Example sentences of "[indef pn] which might [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the explanation for the violent outburst lies in something which might understandably lead a person to be so angry as to lose self-control , then this supplies an added reason for mitigating the offence and the sentence . |
| 2 | ‘ While you were away , I remembered something which might just help . ’ |
| 3 | The to infinitive thus evokes the occurrence of an event as contingent , as something which might not have happened and which in fact was not expected to happen : the closest paraphrase is " that he should find himself alone " . |
| 4 | The Meteorological Office said calculations from local records put such rain in the ‘ very rare event ’ category , something which might only happen there once in 500 years . |
| 5 | But when it is used to describe what happens during reading , or any attempt at reading , it seems to stand for something less focused and further from full awareness — something which might more appropriately be called ‘ anticipation ’ or ‘ expectancy ’ . |
| 6 | Looking back over this year 's first round matches , obviously Germany 's defeat in Rio by Brazil , amid what can only be described as typical South American frenzy and excitement , was the biggest shock and one which might even lead to repercussions not only by the ITF about crowd behaviour in some parts of the world but also from within the disgruntled German camp . |
| 7 | ‘ … in 1940–1 a mere accident , and one which might easily have occurred , could … have reversed the outcome of the war and transformed the subsequent shape of the world ’ . |
| 8 | It makes an enchanting conclusion to the set , and one which might well influence one 's decision to purchase . |
| 9 | The offices were in a high building , one which might well have been neat and prosperous around the time that Dickens was labelling bottles in a boot-blacking warehouse ; now its main value lay in the soaring price of the land on which it stood . |
| 10 | A less legitimate gain , but one which might still be made in an unsuccessful war , was to exploit the system of contracting to provide troops . |
| 11 | I am not referring to the conservative perspective which condemns sexual deviance per se , but to another viewpoint , one which might actually endorse deviance in principle , at least if it were seen as a quest for authentic selfhood of the kind explored in Chapter 3 . |
| 12 | Thus there is liability 9–09 for defects in virtually anything which might conceivably be considered a product , including goods , electricity , gas and vapours . |