Example sentences of "but might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course , I 'll never talk to you again if you catch the big feller , but might make a fun afternoon . |
| 2 | Of the 146 patients referred for endoscopic treatment of choledocholithiasis the overall success rate for clearing the common bile duct stones was 72.6% which is somewhat lower than other reported series but might reflect the selection of patients to a specialised centre . |
| 3 | But might ignite . |
| 4 | The way some people look at it is , why should I let you write a book that wo n't do me any good but might do me some harm . |
| 5 | Mr Purves said he intends retiring next year , but might stay longer if asked to by the board . |
| 6 | Satin Lover , unbeaten in six starts over timber , seems sure to make the frame , but might prefer better ground , and is reluctantly passed over . |
| 7 | I think everyone would be surprised at these figures but might think : ‘ OK , I suppose these migrants are needed to fuel the economic health of Welsh industry , and we must tolerate the environmental cost of housing them . ’ |
| 8 | Such a situation will be rare , but might arise if , say , the exchange required all floor traders to have their mnemonics printed on their trading cards , failed to accept delivery of the cards by the member to the trading floor , and then brought an action for breach of the original requirement . |
| 9 | Kinship networks were loose but might extend far across the social scale of the village , and though Terling was riddled with petty conflicts , good neighbourliness was regarded as a virtue and a crucial social bond . |
| 10 | In the opening pages of the book I referred to the pragmademic gap that seems to exist between pragmatists who have not had the benefit of a formal systems education , but might wish to make use of soft systems ideas , and those who have developed and applied these ideas at a more academic level . |
| 11 | The typical accounts of a business would largely be proprietary-based but might include entity influences . |
| 12 | The parameters by which one such unit was distinguished from another varied according to the occasion but might include skin colour , stature , style of dress , morality , intelligence , language , religion , geographical locality and mode of subsistence , but there was always a clear presumption that the different kinds of criteria physical , cultural , linguistic , regional , institutional , economic — were all coincident . |
| 13 | I am thinking here of topics which still reflect our interests but might include more on , say , conservation , microscopy , taxonomic computing , and other new areas we might be moving towards . |
| 14 | It may refer to uncertificated achievements but might include those which have been certificated , especially where the certification does not record the precise nature of the achievement , or was acquired in a different/unrelated context . |
| 15 | This fact is consonant , to say the least , with the long philosophical dispute about causation and time , including the idea that causes might not only be simultaneous with their effects but might come after their effects . |
| 16 | We return to some of these links in later chapters , but might note here , for example , the extent to which ethology comes round full circle to reach conclusions very similar to contemporary radical feminist analysis . |
| 17 | Plausibly sexual behaviour between these males not only relieves this deprivation but might maintain higher testosterone levels in the participants than would otherwise be the case . |
| 18 | A magnum makes a lot of noise and a terrifying big hole , but might hit anywhere . |
| 19 | Indemnity policies protect the lender , not the borrower , so if you failed to keep up mortgage payments and the house had to be sold for less than your outstanding debt , the insurance company would pay the lender the difference , but might sue you for that amount ! |
| 20 | Thomas did n't look immediately cheered , but might relay some of that , Nicholas thought , where it would help matters . |
| 21 | He wrote this long four-movement piece in 1931 for the clarinettist of the day , Frederick Thurston , but might have had in mind his predecessor by 40 years , Richard Muhlfeld , so mellifluously Brahmsian is the style of writing . |
| 22 | ‘ She is very much like Ashayer , but might have a little more speed . ’ |
| 23 | The minister 's conversations with his Iranian opposite number , Ali Akhbar Velayati , led the Iranian to say that he thought Iraq was indeed ready to withdraw from Kuwait but might have conditions . |
| 24 | I assumed that this was more than an architectural whim , but might have some connection with conservation of land in this predominantly agricultural country . |
| 25 | She had not colluded , but might have seemed to . |
| 26 | ‘ It is a bad business , but might have been much worse . ’ |
| 27 | Many observers believe that this outcome would not have happened if BA had not been privatised as such a dominant carrier in the UK , but others argue that this claim is irrelevant and that world competition is what matters ; BA and BCal were both relatively small on the world stage , but might have been able to compete effectively in a merged form . |
| 28 | ‘ They wo n't have regular fashion articles , but might have something on the political significance of hemlines . ’ |
| 29 | Thus the name " Shakespeare " rigidly refers to Shakespeare , irrespective of whether we happen to be talking about what Shakespeare did or wrote , or did not do or write but might have done or written , i.e. about his actual or merely possible attributes . |
| 30 | A sense of her own importance , which survived despite the sadnesses of her adult life and prompted her to tell her own story at such length , is summed up in her quotation of a relative 's comment on her autobiography , ‘ it was not writ as if a weak woman might have done it , but might have become a divine . ’ |