Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] might [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Any Inland Revenue concessions or practice statements relied on should be identified and care taken to be aware of any changes in the law or practice which might affect the buy-out .
2 They should consider alternative courses of action which might remove the cause of the request , e.g :
3 At the very least , a manufacturer should be constantly watching for such developments in the industry which might shift the threshold of the expectation of safety .
4 This move hindered subsequent investigation into Bloody Sunday and nullified further criticism of the Army — largely because the government 's Press Office appealed for the suspension of any media coverage which might prejudice the Tribunal 's findings .
5 He did n't want to drag them , because even though it would give him more room there would be a risk of noise which might attract the attention of the housekeeper .
6 The research assesses the impact of European law which might constrain the national policy makers but might also provide industry with a means of challenging national policies which contravene European law .
7 As for the game itself , Hare has a philosophy which might make the rest of us win .
8 As for the game itself , Hare has a philosophy which might make the rest of us win .
9 The OPEC president , Sadek Boussena of Algeria , resisted the idea of a formal conference which might split the organization , but held talks in Vienna from Aug. 27 , involving those ministers who might decide to attend ( in the event , all except those of Iraq and Libya ) .
10 The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line .
11 Anything of any sort which might rock the world , her world , and her thoughts flew to the cradle .
12 Such exclusivity was viewed with horror by mainstream credal Calvinists such as Whitgift , who saw in such elitism the seeds of a subversive and divisive separatism which might threaten the very existence of a national church .
13 In the late Thirties , in that period which he described as more " moral " , he had affirmed the need for something very like a Christian revolution which might alter the structure .
14 Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) .
15 The new single-issue groups , he believed , represented a potential new element in Labour 's complex power brokerage which might tip the balance of power decisively in his direction .
16 This took place against a backdrop of reports of executions of detainees , mass expulsions through force and intimidation , and other human rights violations , as armed groups attempted to establish facts on the ground which might become the basis for any future international negotiations over territory .
17 The citation only of India , ranked 27th in US overseas markets and with a bilateral trade surplus of $850,000,000 , accounting for only 1 per cent of the US deficit , was seen by most observers as evidence that the administration was anxious not to create ill feeling which might jeopardize the " Uruguay Round " of the multinational trade negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see p. 37930 ] .
18 Nor have we seen any indications that Montupet will establish a workplace creche which might improve the chances of some women getting jobs on the shop-floor .
19 In 1964 , Phillips proposed that the addition of glucose to a properly balanced electrolyte solution would result in an oral treatment regimen which might replace the requirement for intravenous fluids altogether .
20 Her purpose was to establish a pilot project which might encourage the government to use its antenatal clinics and infant and maternal welfare clinics , of which there were more than 2,000 , to distribute information on birth control and contraceptives ; the Ministry of Health was by that time offering financial aid to the 400 local authorities who ran such clinics and could have forced them to become centres for birth control .
21 Since Anthony is above all concerned with highlighting the issues involved , rather than providing solutions , he then suggests the kind of specific accounting information which might satisfy the above four needs , and puts the arguments pro and con for each .
22 Other " get out clauses " included requests for information which might involve the supply of " unfinished documents " .
23 We have taken every step to conceal its true identity , deleted names , places , and personal details , especially information which might identify the policemen and women with whom we worked , and even , following the example of others , employed security measures to protect the field notes ( Holdaway 1983 : 13 ) .
24 Even where it was possible to draw up useful statistics , local officials were reluctant to forward information which might increase the demands made upon them by their superiors in St Petersburg .
25 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge .
26 When a vehicle is being weighed , the weigher should satisfy himself that all the wheels are on the plate and clear of the surround , and that no person is on the vehicle or the plate , or interfering in any way which might affect the weighing , and the engine must be switched off .
27 Breach of professional standards and etiquette This ground should be extended ( either specifically or generally ) to cover all instances of professional misconduct which might damage the good name of the firm .
28 So what was it that had made him go , but a furtive , half-acknowledged sense that not to have done so would have been like turning one 's back on the Crucifixion , that here perhaps at last was the litmus which might determine the validity of his readopted faith ?
29 This response suggests that patients could be infectious before sputum culture which might decrease the efficacy of relying on negative sputum culture before acceptance to meetings and other social gatherings .
30 For Anderton vehemently rejects the idea of any internal evaluation which might explore the moralities or philosophies of policing : ‘ there is simply no room in the management and organization of police operations for vague , academic dissertations ’ ( Police Review ; 90 , 19 November 1982 : 4684 ) .
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