Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [pers pn] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , you see , a lot of the er the English scriptures talk about the , the paradise in , in its right context , you can just examine the , the , the Christian script which you might get confused because there 's a lot of er things that can take them both ways |
| 2 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 3 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 4 | First , there are things which might or would have happened as consequences of some other action which he might have done instead . |
| 5 | Mill wanted to protect children against the harm which they might do themselves . |
| 6 | ( 1 ) Choose one literary text which you might work on which is representative , plus one which is well-known , plus one which is neglected ( see 2.1 ) . |
| 7 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 8 | ‘ A mahogany dining table will last a lifetime , not like a car or a three-piece suite which you might throw away after five or six years , ’ he added . |
| 9 | There are seldom any references to co-curricular activities and the important part which they might play in the whole curriculum of a school . |
| 10 | It emphasised that there were men , in both France and England , who understood the role of the sea in war and of the part which it might play in determining the outcome of future English expeditions to France . |
| 11 | The term " donor " , for example , is specific to a genre which we might call " writing about narrative in a tradition following Vladimir Propp " ; and the term " the Imaginary " is specific to the genre " recent psychoanalytically-influenced criticism " . |
| 12 | On the basis of experience then , we recognise types of communicative events which take place against the background of a mass of below-conscious expectations also based on past experience which we might summarise , following van Dijk ( 1977 : 99 ) , as ‘ the ASSUMED NORMALITY of the world . |
| 13 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 14 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 15 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 16 | The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages . |
| 17 | Students should be made aware of the above criteria and should be encouraged to carry out their own evaluation of any potential investigation which they might use for summative assessment purposes . |
| 18 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 19 | Let me give you some examples of A type behaviour which you might recognise in yourself or in other people that work with you . |
| 20 | What is known is that the truce will only hold till the losing interest group can find the opportunity to create another conflict which it might win . |
| 21 | Lord Home ordered his agents in Scotland to seize Brown as soon as he landed and to impress upon him ‘ what is very trew that if he oppose me he will dissoblige Prince Waldeck and all his officers ’ , and thus presumably ruin any chance which he might have of advancement . |
| 22 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 23 | Finding out about Kettering was , she thought , a private game which she might set herself to play on this holiday . |
| 24 | Somehow , she had a need to know all she could about him — and in there lay the conflict — because whatever she would have asked , or learned , was not for any write-up which she might hand over to her sister for her use , but was private and personal , and for her alone . |
| 25 | Make sure the abbreviation used is not a proper word which you might use elsewhere in the document . |
| 26 | be making them changing their way of operation which they might find unattractive for reasons |
| 27 | So again , it 's a thing which you might consider when you 're er letting vehicles come in front and er I the rights and wrongs of erm flashing lights , er really the only flashing lights should take the place of a horn . |
| 28 | The remaining appendices provide additional information which you might find useful . |
| 29 | The battle bus was not the great nerve centre of the nation which it might have appeared . |
| 30 | Do they also feature in cartoons in print which you might use along with the video programme ? |