Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [Wh det] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The advantages of such a mechanism are clear , it is possible to manipulate the model and thus understand the outside world in the sense of predicting what will happen without the potential costs of attempting to manipulate the real world and allowing things to happen , some of which might be considered to be unfortunate . |
| 3 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 4 | If being monitored for exposure to external penetrating radiation can be a marker of other exposures in the workplace , some of which might be hazardous , studies of the relation between men 's exposure to external radiation and leukaemia in their children could yield apparently inconsistent results . |
| 5 | They also provide three-dimensional environments of enormous physical complexity , and hence contain numerous different niches , each of which might be exploited in many different ways , and in many different permutations . |
| 6 | Up to five stages in the life cycle could be identified , each of which might respond to a different agent . |
| 7 | An activity could be analysed into quite short sections , each of which might be described ( using traditional language ) as a ‘ lesson ’ , or for the learner , ‘ task ’ . |
| 8 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 9 | This leaves around 1400km of post-collision convergence to be accounted for , much of which might be explained by a doubling of the thickness of the Tibetan crust during the past 50 Ma from a ‘ normal ’ value of 35 km to the present 70 km . |
| 10 | this prompted me to speculate not so much on what might be deployed in order to ask different questions from those addressed in the previous galleries . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It does n't matter whether a sign causes what it signifies , or is caused by it , or whether both are caused by something else ( like thunder and lightning , either of which might be a sign of the other and both of which are caused by an electrical discharge ) . |
| 13 | All of which might prompt us to ask the question , what is the real connection between gender and sex ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | The more powerful , well-established organizations were often able to put forward their own projects — many of which might simply have been cancelled because of capital cut-backs after the International Monetary Fund imposed constraints in 1976 . |
| 18 | The second most characteristic external feature of many barns is the pitching hole , a window-like opening , covered by a wooden shutter , several of which might be provided in the side and end walls in order to pitch corn or hay into the barn from a cart standing outside . |
| 19 | There are several waterfalls , any of which might be the site of their discovery . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The North Leigh pavement ( pl.34 ) and the Oceanus pavement , from Verulamium ( pl.26 ) have , respectively , an arrangement of decorative borders , and a central square with fine figured work , both of which might be indicative of the craft of some of the mosaicists employed above . |
| 22 | 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 . |