Example sentences of "that it might [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that they had a narcissistic preoccupation with their own past ; any information they could glean about ‘ savage society ’ was eagerly seized upon in the hope that it might shed further light on their own origins . |
| 2 | Doetsch found that his synthetic analogue prevented the normal development of the viral infection within the cells , prompting him to suggest that it might have therapeutic potential ( Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences , 1981 , vol 78 , p 6699 ) . |
| 3 | Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced . |
| 4 | Each hand drilled hole had to be carefully positioned in order that it might have greatest effect , but it did not matter so much with machine holes . |
| 5 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 6 | In a muddled way , he expected that she might fall into his arms , that he would be able to comfort her and that one thing would lead to another ; and so absorbed had he become in the effect Sam 's death would have on his own affairs , that he had forgotten that it might have some other effect on Martha 's . |
| 7 | And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now . |
| 8 | I dared not go to his house , fearing that it might cause further trouble for him . |
| 9 | WE got so much that we had asked for from Norman Lamont yesterday that it might seem churlish not to give his Autumn Statement an unqualified welcome . |
| 10 | The special significance of sovereign lending for a bank lies in the risk that it might prove impossible to secure restitution ( recovery of loan ) through legal action because a sovereign borrower can claim legal immunity or ignore a foreign court 's judgement by pleading ‘ force majeure ’ ( superior power ) . |
| 11 | The suggestion that it might occupy 10 per cent of curriculum time in order to do justice to it and its importance in general , and for all other subjects in particular , is normally greeted with frank incredulity . |
| 12 | Although it was being carried out at Winnington , home of ICI 's Alkali Division , it was being sponsored in part by the company 's dyestuffs interests , in the hope that it might provide new routes to organic chemicals used as intermediates . |
| 13 | The proposal attracted strong opposition , some arguing that it might withdraw legal protection from the weak and vulnerable , others arguing that the fundamental ethical problems could not be satisfactorily resolved by legal definition . |
| 14 | He said that it might take two to three years to arrive at the complete version of the social audit , which will be sent to all shareholders with the financial statements . |
| 15 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 16 | Perhaps AM was worried that it might take some of the momentum away from their PostScript imagesetter but then they hardly seem to be setting the world alight with that either . |