Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] [pron] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battle and a whole belt of Wealden parishes produced no response at all ; since the data were collected by the local parish clergy , the low level of response is hardly surprising , farmers as a rule having a dim view of requests for information which might lead to a rise in taxes or tithes . |
| 2 | Other " get out clauses " included requests for information which might involve the supply of " unfinished documents " . |
| 3 | They were understandably concerned to steer a middle course between over-confidence which might lead to an excessive number of candidates and realism which might have a restrictive effect . |
| 4 | You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present . |
| 5 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 6 | Of all the varieties of patronage at the disposal of Scottish politicians , the most useful were those connected with taxation , for , quite apart from the undeniable opportunities for profit which might accrue to an official charged with the collection of public revenues , through his possession of such monies between the time of collection and the time of accounting for the receipts , the ability to increase or moderate one 's zeal was in itself a valuable asset for officers who were themselves often intimately involved in the political and social life of their communities . |
| 7 | He rightly argues that the best way to find out what part of the brain does is to start out with very general questions about the sorts of thing it might do and then work through to more specific questions . |
| 8 | On the other hand ( see page 46 ) reasoning with children involves giving them a great deal of attention which might reinforce and maintain , if not increase , the quarrelsomeness . |
| 9 | However , his relations with his tenants were never happy , because while Lowther believed his town and harbour should be developed largely at the expense of the inhabitants , with modest financial encouragement from himself , he could never bring himself to make those concessions of self-government which might have persuaded his tenants to co-operate . |
| 10 | Following the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , the haulier should be aware of some of the heads of claim which might arise when such a terrible incident occurs . |
| 11 | However , it is worth considering the less easily defined aspects of analysis which might contribute to the validity of results . |
| 12 | ‘ So , how about if I agree that I 'm unprincipled , absolutely despicable , and thoroughly reprehensible — or , indeed , any other term of abuse you might care to use ? |
| 13 | Maybe if I was really hard up with no career or opportunities in life I might feel differently . |
| 14 | When Mr Steen rang on Friday afternoon to say he was n't certain whether or not he was returning to London at the weekend , she had checked the petrol in the car in case he might want it . |
| 15 | He slapped her , swiftly and casually , his hand coming back to cover her mouth in case she might cry out . |
| 16 | The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross . |
| 17 | In fact the population of Great Britain only increased by about four millions during the inter-war years , about half the level of growth which might have been expected had the rate of growth of the late nineteenth century continued . |
| 18 | With a bit of luck you might go down this time . |
| 19 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 20 | Let us now return to consider the kind of assistance one might expect from computers in relation to the particular areas of personnel work referred to earlier . |
| 21 | Yes , it 's rather the kind of correspondence one might expect Tod Friendly to go in for : unvarying , humourless and one-way , like junk mail . |
| 22 | I did n't know what kind of play she might have been pulling . |
| 23 | But now her outfit , although loose and flowing , was slightly closer to the kind of garment you might expect in SW19 . |
| 24 | He looked , Toby thought , the kind of boy who might play the passive role in some bent porno film — and , indeed , were he asked , Hilary Frome would certainly have been willing . |
| 25 | It could , indeed , help to establish the kind of ethos which might make recourse to legal remedies unnecessary . |
| 26 | She could picture Pete reading the letter on the end of a hard bed covered with a scratchy red blanket , the kind of bed you might find in a hospital , or in the army . |
| 27 | It 's the kind of music you might have danced to in the 1600s . |
| 28 | ‘ I am not going to get into what kind of therapy she might find herself in , but clearly she would need all the help she could get from whatever source was available . |
| 29 | We might therefore wonder whether its appearance in Foucault , far from being the result of theoretical ineptitude , does not involve simulacra , or ghostly bad copies , similarly designed to undermine the claims of theoretical mastery , and to produce in his texts surface-effects of the kind of heterogeneity we might expect from someone who had contested the unifying function of ‘ the author ’ . |
| 30 | Everything is suddenly in flux ; there are the physical changes — starting periods , changing shape and size , wondering what kind of figure we might have — and there are the changes of the outside world towards us : one day we might walk down the street and feel like a little girl ; the next , almost overnight , it seems impossible to avoid the glances , remarks and acknowledgement that we are somehow , in our mother 's words , ‘ becoming a woman ’ . |