Example sentences of "[vb pp] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare n't sing — people who 've already booked might cancel their Access — and I do n't know which sketch would compress into the thirty-four seconds I 'll undoubtedly be granted . |
| 2 | The overall picture , however , was by no means so clearcut as the data so far considered might tend to suggest . |
| 3 | Their participation hinged on a variety of factors such as personal situation at the time of receiving the response sheet ; feelings of obligation towards the two agencies involved in the sampling ; perception that being interviewed might help them in the future ; boredom with prison life ; and simple curiosity . |
| 4 | Many of the concepts explained might have appeared self-evident but a thorough grasp of these basic points is essential for understanding later sections of the book which deal with international banking and finance . |
| 5 | ‘ If the condition had not been diagnosed might have discovered he was ill when it was too late to do anything , ’ said . |
| 6 | The grade seems god-given and immutable whereas the grounds on which it was decided might seem only too human and open to dispute . |
| 7 | The point that my hon. Friend has just made might explain why , if there is uncertainty in Scotland , there is also uncertainty among Scottish Liberal party members . |
| 8 | yeah I think that 's probably the best thing and gradually the past you 've missed might start fitting into place as it were you know if you , if you keep up with the present , I think that 's probably the best thing so er and , you know , er I know it 's no comfort but these things take time , you know it takes time to get socialized into something and it takes time to get used to a way of working . |
| 9 | Flying direct from Cairo to Paris and surviving the worst earthquakes that Egypt has ever suffered might sound excellent training for Paris Fashion Week , but proved to be more rigorous than the event strictly called for . |
| 10 | I can not help feeling that any good done might have been cancelled out by oil fires in the Gulf . |
| 11 | With the possibility that keeping a family warm and fed might cost as much as a hundred and fifty pounds extra next year the advice from the experts is to insulate your home … if you can afford to that is . |
| 12 | When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support . |
| 13 | Curtis Price ingeniously suggests that the singing actress for whom this song was written might have left the company by 1693 ; but on the omission of the Plaint he does not comment . |
| 14 | ‘ This is the day I always dreaded might arrive . |
| 15 | He also expressed the fear , however , that the very widespread and intense national feeling which the war had revealed might lead in some circumstances to what he called ‘ social imperialism ’ : the imperialism of a whole people . |
| 16 | The movement I had seen might have been caused by the passage of a bird ; on the other hand it might have been caused by the tigress ; anyway , a little investigation was necessary before proceeding farther on my way . |
| 17 | Firstly , a purely ‘ efficiency ’ view of how organizations develop ignores the possibility that the nature of transactions is not completely exogenous : the development of technology and the kinds of production techniques used might depend on whose interests they promote . |
| 18 | The different target cells and the assay systems used might explain the discrepancy . |
| 19 | er , but , the logical consequence of that is if you did n't have current figures the existing brochure if used might mislead |
| 20 | The most significant of these new features , at least to the monastic chroniclers , was the introduction of Christianity , the overwhelming unifying force of Western Europe , although the number of local problems its followers produced might have made its success seem rather remote . |
| 21 | The sense of excitement that Ruth would have had might have changed a wee bit to almost a little bit of fear . |
| 22 | The first official post after September 3rd confirmed what we were told might happen , we were no more members of the London County Council staff , but had been taken over by the government and were to be known as part of the Emergency Medical Service . |
| 23 | Another concentrated more on non-intellectual factors — such as personality traits — which it was thought might distinguish the highly creative individual . |
| 24 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 25 | Today , the high-powered financiers on whom Michael Douglas 's character was modelled might add that tax is also for wimps . |
| 26 | This would seem to demonstrate not only that studies in different areas or at different times have produced different results , but that a follow through of the cases prosecuted might have found , for example , that Blacks had a different ( possibly higher ) rate of ‘ not guilty ’ pleas , with acquittal rates which might have justified them in not accepting a caution . |
| 27 | The exploration was pursued by statistical analysis relating the amount of manufacturing change ( the phenomenon to be explained ) to characteristics of areas which it was hypothesized might explain the change . |
| 28 | It also said that solicitors employed by large companies should not be allowed to appear in higher courts because the fact that they were employed might stop them from showing impartiality and detachment . |
| 29 | The factors to be noted might include such aspects as ‘ limited mobility ’ , ‘ a clear mind ’ , or ‘ a purpose built flat ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ A rough estimate is that an OFR as proposed might require 10 or more printed pages of information … |