Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oldest book source that Highlanders might refer to for plant lore is probably the Bible . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Correspondingly , unpopular schools might expect to contract to a point at which they lose their viability . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the technical constrained options , schools might make CDT compulsory or offer a choice between CDT , computer studies or some other technical/vocational subject . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the meantime , he suggested local authorities and individual schools might introduce their own schemes . |
| 14 | This is an easy way of raising money , and appeal organisers are hoping other schools might adopt it on their behalf . |
| 15 | Clearly , an LEA has an obligation in the words of a recent Audit Commission report ( Audit Commission 1989a ) to ‘ articulate a vision of what the education service is trying to achieve ’ and to ‘ support schools and help them to fulfil this vision ’ , but it could be argued that the most appropriate focus for such a vision , necessarily generalized because of the range of institutional contexts and pupil needs involved , should be on identifying broad goals and the kinds of learning which schools might seek to promote . |
| 16 | For several reasons , it might also have been expected , and will be seen later to have been the case , that some of the younger teachers in the higher status selective schools might become allies of those in the universities beginning to press for change . |
| 17 | In the last two chapters , Chapters 8 and 9 , we will finally come to the question of the directions in which teacher-supported change to schools might proceed . |
| 18 | On Jan. 19 , a further report in the UK press quoted " a senior US State Department official " and other experts to the effect that satellite pictures might have been misinterpreted and that the plant might indeed be intended for merely civilian uses . |
| 19 | Not one of them has enjoyed internal political loyalty and they have therefore lacked the strength or authority to transact formal negotiations in which controversial concessions might have to be made . |
| 20 | On the rare occasions when French and Vietminh met and when local concessions might have helped at least to improve the atmosphere — for example the release of hostages taken by Vietminh — the Vietminh for their part denied all knowledge that any had been taken while violent incidents were either attributed to the forces outwith their control , which may well have been true , or else to the anger of the people which , again , may have been true but did not improve matters . |
| 21 | Londoners discovered that despite the dire predictions , the Scots might look a bit terrifying , but they were more interested in the goings-on at Wembley . |
| 22 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 23 | It proved an exhausting process , and even when accomplished there were fears that the Scots might attack during the night . |
| 24 | With memories of the student ‘ unrest ’ of the late sixties still part of the living past , Sir Keith Joseph was able to impose a stern monetary discipline upon British higher education with the prospect , many feared , that some universities and polytechnics might disappear entirely . |
| 25 | In dry parts of the world , such as Australia , forest and bush fires are an important natural hazard and some attention has been given to the ways in which GIS might help examine their potential impacts . |
| 26 | More important , the poorer performance from low-octane cars might reduce sales and could lead to a renewed onslaught by the Japanese car firms , which have a head 's start in the production of low-octane cars , on the British market . |
| 27 | Do you think that that is a hint that perhaps the high litre cars — that is the four litre efforts and er the company cars might get taxed at the next budget round ? |
| 28 | More units might have been expected to have explored the extra income potential of specialised products . |
| 29 | A demonstration was held outside the hospital after it was first suggested the units might close , but now the protestors must wait until next year to see what happens . |
| 30 | This therefore provides a rationale for examining whether and why firm organizations might differ in efficiency , through examining constraints on the organization . |