activities which might enable the offender to make reparation through community service or a supervision programme tackling the offender 's problems ; a description of the restrictions on liberty which the programme would involve ; relevant information about the offence and the offender , including the latter 's attitude towards it ; and an assessment of the offender 's ability and willingness to tackle his or her offending behaviour . |
| 18 | In the absence of controls over referrals by non-budget holding GPs , the provision that under such contracts ‘ payment would be on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment by either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with ’ , would appear very similar to a prospective payment system . |
| 19 | The White Paper working paper on funding and contracts for hospital services envisages three broad classes of contract ; block contracts , under which the GP or DHA would pay the hospital an annual fee in return for access to a defined range of services ; cost and volume contracts , under which hospitals would receive a sum in respect of a baseline level of activity , defined in terms of a given number of treatments or cases , and cost per case contracts , where payment would be made to the hospital on a case by case basis , without any prior commitment of either party to the volume of cases which might be so dealt with . |
| 20 | Quite a few courses have resulted in the formation ( not always by the library admittedly ) of groups which might generically be termed as ‘ Friends of the library ’ which may become formalized and then act as ‘ lobbyists ’ for the public library in that area . |
| 21 | For many years , this duty was thought to require the appointed members of the authority to approve personally the transmission of programmes which might contravene the duties set out in s4 . |
| 22 | Owen was going through the accounts with Nikos trying to find pockets of money which might still be emptied . |
| 23 | Is this a struggle inside Frodo 's soul , between his conscious will and his unconscious wickedness ( the sort of wickedness which might earlier have made him reluctant to hand over the Ring to Gandalf ) ? |
| 24 | The University has completed its own survey ( through consultants ) of the backlog of repair and maintenance of university buildings , and has reviewed the level of funding which might reasonably be put towards the backlog in addition to its customary allocation for repairs and maintenance . |
| 25 | Difficult as it is to summarize so majestic a body of work as that produced by Hailey in the days when he reigned supreme as the Colonial Office 's oracle on Africa , it seems fair to say that the main impression to be derived from it is of his anxiety to avoid committing the British government to any course of action which might prove to be irreversible . |
| 26 | They should consider alternative courses of action which might remove the cause of the request , e.g : |
| 27 | There are certain supplementary sources of revenue which might help to offset some of the costs . |
| 28 | Examples of animals which might be chosen are pigs , horses , cows , cats , dogs , ducks and sheep . |
| 29 | Detecting water movements helps many insects of fast-flowing streams to maintain their position , and it alerts aquatic leeches to the approach of animals which might provide a meal of blood . |
| 30 | This means not only avoiding the use of words which might amount to a resignation on your part , but also checking whether words that apparently mean that your job has ended were actually intended to have that effect . |