Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adj] a [noun sg] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take the example given earlier , it is necessary to show that the statement about the toothache can indeed be paraphrased into a statement about the corresponding neuro-physiological event ( and hence that the occurrence of the latter event is a logically adequate criterion for ascribing the experience in the given instance ) , and this can not be done without making use of the premisses which such a proof might be expected to underpin . |
| 2 | This is a worrying development for publishers , and there is little evidence in the book trade of the establishment of another source from which such a service might otherwise be obtained . |
| 3 | The only way in which such a procedure might be excused is if the societies from which the samples were drawn were homogeneous — an assumption which is hard to sustain . |
| 4 | Whatever such a literature might lack in technical sophistication will , it is alleged , be more than compensated for by ideological exuberance . |
| 5 | It is difficult to see what such a procedure might be . |
| 6 | In order to see what such a constraint might mean , we assume that the lump-sum transfers have to be employed in fixed proportions ( ) , and that there is no capital tax . |
| 7 | ( The Double Helix , by James Watson , which tells of the race to find the molecular structure of DNA , is perhaps an example of what such a book might be like . ) |