Example sentences of "[Wh det] might be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Historicists ' 'reciprocal concern with the historicity of texts and the textuality of history' would set up an exchange which might be assumed to be awkward . |
| 2 | The trauma which might be caused to the victim by the publication of the criminal 's story might well outweigh any potential pecuniary receipt . |
| 3 | Hood has standardised on modular 386DXs , which might be upgraded to a 486DX by a single board swap . |
| 4 | One may compare such a public certification of the title with the stamp on a coin , which attests the genuineness of the metal , whereas the system of private investigation of title is as if a man was obliged to employ an expert analyst to test the genuineness of the coins which might be tendered to him . |
| 5 | At the meeting when the Council approved this document it also received a paper entitled ‘ Academic freedoms which might be granted to colleges ’ , directed towards ‘ relaxing controls ’ . |
| 6 | A deictic element is not a term as such , but some part of the utterance which might be said to be deictic . |
| 7 | He insisted that this was a voice with characteristic qualities which might be exploited to some purpose on the air . |
| 8 | Preparation can aid negotiators by analysing the kinds of concessions which might be offered to the other side . |
| 9 | He recommends that the reader attempt to identify questions through the figures ( such as ‘ Why is the tax charge so low ? ’ ) which might be directed to the company 's management ( or an analyst ) or which might lead the reader to avoid investment if he does not like the answer . |
| 10 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 11 | In addition , students would take one option from the range of theology or development courses at the university , and write a dissertation which might be linked to the seminar series . |
| 12 | Some of the topics which might be suggested to learners are : |
| 13 | The Act gives no indication of circumstances which might be deemed to be exceptional . |
| 14 | The advantages of such a mechanism are clear , it is possible to manipulate the model and thus understand the outside world in the sense of predicting what will happen without the potential costs of attempting to manipulate the real world and allowing things to happen , some of which might be considered to be unfortunate . |
| 15 | Librarians recognize the need for an appropriate balance to be maintained within the materials which they make available to reflect differing extremes or shades of opinion on matters which might be thought to be contentious . |
| 16 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be thought to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 17 | The first three of these are clearly concerned with the treatment of third-country nationals , and it is therefore of interest to note that the question of visa policy , which might be thought to be implicit in the second and third objectives mentioned above will fall within the scope of Community competence by virtue of the new Article 100C of the EEC Treaty introduced by the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 18 | We can not say how many of these are primarily curricular in nature , and how many were motivated by the prospects of additional money which might be attached to a statement under local formula funding arrangements . |
| 19 | That report will make recommendations on the pay increase to be given to schoolteachers next year , with particular regard to any modifications which might be introduced to the system of selective payments to increase the flexibility of employers in meeting the needs of recruitment and retention . |
| 20 | The counsellor should seek to assess the various factors which might be contributing to the ill-health of the older individual . |
| 21 | Where research studies have been carried out in different parts of the country it is difficult to disentangle anything which might be attributed to regional variations specifically , from other systematic variations by gender , class , ethnicity or variations over time ( that is where changes in patterns of family relationships have occurred between the 1960s and the 1980s ) . |
| 22 | The linguistic acrobatics these words perform in Rusty 's mind and the various interpretations which might be attributed to the results are of less consequence in and of themselves than the fact that this performance demonstrates verbal operations of a logic other than that attributed to the rational mind . |
| 23 | In general there is evidence of positive net benefits for employers but that a large proportion of further employment which might be attributed to the scheme restricts employment of other potential employees . |
| 24 | In practice , moreover , treatments for such patients tend to be chosen empirically and worked through on a trial and error basis , whatever might be thought to be the underlying pathophysiology . |
| 25 | What might be seen to be a hurdle is that the ‘ likely adverse effects on the animals concerned ’ will be weighed against ‘ the benefit likely to accrue as a result of the programme ’ ( 5.4 ) . |
| 26 | And that 's money we have to spend , and it in a way that was a controversial decision because members of the Council were genuinely concerned about spending money on what might be seen to be central services , when they were having to face not improving staffing in elderly persons ' homes . |
| 27 | We are suggesting the establishment of what might be referred to in shorthand as " Ofbus " , along the lines of Oftel and Ofgas . |
| 28 | The section does not create what might be referred to as a permit requirement , since subject to what is said below , it does not empower the police to refuse permission to hold the procession , as is the law in certain other jurisdictions . |
| 29 | To illustrate , I will take what might be thought to be an example posing relatively few problems — the case of the Loch Ness monster . |
| 30 | Beyond the brief : All three are prepared , indeed eager , to go beyond what might be thought to be the narrow design brief and comment on the nature and selection of the material they are asked to make attractive and intelligible on the page . |