Example sentences of "might [vb infin] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 2 | The best performance might relate to daily production goals , sales targets or inventory levels . |
| 3 | It could be argued that they might help to identify him , but it was felt that they might relate to another crime and that if we started talking about them it might put whoever was responsible on his guard . |
| 4 | In such circumstances , social activities or a job outside the home might compensate to some extent by providing alternative sources of value . |
| 5 | There are two responses that defenders of the behavioural approach might make to this argument . |
| 6 | Then , in December 1445 , Henry VI secretly undertook the surrender of the county of Maine , in so doing appearing to renounce sovereignty over it and implying , too , that the English might yield to further pressure , military or diplomatic . |
| 7 | One might object to this definition of free will on the grounds that once we find a complete unified theory we will be able to predict what people will do . |
| 8 | Finally I asked what criminal law might contribute to legal theory . |
| 9 | Turning , then , to the relationship of criminal law and legal theory , I asked what legal theory might contribute to criminal law and I dealt with two central issues ; first , the limits of exposition imposed by the nature of legal rules which , I argue , are essentially incomplete and therefore incapable of a final , exhaustive statement ; and , secondly , the nature of methodological purity , where I argue against a tendency to distort data to fit a favoured critical principle . |
| 10 | Only a few exceptional women were likely to take advantage of equal education opportunities , though on grounds of utility alone , Mill argued that it was important for this small pool of female talent to be permitted free choice of occupation so that it might contribute to human development . |
| 11 | Lloyd George perhaps entertained similar doubts , for his first reactions were to suggest that he should resign too , and to ask if he might speak to Bonar Law 's doctor . |
| 12 | Perhaps , after other moves by the teacher , such as crumbling the chalk , being countered in a similar way , the determined teacher might resort to chemical analysis . |
| 13 | Now from a creature of five senses , we might aspire to that creature that Voltaire conceived of that had a hundred senses . |
| 14 | Investigations should therefore aim at identifying patients with tumours that might respond to systemic treatment ( either chemotherapy or some form of endocrine manipulation ) . |
| 15 | Those that did not depend upon the land or the sea she might transpose to another setting . |
| 16 | But possibly not ; the rain , and the town between , might have to some extent blanketed the noise , from the camp . |
| 17 | On the other hand , our log-power estimates have only approximately a gaussian distribution , and this might lead to incorrect calculation of the likelihood of local peaks . |
| 18 | Any organisms that might lead to increased release of carbon dioxide , or methane , are clearly not to be welcomed in a world that is currently experiencing warming due to the enhanced greenhouse effect . |
| 19 | So transfer of germs to the vagina does happen — and it 's possible those germs might lead to vaginal discharge . |
| 20 | They remark that this ‘ might lead to all rape cases being regarded less seriously . ’ |
| 21 | On the other hand the Security Council may investigate ‘ any dispute ’ which might lead to international friction , not merely those between member States , and any member State may bring such a situation or dispute to its attention . |
| 22 | Talk was of a minor disciplinary measure by management that might lead to industrial action . |
| 23 | Whether and how that might lead to radical change of practice was another issue . |
| 24 | There was increased military representation , reflecting the leadership 's concern that economic reforms might lead to civil unrest . |
| 25 | Now in his late 40s , Mr Rees told the meeting of about 150 Samaritans that transsexualism , if untreated , might lead to mental illness . |
| 26 | In the aftermath of the Police Strike , senior officers were doubly concerned to prevent the kind of rank-and-file interaction that might lead to common cause against their superiors . |
| 27 | Ascertainment bias might lead to earlier detection of cancer in regularly supervised patients , but against this as a factor in our case the survival times in cancer patients and the frequency of incident and fatal cancers were not different in clinic patients and controls ( figs 1 and 2 ; table II ) . |
| 28 | Flow charts are a useful record of a process but are not particularly suited as a basis for analysis which might lead to improved job design or training . |
| 29 | Although the techniques for these are not available at present , recent continuing advances in the field of molecular biology and tumour suppressor gene research might lead to some benefit with gene therapy in the future . |
| 30 | Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) . |