Example sentences of "[noun] might [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astute readers will note that our pages look different this week ; and those who know about journal redesign might expect to see a trickle of editorial blood emerging from The Lancet 's front door . |
| 2 | A second way in which Lakatos 's methodology could conceivably be supported is as follows : The methodology might serve to identify a programme that received strong support from the scientific community but which does not conform to the methodology of research programmes , and this identification might subsequently lead to the novel discovery of some external cause , such as the intervention of some government or industrial monopoly . |
| 3 | Typically , a software developer might want to write a word processing program which will be compatible with another company 's spreadsheet program so that data and files can be passed between the two programs . |
| 4 | In the private sector a greater incentive might exist to show a need for higher fees to match high levels of dependency . |
| 5 | Residence Elena has a small lake where guests might like to take a swim , except on Thursdays , Saturdays and Sundays when they are invited to use the lake for a little fishing . |
| 6 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 7 | For example the question ‘ Would you like to become a doctor and work in a hospital ? ’ is a double question because the respondent might like to become a doctor , but not work in a hospital . |
| 8 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |
| 9 | He is also trying to finish a commerce degree at university , but the remarkable series of events which has seen South Africa catapulted into the cricketing limelight means that studies might have to take a back seat for at least 1992 . |
| 10 | Natural signs and social symbols might seem to form a continuum , marked by the presence of convention at the social end but always involving natural expression too . |
| 11 | One of the main recommendations from the Governors was that governing bodies might wish to present a case for linking participation in regional and national schools . |
| 12 | But are there other circumstances , perhaps less predictable , in which an adult might need to have a home with relatives , at least on a temporary basis ? |
| 13 | A man might hope to support a wife and fairly large family on a pound a week ; some managed on ten shillings ( 50 p ) a week . |
| 14 | Of how a man might contrive to open a cylinder of phetam , and perhaps set us up as a God-King himself , on a more salubrious world … |
| 15 | The date was first fixed as the 13th July , in International Eisteddfod week , as I thought members might like to take a look at the eisteddfod after a ride on the train . |
| 16 | Intergenerational mobility : that is , the son or daughter has a different social position ( higher or lower ) than that of the parents ( for example , a miner 's daughter might train to become a teacher ) . |
| 17 | Radio might help to instil a feeling of national glory and pride , even if the substance did not amount to much as yet . |
| 18 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 19 | The full-strength argument is that there are often substantial costs to employing someone which mean that a company might choose to employ a machine rather than a person even if that person 's wages cost them nothing . |
| 20 | For greater mobility , the patient might learn to ride a tricycle or a bicycle with stabilizers , so that he can travel further and carry loads . |