Example sentences of "to which [pron] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | Like many socialists and intellectuals educated in the traditions of the high establishment , he fussed about the education of his own children and about the schools to which they might go . |
2 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
3 | To which we might add the question whether the book he read is still there . |
4 | Looking at the specific people and events mentioned , the degree to which one might talk of ‘ organisation ’ seems somewhat open to question . |
5 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |
6 | to which one might add this additional gloss , erm recently there have been under a statutory instrument which regulates er , the ca computation of court of protection costs in the event of the structure in a way differently from the traditional one and the defendants would wish to argue |
7 | Our system of government is being changed , with increasing disregard for tradition , the only unwritten rules to which one might appeal as ‘ constitutional ’ principles . |
8 | Mr Davis , can you , would you like to sum up , and pick up these points , and before , I 'm going to bowl you a googly here , erm you have talked about fourteen hundred , as the size for the new settlement , erm , is that the top figure , or is that a figure to which you might aim by the year two thousand and six , but may have potential for growth beyond it . |
9 | I knew that there was one place , and one place only — and there one person only — to which I might turn for help ! |
10 | To which I might say that , rationalist or not , I had spent too many years in my capacity as church architect investigating the fossils of a dead faith not to have imbibed something of the old superstitions . |
11 | How strange that from all the many places to which she might have been drafted , chance had come up with Ardneavie . |
12 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
13 | Having ignored her for forty minutes whilst they failed to answer questions about Amy to which she might know the answer , Theodora might perhaps have been forgiven for telling them nothing . |