Example sentences of "[noun sg] that might [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The African elephant shrew , a highly-strung insect-eating mammal the size of a mouse with a nose drawn out into a mobile trunk , depends for its safety on knowing its trails better than any hunter that might chase it . |
| 2 | Secondly , the unique position of the sole practitioner in the network of legal services countrywide was often invoked to dampen enthusiasm for the imposition of restrictions on sole practice that might undermine its commercial viability . |
| 3 | Then he said , ‘ I heard a story that might interest you . ’ |
| 4 | There was not a soul in sight as Theda began resolutely to trudge down the street , looking for a lane that might lead her off the main road , which , being only of packed dirt , was already a hasty-pudding of mud which churned under her mercifully booted feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't make any noise that might attract it . ’ |
| 6 | Traditionally , 24 hours of heart beat would be recorded on a device using a cassette tape , which works perfectly well , but it has the obvious problems of mechanical parts , moving parts , it makes a noise that might keep you awake at night . |
| 7 | Checking that the straps on her equipment were tight enough to prevent anything moving and making a noise that might alert anyone nearby , Ace slipped through a stand of bushes to get a better view of the road . |
| 8 | Thus his/her students will probably receive from him/her no feedback of a kind that might help them learn from his/her response to their work . |
| 9 | Yet others may lack both religious belief and any experience that might make them dubious of their secularism . |
| 10 | With the white pieces , he seemed intent on avoiding any continuation that might give him an advantage , playing into total equality , then drifting into an inferior position and time-trouble . |
| 11 | Generations of subservience had taught the humble Irish not to answer any question that might get them into trouble . |
| 12 | When I say it 's the sort of answer you want I mean it 's the sort that might help you ! |
| 13 | Well they had a particularly bad time many of them lost absolutely everything and now they 're protesting cos the Lloyds people are only coming up with a nine hundred million pound rescue package that might give them some of them back half of what they invested . |
| 14 | What else is going on in this person 's life at the moment that might make your intervention ‘ the last straw ’ ; for example , family illness , death , anniversaries of death , separation or divorce , loss of job , being accused of abuse of some sort ? |
| 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 | He held his breath , not wanting to make the slightest sound that might betray his presence . |
| 17 | No one at the university was to know of his DIA connection , and to avoid any written record that might compromise his cover , Donleavy arranged for him to be paid during this period with American Express money orders drawn at 7–11 stores around Falls Church , Virginia . |
| 18 | Yes my Lord I I I 'm not going to invite your Lordship t to take a great deal of time reading reports that state in detail erm but I think the witness statements and I think probably the documentation that might help your Lordship at this stage er to see something of the and to ensure that where evidence is given it can proceed fairly fairly quickly . |
| 19 | The senator had beaten down my last defences , and now offered me a compromise that might make my surrender to his wishes more acceptable . |
| 20 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 21 | Is there any positive evidence that might prompt us to adopt the more complex position that differentiation occurs as well ? |
| 22 | To date relatively little attention has been paid to the detailed morphological evidence that might indicate which , if any , of the proposed models is applicable to any particular passive margin . |
| 23 | These other features of the model have yet to be fully developed and experimental evidence that might allow us to evaluate them is sparse . |
| 24 | EXPERIMENTAL If so , what did you actually do to provide evidence that might persuade your reader ? |
| 25 | I have already discussed the notion of relative novelty in the course of an analysis of habituation ( Chapter 2 , pp. 44–5 ) and failed to come up with hard evidence that might require us to accept its reality . |
| 26 | These are people with a genuine interest in history coupled with a knowledge that might surprise you , considering they are amateurs . |
| 27 | Any piece of rotten meat that could still be found in the enclave was slipped over an improvised fish hook , attached to a rope and hurled over the parapet in the vain hope of catching a jackal or a pariah dog that might swallow it . |
| 28 | Were we to suppose that life was purposive , that everything was part of a planned progression due to culminate in the appearance of man or some other creature that might rival him in dominating the world , then the echinoderms could be dismissed as of no consequence . |
| 29 | Conceivably , the shipping company could be sold off as a going concern that might bring it up to about 1Op in the Pound . " |
| 30 | But there 's nothing unusual about the appearance of either man that might help us ? ’ |