Example sentences of "which might [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tutwork was also estimated on a tonnage basis , the miners being paid on a bargain according to the actual weight of material extracted , which might be either ore or stone . |
| 2 | They too , spoke enthusiastically about , for example , the opportunities offered by The Machine Gunners for emotional empathy with the world of the child versus the world of the adult ; the emotional pleasure pupils frequently found in empathizing with Billy 's relationship with the hawk , and the themes and topics raised by Kes ; the complex nature of the link between humans and animals offered as a theme in The Red Pony ; the thematic possibilities of the Irish location of Across the Barricades together with its handling of prejudice ; and the understanding of allegory and its special features which might be well illustrated by a reading of Animal Farm . |
| 3 | This may be the warmest spot in the garden providing an opportunity to grow wall plants or climbers which might be scarcely hardy elsewhere . |
| 4 | What if he were trapped in here until Vic returned , which might be soon ? |
| 5 | For the sequentiality , the " and then " sense of and in sentences like ( 32 ) , is simply a standard implicature due to the fourth sub-maxim of Manner , which provides a pragmatic overlay on the semantic content of and wherever descriptions of two events , which might be sequentially ordered , are conjoined . |
| 6 | And it 's preferable to have a golf course rather than agricultural land which might be heavily dosed with chemicals six times a year , which is more than the average course . ’ |
| 7 | This awkwardness which might be successfully exploited by a writer in a different context , forces itself on the reader 's attention , detracting from the force of discreet . |
| 8 | In his earlier work Hare seemed to believe that there were alternative moral stances to the world , each of which might be equally rational , though we may quite properly condemn some of them from the perspective of the morality which we ourselves advocate . |
| 9 | Whereas in the examples taken from scenes one and three , Anderson fulfils the Interest Principle by merely 'saying what is unpredictable and hence interesting " ( Leech 1983 : 146 ) , in later scenes he uses irony to implicate propositions which might be too face-threatening to be made directly or ironic understatement to be deliberately impolite . |
| 10 | Because , according to Pöhl , ‘ monetary policy must not be obstructed by fiscal policy ’ , an ‘ independent ’ central bank would not only be completely unprecedented in recent history , it would also represent an immense concentration of power in the hands of unaccountable bankers , who would perforce be implementing policies which might be very unpopular , within an area in which there may well not be the kind of national consensus which obtains in Germany . |
| 11 | It is always " by your leave and if you please " , and the influence in controlling , which might be very great … is only exerted through position , knowledge and willingness to help . " |
| 12 | Generalizations about the state of the towns in late medieval England are , however , risky ; each had its own history , which might be very different from that of its neighbour , and it is likely that even when more individual studies have been made of particular towns the general picture will be one of diversity rather than of similarity . |
| 13 | Do not make favourites of certain remedies as the smaller lesser used remedies which might be more helpful will be overlooked . |
| 14 | Leaving aside for the moment the special interest groups which might be more amenable to user education programmes , let us look at work with adults with no allegiance to the public library other than that they are committed users of the service . |
| 15 | stopping people sniffing one thing may turn them to other substances which might be more dangerous . |
| 16 | Are there safer or less extreme treatments which might be more effective ? |
| 17 | If you have been out of nursing or health visiting for six months or less you may feel that completing a formal course is a waste of valuable time which might be more profitably spent in reorientation to your new job . |
| 18 | A third possibility which might be more attractive if you are fairly close to normal retirement age is to leave your pension in your former employer 's scheme . |
| 19 | Regulation which might be more costly in the short term than the actual abuses it seeks to regulate , may be justifiable in the long run . |
| 20 | This committee scrutinised the case of each prisoner serving a life sentence in order to set the date for the first review , which might be more than seven years after the date of sentence . |
| 21 | One possible definition of I 1 is the initial margin payment , which might be about 4% of the price of the future ( Bear , 1972 ; Brooks and Hand , 1988 ; Francis , 1991 ; Gressis , Vlahos and Philippatos , 1984 ; Levy , 1987 ; Niederhoffer and Zeckhauser , 1980 ; Panton and Joy , 1978 ; Robichek , Cohn and Pringle , 1972 ; Schrock , 1971 ; Turner , Houston and Shepherd , 1992 ; Yau , Savanayana and Schneeweis , 1990 ) , while Lukac , Brorsen and Irwin ( 1988a ; 1988b ) and Marshall and Herbst ( 1992 ) defined the investment as the initial margin plus the funds set aside to cover subsequent margin payments . |
| 22 | Some of the landowning agencies that are most restrictive are those which might be though to be answerable to the public , or have their best interests at heart : the Forestry Commission , the Ministry of Defence and sometimes even the National Trust come to mind . |
| 23 | This meant that the effect of factors ( for example , female activity rate ) which might be extremely important in particular instances could be lost simply because of the impact of much more general variables ( such as low density of manufacturing employment ) . |
| 24 | There is an irony in the unverifiability of Shils 's theory which might be fairly condensed to ‘ Who says society says integration ’ . |
| 25 | The confidentiality letter should cover both the memorandum and also any additional information which might be subsequently released . |
| 26 | The occasion was a lobby briefing when Rab quipped : ‘ capax imperii nil nisi imperasset , ’ which might be roughly translated as : apparently able to govern until called upon to do so . |
| 27 | They voted the local taxes for the governors ' salaries which might be as high as £2,000 a year ( a hundred times a labourer 's wage , and 40 per cent of the prime Minister 's salary ) , and sometimes they felt governors should earn their salaries by letting the assembly have its own way . |
| 28 | Fisher saw that this mind was not the grammarian or writer of Greek and Latin prose such as Cambridge liked , but was a meditative , half-philosophical mind , which might be better suited in the Oxford school . |
| 29 | In an adjudication published today , the Press Council does not uphold the complaint , saying it represented a re-run of complaints made by the Lamplughs about Mr Stephen 's book and was likely to ‘ reopen and prolong a dispute which might be better left unpursued . ’ |
| 30 | Rear panel furniture is limited to a set of analogue outputs for connection to an amplifier input , and a coaxial digital output which might be better used for later upgrading via an outboard digital converter . |