Example sentences of "might [vb infin] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stressed that attempts should be made to minimise any hardship they might experience to the greatest extent possible , as long as these did not prejudice the children 's best interests . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Whatever his motives , Salah was careful to underplay the contribution education might make to the emancipation and liberation of women . |
| 7 | Much attention is now being paid to the contribution which differences in labour market flexibility might make to the explanation of international differences in unemployment rates and economic growth . |
| 8 | It 's gripping , moving and unexceptionable ( although purists might object to the interweaving of the very different gospel stories ) . |
| 9 | The hot-rod 's flexible definition means that even a car straight from Chrysler 's factory might appeal to the fashion-conscious . |
| 10 | This might fall to the college itself , to the local Chamber of Commerce or , more likely , to the Training and Enterprise Council ( TEC ) . |
| 11 | He feared the advantages which might fall to the USSR in the resultant confusion . |
| 12 | Although , as Ferril readily admits , many of the rites performed by the ‘ twenty-two young priests of perfect physique , might appear to the uninitiated as a chaotic conflict concerned only with hurting the oval by kicking it ’ , the pattern of worship is highly stylized . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh thought that however ferocious he might appear to the outside world his children had no fear of him . |
| 14 | Batch production work is often of this kind and in general it is by no means as unchanging or boring as it might appear to the casual visitor to the factory . |
| 15 | The care which other carers might give to the child only becomes relevant if the threshold test is met . |
| 16 | ‘ And if you do n't mind my saying so , ’ he continued in that same soft , gentle voice , so at variance with his appearance , ‘ you appear to give to sales what vampires might give to the transfusion service . ’ |
| 17 | He was certain the brutal oriental intended to kill them no matter what assurances he might give to the contrary , because of the trouble each had caused him . |
| 18 | FOREIGN exchange dealers who were imagining what John Smith as Chancellor might do to the value of the pound if Labour wins the election , were yesterday ambushed instead by one Antonio Cavaco Silva , prime minister of Portugal . |
| 19 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 20 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 21 | No allowance is made for the separate contribution that the reader himself might bring to the text , and that might help to determine its meaning and effect . |
| 22 | Similarly , her consideration of wearing a crucifix as jewellery was linked to assumptions that individuals might ascribe to the wearer . |
| 23 | The full technical instructions on the can stated that the contents ought not to be applied beyond a recommended stage of crop growth as damage might result to the crop . |
| 24 | Then even the choice of the surface ( having the wire as its boundary ) might tax to the limit one 's meagre imagination , let alone the calculation of the flux . |
| 25 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 26 | And if this seems an exaggeration then we might refer to the aims of a document entitled ‘ Information skills in the secondary curriculum ’ which was the result of the recommendations of a working group sponsored by the British Library and the Schools Council , and which embodies most of the current thinking on user education in schools . |
| 27 | As a further illustration of an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity in Western thought , we might refer to the mystical approach to nature of the poet Wordsworth , who claims to have felt in nature : |
| 28 | We might refer to the former as ‘ classroom-oriented research ’ ( see Seliger and Long 1983 ) and the latter as ‘ classroom-centred research ’ ( see Allwright 1983 ) . |
| 29 | ( You might refer to the ways in which industry can be organized over space ; to patterns and forms of uneven development ; to how it changes over time . ) |
| 30 | Waste ore is a somewhat obscure term and in this context might refer to the residual sand and gravel , which did have a market of sorts . |