Example sentences of "that might [be] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 143 requires local authorities to compile registers of land that might be contaminated and open them for public inspection . |
| 2 | You will also need to consider what information and experience the members might have or need , the questions that might be asked and the possible answers . |
| 3 | While the house in the wife 's sole name with a fixed charge in favour of the husband facilitates the wife 's control of the property , this does not offer her the flexibility to move house that might be incorporated when the house is held by trustees until a specified event ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 4 | Theories were developed that might be regarded as dealing with such issues only in the field of conflict . |
| 5 | These memoranda , although generally avoiding comment that might be regarded as politically partisan on the question of the desirability or otherwise of devolution , contain passages which were bluntly , even scathingly , critical of the statements of the means by which the government hoped to achieve their objectives . |
| 6 | Speech that might be regarded as insulting because it attacks the cherished views and beliefs of the audience at which it is directed is in particular jeopardy from this section . |
| 7 | Defensive measures might also be justifiable as being for the good of society as a whole ( i.e. because society has an interest in the efficient operation of the business that might be damaged if the company is taken-over ) . |
| 8 | I hoped to catch Toby in the Press tent — a good bet since he kept his appearances on the course itself down to the minimum , on the grounds that his editor was not interested in golf but only in scandals that might be unearthed or invented . |
| 9 | A course on the theory of electronic publishing given to typography students is used as an example of the type of material that might be covered and how it may be structured . |
| 10 | First , there is currently an unhealthy fear of being seen with anything that might be perceived as ‘ right on ’ ( the Eighties may be over , but many of its less attractive characteristics are still very much with us ) . |
| 11 | Average fertility is so low today compared to the total number of children that might be conceived that factors affecting fecundity would be unlikely to influence final family size . |
| 12 | As part of his project of recasting psychoanalysis in post-structuralist terms , Jacques Lacan has rewritten the Cartesian cogito in a way that might be seen as approximating more to Augustine 's formulation than Descartes 's : ‘ I think where I am not , therefore I am where I do not think ’ . |
| 13 | Nor does their intelligibility ( irrespective of their truth or falsehood ) necessarily depend upon the intelligibility of some other statements that might be characterised as " irreducibly relational " — in the pluralistic sense of " relational " . |
| 14 | It should be apparent that there is a very large number of possible models that might be used and , indeed , a number of considerations involved in making this choice ( see Dunn 1989 ) . |
| 15 | It is not pertinent here to discuss all possible psychotherapeutic approaches that might be used and their indications . |
| 16 | They waited for the priest to pass along with the thin wafer of bread and while they did so their hands were like this , cupped and raised in a gesture that might be offering or receiving . |
| 17 | ‘ The computer 's first task is to see if there are any other crimes that might be associated or may be a series of offences . |
| 18 | At Barbier-Baltz , Enrico Baj and Regis Deparis are exhibiting paintings that might be described as being created by four hands , were it not for the chronological and geographical distance between the execution of the two parts of the picture . |
| 19 | As before , Johnson rails against injustice and oppression , but more as an everlasting fact of human existence than as something that might be fought and corrected . |
| 20 | The book is not confined to the needs of the conveyancing practitioner , however ; it is thought that the divorce practitioner should also have knowledge of the different types of conveyance which may be ordered by the court or agreed between the parties and the points which should be taken into account at that time , the protective measures that might be taken before the conveyance is concluded and the documentation that may be required in dealing with life policies . |
| 21 | Recall that among the possible reasons for a loss of conditioned responding with a change of context was the generalization decrement that might be expected when the event designated by the experimenter as the CS is presented in a different context . |
| 22 | Outline the difficulties that might be encountered when relating Landsat imagery to conventional maps . |