Example sentences of "[noun] in which [pers pn] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 7 June an emergency meeting of the NSFU Executive was held at which Father Charles Hopkins , standing in for the absent Havelock Wilson , pointed out the disastrous financial effects which participation in such a stoppage might have on the union and the peril in which it might stand in respect of its hard won provincial settlements . |
| 2 | This leads naturally to a review of the nature and potential of collective actors and the field of action in which they might be engaged . |
| 3 | These will enable you to assess for yourself what your strengths and weaknesses are , as well as the areas in which you might like to consider working in the future . |
| 4 | In the case of hearing and touch this is clear ; strictly speaking , what we hear is not a coach in which we might travel , but rather its noise . |
| 5 | But Budworth was an honest man , and , as such , felt a compunction for the errors in which he might have unthinkingly involved the innocent and unsuspecting female . |
| 6 | Maria turned clear eyes , golden-brown tonight , on Luke and said what needed to be said , eschewing preamble , cleverness and a host of other possible costumes in which she might have dressed it up . |
| 7 | Even so , this is still largely an unmapped terrain , and the research strategy adopted here is one which aims to clarify some of the issues involved in inter-agency work and to identify areas of work in which it might be usefully advanced together with the limits and obstacles to its development . |
| 8 | By contrast in Kufra people did acknowledge circumstances in which they might have to unite with their enemies ; in 1978 they did in fact do so . |
| 9 | I argued that there was a lack of clarity ( or clear research evidence ) concerning what these appropriate qualities might be , an unfortunate tendency to abstract approved-of skills from consideration of the contextual circumstances in which they might need to be employed , and an inclination to present a one-sided interpretation of the implications of specialist subject expertise for teaching quality . |
| 10 | That is not an unreasonable thing to do when one considers the circumstances in which they might be living . |
| 11 | By showing in what circumstances a firm 's value would not be affected , Messrs Modigliani and Miller provided clues for the circumstances in which it might be . |
| 12 | The legality of the threat of use of a weapon therefore depends on an evaluation both of the characteristics of the weapon and of the possible circumstances in which it might be used . |
| 13 | Can one imagine any circumstances in which it might be possible to launch the Continent-wide equivalent of a Buy British campaign ? |
| 14 | Respondents were therefore also asked : Are there any circumstances in which you might break a law to which you were very strongly opposed ? |
| 15 | To which I reply , ‘ All right , let's think of the circumstances in which you might wish to say ‘ I 'm happy ’ in the most general sense , without limitation to any implied purpose or situation … ’ |
| 16 | In 1341 England and France found both a cause and a theatre of war in which they might meddle further . |
| 17 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 18 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 19 | The aim of the bill was to curb the sale of firearms to convicted felons ( by allowing police seven days in which they might , but were not compelled to , check the criminal record or mental health of a potential purchaser ) , and to impose a " cooling-off " period for would-be purchasers . |
| 20 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 21 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 22 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 23 | That night over a pretentious dinner ( ‘ delicate strips of milk-fed veal on a bed of herbs and accompanied by a tangy aromatic sauce specially prepared by our chefs ’ ) in a pretentious modern hotel and fortified by a bottle of local plonk , my Producer John Reynolds and I resolved to telephone the Palace Chamberlain in the morning , say that owing to a technical fault the film was not usable , and did the king have a spare hour in which we might shoot the interview again ? |
| 24 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 25 | ‘ What was needed was a new look at the problems and the ways in which they might be solved , both in the UK and elsewhere . |
| 26 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 27 | By the end of the war the Colonial Office was accustomed to thinking synoptically about Africa , to weighing with unaccustomed confidence and delusive clarity the large forces at work there and the ways in which they might be accommodated within a system of administration . |
| 28 | There are a number of ways in which they might become interested in the subject . |
| 29 | Our notions of who constitutes the academic community , the freedoms at stake , and the ways in which they might be protected , all develop over time . |
| 30 | Mr Davies has now written to me in connection with his research on BCR , saying — ‘ if anyone would like to help I can certainly suggest ways in which they might do so . |