Example sentences of "[pron] might [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But oh , if I might have this ability to impart the Holy Spirit ! |
| 2 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 3 | The books were hardly more revealing , seeming to be less of a private collection than the sort of works which might help visiting tourists dedicated to culture . |
| 4 | Therefore , it is important to try to identify the factors which might assist general practitioners to recognize those patients who are at special risk of attempted suicide . |
| 5 | It should not be forgotten , moreover , that Jacobite gentlemen had non-Jacobite relatives , and a favour to the kinsman in difficulties with the law was also a favour to lairds who might have good reason to expect the politician 's help . |
| 6 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 7 | Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount . |
| 8 | You might think many people buy it as a coffee table book , but they do n't . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought you might like some home produce , ’ he said . |
| 10 | You might use such money to buy or lease land , and so increase the holding you had inherited . |
| 11 | As far as the food is concerned , you might consider some formula based on costs since this is widely understood and accepted . |
| 12 | ‘ You might have some difficulty convincing a judge of that . |
| 13 | ‘ I wondered if you might have any papers relating to it . ’ |
| 14 | I opted for bright summertime colours but for autumn you might have brown hedgehogs shuffling through leaves of russet and gold . |
| 15 | A public speaking course may be very useful for your career , and will give you confidence in general , but if you have no spare cash or time for a course because the wedding is approaching , you might try practising public speaking by yourself . |
| 16 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 17 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 18 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 19 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
| 20 | If , then , we define the first aim of college as being to provide an intellectual training in the useful arts , we might leave both schools to continue their debate on what exactly constitutes usefulness in a rapidly-changing economic and social world . |
| 21 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 22 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 23 | Were we opting for a single messy fish ( for which a two foot tank is probably not adequate anyway ) we might use both uplifts to increase the flow throughout the gravel . |
| 24 | With older children we might spend some time discussing this ( perhaps wondering if the giant would ever let us get near enough to open his mouth and clean his teeth for him ) ; with this age group , however , I immediately enthuse about the idea : " Right , that 's really good . |
| 25 | For example , we might have 10000 cattle distributed over 100 farms ; a simple random sample of 200 cattle is likely to involve most of these herds , resulting in a great deal of travelling by the investigators . |
| 26 | It means we might have some money left over after |
| 27 | Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts . |
| 28 | The controversy surrounding the work of Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov , chief corruption investigators with the USSR Procurator General 's office , came to a head on April 18 when the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to refuse a request by the Procuracy that it rescind the mandates of the two men to sit in the Congress of People 's Deputies , so that they might face criminal charges relating to coercion of suspects and witnesses . |
| 29 | Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ? |
| 30 | Should their personal and family relationships remain or become negligible , then they might leave residential care supplied with skills and interests which they did not have before coming into care . |