Example sentences of "that might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a Soiree in the spring of 1887 and again in 1888 at which " only a few psalms were to be sung , thereby keeping clear of any danger that might creep into our churches by hymns or any other kind of pieces of music . " |
| 2 | There was a Soiree in the spring of 1887 and again in 1888 at which " only a few psalms were to be sung , thereby keeping clear of any danger that might creep into our churches by hymns or any other kind of pieces of music . " |
| 3 | But unknown to most of his colleagues he was busily collecting information that might bear on the question of how a species might change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 4 | ‘ And when you and your royal half-brother have been sucked dry of every drop of accursed wolfseed by the Frost Giantess ; when you have been deprived of every drop that might bear fruit in some unknown womb and create another wolfcreatury , I shall give you both to the Soul Eaters . |
| 5 | One can therefore make detailed models of objects that might contain black holes and compare the predictions of the models with observations . |
| 6 | The " time risk " illustrated in the drawing is interesting because of the inevitability of failure : the risk is shifted to the estimation of the length of time that might elapse before that failure . |
| 7 | Things that might irritate you ? ’ she asked carefully . |
| 8 | It shows how little the FBI really understood about film production that their proposals to improve the situation focused on increasing the quantity of production , rather than stimulating a few high-quality pictures that might promote British prestige abroad . |
| 9 | Despite the rhetoric of UNESCO that literacy is an instrument of liberation , most governments have consciously avoided programmes that might promote independent thinking or encourage political action . |
| 10 | Is there any positive evidence that might prompt us to adopt the more complex position that differentiation occurs as well ? |
| 11 | The tea goal is used here in the special way current in linguistic theorizing , and is to be distinguished from the ultimate goals or motivations that might prompt interest in a theory . |
| 12 | Equally you know things that might prompt people to talk , to describe dreams , to tell stories and that |
| 13 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 14 | But on the long , split bench of the chapel , the floppy red book of hymns in my hands , I used to imagine every possible circumstance that might deflect the loving attention of the angel . |
| 15 | He got to his feet and walked on tip-toe to the kitchen door , where he pressed his face close to the crack , listening for any sound that might tell him what to expect . |
| 16 | She waited a few seconds for any sounds that might tell her that her mother was in there but out of her range of sight . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , supplements to the OPV regimen that might hasten eradication should also be evaluated . |
| 18 | Neighbouring countries closed their borders , both to travellers and to goods that might carry the infection — particularly fish , Peru 's speciality . |
| 19 | It is wrong because you can eliminate all of the possible sensory mechanisms that might detect the tissue disturbance produced by a particular form of deprivation and motivation still persists . |
| 20 | One of the main aims of our experiments was to try and detect candidate repressor proteins that might function through direct interaction with CREB . |
| 21 | Since her death he had never wanted to touch anything that might remind him of her . |
| 22 | Exorcising ghosts , no memories , it all has to be cleansed of anything that might remind him , no shadows of personality to be left behind like a coat on a hook , no toothbrush in a glass like a withered flower . |
| 23 | For many of those people it is probably a godsend when someone hands them a piece of paper that might unlock the door to access to a benefit that they would otherwise not receive . |
| 24 | And what I 'm looking for , Coffin thought , is what they might not remember , the little details , the sequence of small events that might shift Ted Mosse into a different perspective . |
| 25 | Three newspaper man with nothing else to report , since the Transvaal crisis was deemed beyond their capability , were despatched to Broadstairs to try to rootle out any facts that might justify a further paragraph . |
| 26 | What are the market failures that might justify government intervention through industrial policy ? |
| 27 | The others are less fierce , but still prohibit any relationship that might affect a lawyer 's ability to handle a case properly . |
| 28 | Theorists say that a stockmarket is ‘ efficient ’ if prices take account of all information that is available that might affect a firm 's future cash flow . |
| 29 | Next , go to see the local planning officer and the building control officer and ask them if they know of anything that might affect the house , and show them your list . |
| 30 | Your parents are legally responsible for you and one of them ought to know about anything that might affect your health , either emotionally or physically . |