Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was suggested that the plaster should stay on for between four and six weeks after which he might like to think of building up its strength . |
| 2 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 3 | I had written a particularly tear-jerking script for 1OAB 's ‘ last hour ’ for which we might well have played ‘ Hearts and Flowers ’ as an obbligato . |
| 4 | While this spared the Bush Administration from the perils of thinking for itself , or heaven forbid , taking a policy decision for which it might get criticised , it naively ignored the danger that Bonn might have a large axe of its own to grind . |
| 5 | You can then apply a similar method to the second major piece of preparation before applying for a job : matching yourself to the job for which you might apply . |
| 6 | It 's also worth applying for other jobs that appeal and for which you might have a chance . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) An important printed heading for a wide topic ( one for which you might draw a pattern diagram ) can be ringed , or outlined by a rectangle of red lines . |
| 8 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 9 | But these identities are no longer lurid alibis towards which he might credibly escape ; they are playthings , alternative lives issued under licence by the celebrated author . |
| 10 | There is nothing essentially new in thus narrowing the scope of will ; most of mankind throughout most of its history seems to have taken it for granted that they were moved by forces from beyond them and mysterious to them , which might lift them above or drag them below the capacities of which they might presume to be in command ( in Christian theology , the unpredictable visitations of divine grace assisting a will otherwise impotent to resist the Devil ) , and in the present century , ever since Freud demonstrated that the same conception of man could be translated from a religious into a psychological language , we have found ourselves thinking our way back to it . |
| 11 | Nor does he consider that animal behaviour might provide us with prototypes of human understanding on the basis of which we might consider something akin to different language-games , reflecting both the similarities and the differences implicit in the respective cases . |
| 12 | And it has solved the problem of accommodating Bach 's tessitura , which often extends beyond the capabilities of violin and viola , in an ingenious manner of which we might easily imagine Bach himself to have approved . |
| 13 | There are many other products and services available from your bank , some of which you might never need , but some of which you probably will . |
| 14 | Finally , there is the Governing Board of the College , of which you might be one of the student representatives . |
| 15 | I am trying to set up a seminar on Ethics in Communications ( which may also touch on more general issues of ethics and management ) — do you have any relevant texts of which you might send me a complimentary copy and to which reference could be made in the publicity for what should prove a stimulating event ! |
| 16 | Jamie is propped up in a neatly made bed on which lie two discarded magazines of which he might have read the covers . |
| 17 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 18 | She held the bag between them , suddenly not daring to put it down in case it signalled something , the consequences of which she might regret . |
| 19 | He followed the principles set out in the Gillian case and concluded that a local authority had a ‘ governing reputation ’ capable of being damaged by libellous statements in respect of which it might sue for injury to reputation without the need to prove damage to its property . |
| 20 | One was a range of curious vases shaped like birds and animals , amongst which we might include the Myrtos Goddess vase . |
| 21 | The shuttle had no on-board weaponry : not a single missile , not even a laser with which they might have tried to cut a way in . |
| 22 | To study this problem , the investigators have first to develop small models for a small number of key countries , and then to simulate different strategies with which they might or might not manage to cooperate . |
| 23 | Advise Arthur , Bert and Charlie as to any rights of action they might have in tort against Chartist plc and as to any defences with which they might be met . |
| 24 | Their expertise lies in enabling others and others to take advantage of arts facilities and helping them erm or working with them to produce the things that happen , for example all the erm posters which were up during last years festival erm were produced in conjunction with community arts which erm has erm er produced on Ditchfern Place , erm and earlier this morning I was thinking that up as I think other councillors did , that more serious of projects which community arts are now entering into er in Chesterton in particularly in the children erm I think councillors went to Dickfield women 's photograph project and it is things like that about giving people confidence to join arts in a way erm with which they might never otherwise have experienced and the community arts have taken just that . |
| 25 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 26 | ( 3 ) The Act of 1976 expressly recognised the possibility that under the pre-existing law ‘ a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ’ see section 4(5) . |
| 27 | ‘ This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; … |
| 28 | Washington also contended that the grant of long-term credits to communist states in general was robbing the West of useful weapons with which it might hope to influence the conduct of both the USSR and China . |
| 29 | However , although he says this , partly to emphasise that the truth of the matter is quite independent of the question whether we know it , it would seem reasonable to expect that , if there is a real truth here into which we might have rational insight , careful attention to just what is at issue will bring about convergence . |
| 30 | The Broad Church leaders , who hoped that the Church of England would again become a national Church , with which the Nonconformists could be closely associated or into which they might even be absorbed , were as enthusiastic about Bunyan as the Evangelicals . |