Example sentences of "[noun] [that] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , ‘ selective rationalization ’ was sufficiently widespread for Townsend and Peck ( 1985c ) and Watts and Stafford ( 1986 , 216 ) to draw up typologies of plants ' locational and other characteristics that might affect the probabilities of closure . |
| 2 | Pearson uses the concept of uncertainty to offer a matrix which directs attention to characteristics that might reduce the risks of innovation . |
| 3 | The argument also ignores the type of considerations that might determine the present non-use of these sophisticated weapons , such as the fear of complete destruction and total annihilation , rather than a greater degree of ahi sā , or love and concern for others . |
| 4 | For the supporters that might signal the end . |
| 5 | As I have already observed , feminists are concerned both to draw out the implications of sexist language and to consider changes in linguistic practice that might mitigate the effects of this particular form of sexism . |
| 6 | Multiple regression analysis computer programs can be used to introduce other independent variables that might increase the statistical reliability of the regression equation ( increasing the value of Rs towards 1.0 ) — in our example , perhaps , the cost of cars , the cost of petrol , the total length of roadway in the country , and so on . |
| 7 | Now add a filter starter solution as the chlorine that might kill the filter bacteria is gone — there are several on the market . |
| 8 | There is little detailed exploration of the contradictions , and none of the ambivalences that might characterize the racism of their subjects ( for contrasting discussions see Cohen , 1988,1991 ) . |
| 9 | There were also major political reasons that might affect the making and breaking of alliances . |
| 10 | She took the men 's cheers as somehow directed at herself , at her person , not at the food alone , but unlike the chorus that might greet the appearance of some women of the town , they did not place her in danger , and she allowed herself a small smile in acknowledgement , and came forward to set the dish down . |
| 11 | When the product or service being exchanged is complex ( as is the case with health care ) , it is either impossible or extremely costly to specify in advance in a written contract every contingency that might affect the transaction . |
| 12 | The more we look at the behaviour of insects , birds , mammals , and man , the more we see a continuum of complexity rather than any difference in kind that might separate the intellectual Valhalla of our species from the apparently mindless computations of insects . |
| 13 | This study will continue the analysis of data on aspects of Unit infants ' experience that might explain the developmental strengths and weaknesses demonstrated in the main study . |
| 14 | But on the long , split bench of the chapel , the floppy red book of hymns in my hands , I used to imagine every possible circumstance that might deflect the loving attention of the angel . |
| 15 | The ISE has three tiers , the main market ( Official List ) of over 2000 domestic companies with a market value of approximately £500 billion ; the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) established in 1980 to allow smaller companies that might find the costs of full listing prohibitive the chance to raise capital , with over 450 companies valued at around £9 billion ; and around seventy companies on the Third market with capitalisation of £O.6 billion . |
| 16 | Anglian Water Authority refused to attend the meeting of residents in Oakham because of rules preventing them discussing matters that might depress the share price during privatisation , and because there was little information available . |
| 17 | It is this expanded war that might complete the process of American decline . |
| 18 | He urged them to back the Brady plan , pointing to the socio-political unrest that might follow the failure to provide economic support for strategically important developing countries . |
| 19 | Erm , would there be anything else on your tapes that might give the game away ? |
| 20 | Armed with this hypothesis , they set out to find a convenient way of reducing carbon monoxide that might avoid the expensive catalysts and energy intensive conditions of Fischer-Tropsch chemistry — an industrial process that converts carbon monoxide and hydrogen synthesis gas to mixtures of organic compounds . |
| 21 | There i , there are a number of things that might affect the way in which we speak and how we use language in every day conversation , such as where we live , where we went to school , what |
| 22 | It was full of paper , ice-cream tubs and things that might excite the curiosity of any creature . |
| 23 | There are certain general observations that might favour the predator argument . |
| 24 | A flow chart , compared with a calendar , will also tell you if your event clashes with a race meeting in the area on that day or another big event that might clog the roads , take the public attention and jeopardise the success of yours . |
| 25 | Bearing these caveats in mind , however , we may speculate from the evidence of this study on the changes that might improve the glycaemic control in patients with diabetes . |
| 26 | The committee 's report will be taken into consideration in the preparation of a White Paper , dealing with the pit closures and any other changes that might affect the energy market . |
| 27 | Love Hearts might be a cynical attempt to rip off the drug-obsessed rave scene , but there must be a host of other legal substances that might do the trick . |
| 28 | Neighbouring countries closed their borders , both to travellers and to goods that might carry the infection — particularly fish , Peru 's speciality . |
| 29 | But , when there is a development that might improve the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms — and one , moreover , on which unions and employers are agreed — ministers suddenly recognise that schools are overloaded . |
| 30 | Throughout his book , Anger patiently exhumes the sordid remains of dead film stars , robbing their graves for any evidence that might undermine the official stories that the Hollywood studio system revealed to an adoring public . |