Example sentences of "might [vb infin] only " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , a car manufacturer who wished to find out about UK attitudes towards diesel engines might research only those strata from which it already knows that it derives ( say ) 80% of its sales . |
| 2 | The big wind chargers , for example , can deliver a hefty ten amps , while the smaller versions might deliver only 0.1 amp . |
| 3 | He said that government measures on a pro rata basis might affect only 140 unemployed people in each of Scotland 's parliamentary constituencies , even though they have , on average , more than 4,000 out of work . |
| 4 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 5 | But if you read it in the way the UK does , you might catch only five or ten projects a year . ’ |
| 6 | We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis . |
| 7 | But obviously we know that interviewers simply given the task of producing say 20 interviews might choose only women of a fairly young age-group and we know this is not representative of the population . |
| 8 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 9 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 10 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 11 | Even the Prime Minister , in her first year as a tenant in No. 10 Downing Street , might score only 18 out of 31 — again rather a dubious credit risk on this rating system . |
| 12 | Neuronal membrane-bound forms might function only in close association with target Schwann cells or may be proteolytically clipped and released . |
| 13 | She might not be able to produce the required number of sons or she might produce only daughters or she might even be childless . |
| 14 | In other instances this form of bargaining structure might prevail only as a second-best option because of the union 's inability to organise the total product market — a necessary condition for the enforcement of industry-wide bargaining . |
| 15 | Every infantry battalion has some twenty chefs led by a Warrant Officer , Whilst a smaller training unit might have only eleven chefs , led by a Staff Sergeant . |
| 16 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 17 | Aware that he might have only one chance , and uncertain whether his support was sufficiently strong to withstand accusations of breaking his word and of disloyalty , he kept his options open by writing a public letter to his constituency party association ( a traditional device for signalling dissent ) in which he was highly critical of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership style and her stance on Europe . |
| 18 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 19 | He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago . |
| 20 | However , it is by no means certain that either of the established parties would agree to change since they would be bidding away long-term electoral advantage in return for a short-term in office in a coalition government in which they might have only limited power . |
| 21 | ‘ Many of our customers could not understand why we might have only one style of nightdress or long-sleeved blouse , but it was because Laura was trying to evolve the most perfect example of that particular item and believed it was more important to have one good example of each than several skirts and dresses , ’ Moira explains . |
| 22 | You can also get the ones when , a lot of them , like some companies if they , depending how much business they 've got , some companies actually think that , they might have only got fifty pound a week , a hundred pound a week , as they have n't got young businesses , do you get me ? |
| 23 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 24 | because they might have only a few , whereas the others have got thousands on them . |
| 25 | The patient 's condition might change only slowly , as he can go on recovering over several years . |
| 26 | ‘ Full Employment ’ might mean only one alternative job assignment , and that one in Denver , but stoic IBMers went where they were sent , and did what was needed . |
| 27 | And it may have been pertinent that in the major games ( and Bay of Plenty and Manawatu might rank only slightly below the status ) the home sides tended to dominate the last quarter of each game . |
| 28 | Increasing their market share domestically might serve only to increase political resentment . |
| 29 | South African government sources indicated , however , that they might concede only some form of joint administration of the Walvis Bay enclave , which included the only deep-water port on Namibia 's coast . |
| 30 | The grade seems god-given and immutable whereas the grounds on which it was decided might seem only too human and open to dispute . |