Example sentences of "might have [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In chapter 1 , for instance , we considered the effect which different theories of understanding might have on certain sceptical arguments ; and a theory of understanding is only a theory of meaning under another name .
2 Rational people will predict them and thereby annul any effect they might have on real variables .
3 Terry Sangwin , the nurse manager for the medical unit , thought staff in the hospital still needed much more information about what would happen , and she feared the planners did n't realise the impact community care might have on acute hospitals .
4 They also warned against the cumulative effect that any US reforms might have on future profitability .
5 It was no part of Owen 's plan to let his whole company lurk there , now that they were compromised ; in case of close inquiry that would have been all too clear an indication of Llewelyn 's unofficial complicity in the enterprise , and however little doubt Isambard himself might have on that head , it would not do to let it be established and admitted .
6 We believe the need to consider the impact that refusing to permit minerals applications might have on local economies is adequately covered by the requirement to demonstrate they are ‘ in the public interest ’ ( MPG6 , paragraph 63 ) .
7 We believe the need to consider the impact that refusing to permit minerals applications might have on local economies is adequately covered by the requirement to demonstrate they are ‘ in the public interest ’ ( MPG6 , paragraph 63 ) .
8 The greatest insecurity lingering in investors ' minds was the lack of effect the rate rises had on the dollar 's ascent and the inflationary implications this might have for European economies .
9 Such a restructuring of the education system is something that Warnock ( 1988 ) points to as being long overdue , but she makes only fleeting references to the implications that this might have for special needs .
10 Thus it was hoped that they would seize any opportunity of increasing awareness and understanding of mental frailty in old age , among professionals , lay carers and local people in such a way as to increase people 's sympathy and confidence in any contacts they might have with elderly mentally frail people .
11 The difficulties that a Martian or child might have with such a system are neatly illustrated in the following Yiddish story : A melamed [ Hebrew teacher ] discovering that he had left his comfortable slippers back in the house , sent a student after them with a note for his wife .
12 Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " .
13 In the interbank market , banks offer surplus deposits which they might have to other banks .
14 We might have to overnight at Chernay .
15 But possibly not ; the rain , and the town between , might have to some extent blanketed the noise , from the camp .
16 Occasionally a charge on a shield of arms , or the interpretation of a crest can be an important clue in the determination of seignorial affiliation , in linking two families with different names , or suggesting a hitherto unsuspected landholding , quite apart from the visual attraction an achievement might have as stained glass , stone carving or hatchment in the local church .
17 Consequently , they never really probe the significance of what those two activities might have in common .
18 They must be attentive to all the susceptibilities that people might have in this connection , and ensure that all of them played a part in resolving the tasks that arose in a society of this kind .
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