Example sentences of "[noun] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaucer uses this opportunity to present two quite contrasting tales , Sir Thopas and Melibee , the one a tail-rhyme romance , the other a moral example in prose ; two tales which in turn represent quite contrasting aspects of the one narratorial character , being two quite contrasting versions of what type of tale an audience or readership might think Chaucer " ought " to tell . |
| 2 | All too easily they feared , a recce might leave traces of the visit which , even if the lone navigator was not captured , could give away the intended landing point for an assault force . |
| 3 | The oldest book source that Highlanders might refer to for plant lore is probably the Bible . |
| 4 | One person informed us that he lost four and a half stone doing jury service : we considered sending on his letter to weight-watchers , so that the future courtroom might feature twelve fat men and true . |
| 5 | He wondered what hideous deformity might lie beneath the silken cloak and the deep dark hood . |
| 6 | Yet portions cling to the style of days gone by , when a salt beef sandwich might have been the single meal of the day . |
| 7 | So great and rapid is the devastation that some have feared that the entire reef might disappear — even though it contains 3000 separate coral islands , stretched 2000 km along the Queensland coast , and covering an area the size of Great Britain . |
| 8 | Jen might think she 's a bit tarty but she plays a tarty bit in it does n't she ? |
| 9 | Without a word , Jane turned and fled into the sitting room , leaving Patrick alone on the stairs , wondering what her reply might have been . |
| 10 | First , the defendant might argue that he believed in the victim 's consent since she permitted penetration although he knew full well that she had no understanding of the act . |
| 11 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 12 | The plaintiff is playing with higher stakes because the cost penalty is likely to be bigger than the amount by which the defendant might overestimate the claim . |
| 13 | But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone , a defendant might escape punishment altogether . |
| 14 | On the other hand , excitation within a band concerned mainly with the ligand might result in enhancement of the intensity of internal ligand vibrations of the resonance Raman spectrum ( Fig. 6.30 ) . |
| 15 | The pleas for conservative guards might have died away had it not been for the Bristol riots which broke out on 29 October and raged for three days . |
| 16 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 17 | The recipient might become worried if successive letters then come threatening that action will be taken to obtain the price from him . |
| 18 | the role of Ptah might appear to be very definitive , but it offers a particular explanation of existence . |
| 19 | The distinction between the two at this level , however , does not have as much meaning as such labelling might suggest , for there are many species that can use both methods of feeding at different times . |
| 20 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 21 | However , our impression is that committees in the Major Project schools were usually more participatory and less dominated by key senior staff than the examples of these two schools might suggest . |
| 22 | Correspondingly , unpopular schools might expect to contract to a point at which they lose their viability . |
| 23 | A copy of these is included in Appendix 3 , but we may note that they include a statement of aims and objectives , a list of members of the Coordinating Team , a structure for the school 's policy proposal ( including a spending plan ) , some notes on how schools might go about developing their proposal and certain limits within which the money must be spent . |
| 24 | One can see that cluster sampling of a city 's schools might result in a complete set of working-class schools with no middle-class ones at all ; or even completely middle-with no working-class . |
| 25 | The observation that large , predatory species of fish do not usually swim in schools might lead us to suggest that the advantage of schooling is in defence against predators , for large predatory fish are not themselves subject to predation . |
| 26 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 27 | For instance , schools might make one of the four arts subjects compulsory or might institute modular or combined arts courses to cover two or more of the arts subject . |
| 28 | In the technical constrained options , schools might make CDT compulsory or offer a choice between CDT , computer studies or some other technical/vocational subject . |
| 29 | Both the head and the DCSL freely acknowledged that these developments were undertaken in the light of knowledge that a library project existed , and that schools might stand a better chance of securing a grant if they could show evidence of commitment to enhanced library provision . |
| 30 | Moreover in The Tablet ( 16 April 1958 ) Shirley Williams pointed out another advantage that grant-maintained schools might have : Mr Baker has laid down that LEA schools must take in children up to the 1979 limit of numbers , so that as many parents as possible can get their children in , if they choose a particular school . |