Example sentences of "[that] might [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a Soiree in the spring of 1887 and again in 1888 at which " only a few psalms were to be sung , thereby keeping clear of any danger that might creep into our churches by hymns or any other kind of pieces of music . " |
| 2 | There was a Soiree in the spring of 1887 and again in 1888 at which " only a few psalms were to be sung , thereby keeping clear of any danger that might creep into our churches by hymns or any other kind of pieces of music . " |
| 3 | But unknown to most of his colleagues he was busily collecting information that might bear on the question of how a species might change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 4 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 5 | One of the main aims of our experiments was to try and detect candidate repressor proteins that might function through direct interaction with CREB . |
| 6 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 7 | Talk was of a minor disciplinary measure by management that might lead to industrial action . |
| 8 | To acknowledge any such standard would be , in effect , to accept a principle that might lead to a lesser religious or other liberty , if not to a loss of freedom altogether to advance many of one 's spiritual ends . |
| 9 | Any organisms that might lead to increased release of carbon dioxide , or methane , are clearly not to be welcomed in a world that is currently experiencing warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect . |
| 10 | In the aftermath of the Police Strike , senior officers were doubly concerned to prevent the kind of rank-and-file interaction that might lead to common cause against their superiors . |
| 11 | Newtown , Pennsylvania-based graphics chip maker Tseng Labs Inc says it is in discussions that might lead to it entering the business of development and production of audio chips : ‘ We 're talking to a lot of people in the sound area , both engineers and companies — because we do n't have any basic sound technology , we 're looking to acquire that either through people or maybe an acquisition , ’ Tseng vice-chairman Jack Gibbons explained to Reuter . |
| 12 | Activities that might lead to the objective of promotion to head of a department might be , ‘ enrol on a management course ’ , ‘ achieve at least four research publications within the next two years ’ , ‘ join two committees and get involved with service planning ’ . |
| 13 | Increased versatility of learning would confer great selective advantage and is just the kind of change that might lead to the very rapid evolution of neocortex , so we can add this to global connectivity and greater genetic control as possible causes of the neopallial explosion . |
| 14 | What is more , we can not even see the processes going on today that might lead to such extinctions . |
| 15 | Perhaps , for instance , a case could be made for discouraging risks that might lead to a person 's loss of employment , if their chances of gaining another job were remote . |
| 16 | This study will examine such problems , as and when they arise — and will do so through an ethnographic grasp of cultural differences and misunderstandings on topics that might range from the price of butter to question of minorities , language , drugs and terror . |
| 17 | One obstacle that might stand in the way of the proposed merger is a personality clash between the strong-willed bosses of the two firms . |
| 18 | political legitimacy — the right of a political community to treat its members as having obligations in virtue of collective community decisions — is to be found not in the hard terrain of contracts or duties of justice or obligations of fair play that might hold among strangers , where philosophers have hoped to find it , but in the more fertile ground of fraternity , community , and their attendant obligations . |
| 19 | As far as council support goes , we 've been granted the use of both the station centre itself , so that we can have a retail outlet for furniture , bric-a-brac , books , the kind of thing that might go to landfill , but which people might very well want to use . |
| 20 | Is the implication of what you 've just said to the Chairman that you agree with Mr Allenby that this animal is a different one than anything that might go to an I five site ? |
| 21 | To see this , look at the payoff matrix and imagine the thoughts that might go through my head as I play against you . |
| 22 | It again resorted to the previously tried formula of a counter-proposal that might serve as a compromise . |
| 23 | The other inhibition is more pragmatic : fear of unlimited losses on short positions that might result from a sudden market rally . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , provided that it is possible to make informed assumptions about the likely shapes and sizes of buildings at particular periods , a computer can be programmed to search for particular configurations of post-holes that might result from such a structure and ‘ peel them off ’ , to reveal a simplified picture of earlier building phases . |
| 25 | ‘ For to obviate the inconveniencies that might result from the too frequent communication with the out pupils the Professor will demonstrate to the latter only what might be useful to them as Surgeons and Physicians to the human body , such as the most important demonstrations of comparative anatomy as likewise experiences [ experiments ] on several animals , which could not be attempted on Man without imminent danger , and lastly , a comparison between epidemical and epizootic diseases — therefore the out pupils ought to be considered by the Society [ College ] as a separate Class : the consideration of which ought not to have any influence as to the situation of the establishments . |
| 26 | Admittedly the Supplement devotes space to provision for cycling and it repeats DB32 ‘ s general advice to have regard for the special road and footpath layout requirements that might result from the consideration of bus routes and stops . |
| 27 | But , according to Haksar , what has also to be taken into consideration is the risk of violence that might result from not allowing people to express their feeling and here civil disobedience might be regarded as a safety valve . |
| 28 | This analysis was performed in the control groups to avoid the potential bias that might result from lifestyle changes ( particularly treatment ) occurring after myocardial infarction . |
| 29 | Such official intervention may in theory reduce the degree of exchange rate volatility , and so partially reduce the uncertainty in world trade that might result from a free float . |
| 30 | Even without the element of uncertainty , however , potential plaintiffs may be reluctant to inflict on the company the disruption that an action against a director can involve , or expose it to the unfavourable publicity that might result from airing its difficulties in public . |