Example sentences of "[prep] which [pron] might [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a shortage of trained teachers and the planning of schools reflected this circumstance ; most of the instruction was done in a large school-room , off which there might be one or two classrooms which were used for teaching smaller groups . |
| 2 | Whereas water and electricity were broken up into different private companies between which there might be a degree of competition , British Telecom ( BT ) and British Gas were essentially privatized intact . |
| 3 | This generation , not having directly experienced large populations of immigrant , foreign-looking Jews , will abandon the preoccupations of former leaders and will encourage fascist parties to concentrate on prejudices for which there might be direct electoral advantage . |
| 4 | Fears were expressed by some of those present that the Government emphasis — and funding — would be concentrated on practical research for which there might be some profitable return rather than on basic research which carried less obvious spin-offs . |
| 5 | In the past , choice was more important , and then national groups were much like many other groups of which one might be a member . |
| 6 | Finally , there is the Governing Board of the College , of which you might be one of the student representatives . |
| 7 | He had performed a most notable feat of navigation , of which anyone might be justifiably proud , in bringing the ship straight here after eleven weeks without sighting land . |
| 8 | Advise Arthur , Bert and Charlie as to any rights of action they might have in tort against Chartist plc and as to any defences with which they might be met . |
| 9 | 4(5) This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; but in section 1(3) of this Act the expression ‘ liable in tort ’ does not include any reference to liability by virtue of this Act , or to liability by virtue of any such law . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) The Act of 1976 expressly recognised the possibility that under the pre-existing law ‘ a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ’ see section 4(5) . |
| 11 | ‘ This Act applies in respect of births after ( but not before ) its passing , and in respect of any such birth it replaces any law in force before its passing , whereby a person could be liable to a child in respect of disabilities with which it might be born ; … |
| 12 | to develop and pilot-test items and consider the nature of the tests into which they might be assembled ; |
| 13 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 14 | Perhaps what is most important is that the nature of such identifiable UFO categories , and the conditions under which they might be observed , are predictable , after careful analysis of the data . |
| 15 | The model takes such actions for granted because its reduction of macro to micro has bracketed out the conditions under which it might be put in question . |
| 16 | Those who advocate tough policies , particularly those who do not seriously question the broad political economic context in which they might be implemented ( such as Hardin 1977 ; Hardin & Baden 1977 ) , underestimate these difficulties and some obvious lessons from history . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Having grasped the educational import of the manyattas , Windley cast around for ways in which they might be adapted for administrative purposes . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In the face of even further diversion of financial resources for training away from special needs , can we build on what expertise we have to find economic and yet effective ways to overcome the present difficulties , to deepen all teachers ' understanding of learning and behaviour problems and of the way in which they might be resolved within the learning situation of the classroom ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In all this , we are dealing with the implicit , contrary themes of attitudinal arguments and the contexts in which they might be developed explicitly . |
| 23 | The complexity of these relations , and the manner in which they might be used as a model of dynamic mechanisms to extend the concept of objectification from a simple dialectical cycle , is evident in Klein 's discussion of infantile hallucinatory gratification . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | That is not an unreasonable thing to do when one considers the circumstances in which they might be living . |
| 26 | This is just as true of whole group dramas in which we might be working in role alongside the children as in small group work or performance based work . |
| 27 | Mrs Gaskell , writing to an American friend in 1860 , certainly thought that those in Streatham Street were not designed to be so : ‘ There is but one sink & c for every floor ; the fireplaces were the poorest kind of parlour grate , over or by which there was not the least [ hope ] of cooking ; there was not a peg , a shelf , or a cupboard , or even a recess in which one might be cheaply made . ’ |
| 28 | That will give you a fair idea of the sort of environment in which institutions are placed , and the sort of environment in which you might be happy , and again , go for the environment in which you think you will be happiest . |
| 29 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 30 | Should anyone be interested , I would gladly co-ordinate their efforts — one of the few ways in which I might be able to help the Society from this distance ’ . |