Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] might [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peering around for a locker where she might find some clothes , she stood . |
| 2 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 3 | Such routes should increase in density towards the town centre , where they might have weather-protection canopies and be served by what Ramsay has called ‘ pedestrian service points ’ . |
| 4 | Or they might shelter piratical degenerates who had become creatures of Chaos . |
| 5 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 6 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 7 | Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain . |
| 8 | This seems close to what Williams says , in the above quotation , that rights are to be understood as ‘ assuring expectations ’ of which animals are incapable ( which is not to deny that we might have such expectations concerning the treatment of animals ) : |
| 9 | That they might make other choices than the ones we wish them to make ? |
| 10 | Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Their concern is to understand the mechanisms that keep capitalism going and make it resistant to challenges — so that they might strengthen those challenges . |
| 13 | Nora had wanted to take Constance down to Louise in Surrey for her birthday so that it could be a family celebration but she decided to wait until the start of the summer holidays in order that they might spend several weeks there . |
| 14 | Although it was being carried out at Winnington , home of ICI 's Alkali Division , it was being sponsored in part by the company 's dyestuffs interests , in the hope that it might provide new routes to organic chemicals used as intermediates . |
| 15 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 16 | A week later , magistrates gave him bail , despite police fears that he might commit further offences . |
| 17 | He said that he might acquire new obligations . |
| 18 | The novelty of touring America is wearing off , and you might spend 24 hours in the bus . |
| 19 | ‘ I wondered if you might have any papers relating to it . ’ |
| 20 | In this sense , animals ( and we might add primitive peoples and even the environment ) are sui generis ; they are perfect of their kind . |
| 21 | Keep him laughing and he might have second thoughts about eating you ! |
| 22 | Nobody could deny Mr Gummer this small triumph , but he might make more friends if he did n't always insist on making such a meal of it . |
| 23 | But he might have some ideas . ’ |
| 24 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 25 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 26 | He further argued , or at least implied , that to permit a ‘ non-catholic ’ to adopt children would be wrong because it might put such children 's eternal salvation in jeopardy ( Whyte 1980 : 188–9 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Later on , the word ‘ magic ’ replaces the accurate translation ‘ black magic ’ , presumably because it might offend racial sensibilities . |
| 28 | OSF because it might get additional royalties for its technologies , particularly the Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) . |
| 29 | While one might expect eventual decisions to be made purely on the merits of the case , earlier evidence indicates that some objections are more likely to succeed in influencing decision-makers than others . |
| 30 | Whilst you might use these behaviours and through them create an impression of being genuine , it will , of course , quickly be destroyed unless you do what you say you will do . |