Example sentences of "might [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite these qualifications from those immediately concerned , a live studio discussion was interpolated after the second , with three practitioners of the orthodox — Ian McColl , professor of surgery at Guy 's , Professor T. J. McElwaine , of the Royal Marsden , and Dr Walter Bodmer , director of research for the Imperial Cancer Fund — being ranged against , though they might demur about the word ‘ against ’ , Barbara Kidman , a broadcaster , journalist , cancer sufferer and author of a book on the alternative approach : and Dr Dick Richards , a physician and author . |
| 2 | Deferred taxation is not provided in respect of liabilities which might arise on the distribution of profits of overseas subsidiary companies , due to the availability of foreign tax credits . |
| 3 | The payment was made ‘ without any prejudice to any right to recover any payments which might arise as the result of legal proceedings ’ . |
| 4 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 5 | Finally , there are clauses that seek to make generalised advance disclosures of material interests which the fiduciary might have , or of possible conflicts of interest and duty which might arise during the course of the relationship with the customer . |
| 6 | While not representing a complete list of provisions these sections map out the range of professional social work services which should become available at the local level to deal comprehensively with difficulties that might arise in the life of a young person . |
| 7 | Declare to HCIMA any conflict of interest which might arise in the course of representing the Association . |
| 8 | The RICS check each lease to make sure there is a power of appointment ; other than that , the president did not consider it his function to determine any legal questions which might arise in the course of a rent review . |
| 9 | Yet Martha was a woman of courage , and she succeeded nobly in satisfying her hungry lodgers with wholesome fare , and spreading for them sheets a prince might fold around him ; and though the body was often weak , the spirit was lively , and soon found a way whereby to mount with ease over any difficulty that might arise in the government of her household or the entertainment of her hospices . |
| 10 | In terms of television these conflicts might arise in the deployment of outside broadcast units . |
| 11 | It was foreseen that difficult situations might arise in the operation of such a scheme , for example two elderly dementia sufferers could live next door to one another , one able to receive support from the action project and the other not . |
| 12 | What problems might arise in the future ? |
| 13 | ( The items might be set on a particular occasion as a test of the attainment of the criterion or they might arise in the context of more holistic tasks on separate occasions . ) |
| 14 | Thirdly , problems might arise from the interdependence of services . |
| 15 | the difficulties which might arise from the notion of average teacher salaries and those actually paid by the school ; |
| 16 | Rehabilitation is the first aim , minimizing and reversing the damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children ; loss of self-esteem , threats to identity and reduction in power over decision-making ( Richards , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | But , if the wife has been in receipt of the advice of a stranger whom the creditor believes on reasonable grounds to be competent , independent and disinterested , then the circumstances would need to be very exceptional before the creditor could be held bound by any equity which otherwise might arise from the husband 's conduct and his wife 's actual failure to understand the transaction … |
| 18 | This study will examine such problems , as and when they arise — and will do so through an ethnographic grasp of cultural differences and misunderstandings on topics that might range from the price of butter to question of minorities , language , drugs and terror . |
| 19 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
| 20 | They can only operate as a rough guide to classifying tables of data , and it is not possible to say how they might relate to the levels in a particular graduated test scheme . |
| 21 | The CNAA had to decide not only the merits of the particular case , but whether it would be willing and able ( under its Charter ) to validate a teachers ' certificate as well as a degree , and how it might relate to the Area Training Organizations which had some responsibility for the teaching practice component of existing courses . |
| 22 | Much work might remain for the clergy both in imposing a code of Christian morals , and in determining where the line was to run between what could and what could not form a respectable part of the Christian life . |
| 23 | I had hoped he and I might snuggle in the back of the car while his mate did the driving . |
| 24 | Instead of saying , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing , ’ they might rush to the wardrobe and put on a T-shirt that says the same thing . |
| 25 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 26 | v. Perry , 1987 F.L.R. 237 the court had to consider circumstances which differed from those in the present case and in Coldunell Ltd. v. Gallon in that a responsible official of the creditor bank took it upon himself to discharge any duty that might exist in the circumstances by personally dealing with the wife when she executed the documents under attack . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's all activity oriented contact which is a beginning to help to alter the preconceived ideas that might exist in the minds of the local community . |
| 28 | He brought this part of our conversation to an end with some remarks about the kind of world that might exist after the war . |
| 29 | But this time , Antonia 's mother had rung to ask whether Antonia might stay at the Jardines ' . |
| 30 | Ruth planned to find somewhere in Dudley where she and her grandfather might stay for the night . |