Example sentences of "might [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The experience of watching my late husband 's 16-year fight against the degenerative effects of Parkinson 's disease ( one of those conditions which might one day benefit from embryo research ) causes me to write this letter in the hope that all who take part in the debates will recognise and confound these tactics of the anti-abortion pressure groups , quite rightly described by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service as ‘ an attempt to hijack government legislation ’ . |
| 2 | JACQUES DELORS , President of the European Commission , told West Germany that its hopes for reunification would best be served by working for a more federal Community , implying that this might one day embrace East Germany . |
| 3 | Mr De Haan said the original reason for going public was his father 's concern that as a private company , with no market in its shares , the family might one day be faced with the prospect of having to sell the entire business to meet death duties . |
| 4 | Some people in Serbia suspect that Slobo , an impulsive man , might one day decide to go it alone . |
| 5 | This might one day play a powerful role in the reaction against the president . |
| 6 | With German unification fresh in the memories of local people , some fear that the ‘ eastern territories ’ might one day revert to Germany as well . |
| 7 | Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too . |
| 8 | The script was left open by straw-clutching executives at Grundy TV who were still clinging vainly to the hope that their biggest audience puller might one day return . |
| 9 | Davies , 23 , a nimble midfield player , might one day be able to tell his grandchildren of a winning double Blue . |
| 10 | Still , however , I cherished the fantasy that I might one day have a son who would fulfil that dream , and always he had Leslie 's eyes , dark , with soft expressive light . |
| 11 | The appointment of court organist there was finally offered to Mozart , with the indication that he might one day become Kapellmeister . |
| 12 | The troops might be raw , Piatakov might be an ultra-Leftist , but the ship had to be built with the timbers that were available , not some hypothetical timbers that might one day become available . |
| 13 | The business might one day be sold off , wound up or nationalised by the host government . |
| 14 | Otherwise the London Boroughs are now multipurpose authorities , reviving hopes amongst some observers that the large towns of England and Wales might one day regain their ‘ county borough ’ status , leaving the county councils free to pursue their former traditional , more rural , role in collaboration with the small parish , town and community councils . |
| 15 | I made no notes of these visits to Out Patients , for at the time I had no idea that I might one day feel my experience with cancer sufficiently interesting to write about . |
| 16 | Quite obviously , there is a good deal of , as yet , classified technology which might one day be available for all sorts of hazard mitigation purposes . |
| 17 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 18 | The second reason was that , even were she to have a successful pregnancy and birth , she was terrified that she might one day be carrying her child in her arms when she fainted and might then drop or hurt the child in some way . |
| 19 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 20 | But the thought that a credit card company — or some sleazy store — might one day reveal the contents of my shopping bag to the nation ( or , more particularly , to my husband ) fills me with a very real dread . |
| 21 | He failed to allow for the fact that Lucasta Redburn could not bear to throw away anything that might one day come in useful . |
| 22 | He had learned also that if there were a continuing nightmare in Israel then it was that an Arab enemy might one day possess the capability to strike at the Jewish heartland with nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | Darwin himself had little sympathy for these ideas and not much , personally , for Spencer , though he did once say — I quote Burrow ( p. 182 ) — ‘ in a moment of enthusiasm … that Spencer 's Principles of Biology made him feel that he ‘ is about a dozen times my superior ’ , and thought that Spencer might one day be regarded as the equal of Descartes and Leibniz , rather spoiling the effect by adding , ‘ about whom , however , I know very little ’ ’ . |
| 24 | WRITERS of science fiction love the idea that computers might one day have souls . |
| 25 | The company even acknowledges that its software might one day be used to cluster workstations that were all alien , with no Alpha-based ones in there . |
| 26 | They argued that scientific progress and understanding could not be conceived of as a static process ; with the advance of research into passive smoking , different conclusions might one day become apparent . |
| 27 | Had he suspected , when he left the Venetian state , that his Copernicanism might one day bring him into confrontation with papal authority , he might have thought twice before leaving a region in which dissident scholars could flourish and where printers , for commercial reasons , were already disobeying papal rules . |
| 28 | As the one who might one day step into his father 's shoes he was also the one who stood most in his father 's shadow . |
| 29 | Unquestionably , if either Richard or John had married her , it would have added plausibility to Philip 's claim that this vital territory was his sister 's marriage portion and , as such , might one day be returned to France . |
| 30 | Executives told them to " fuck off " and got on with dreaming how DPR might one day set up " Down Under " , where various bucket shops operated . |