Example sentences of "might [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | But even the lowliest appointment might oblige a freeholder who in turn desired to serve some obscure relative or other dependent , while in those appointments which demanded legal training , young advocates could establish their reputation as jurists , which in turn might attract business to their law practices in Edinburgh . |
| 32 | So a survey of an area such as a city might raise genuine problems of getting about to see people , and cluster sampling might sample a number of polling districts and concentrate the interviews in them to the complete exclusion of all the other polling districts . |
| 33 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 34 | With a bit of luck Eleanor might lend a hand . |
| 35 | Indeed , urging people not to pay their rates to the East End Water Company , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 28 August 1898 ) conjured with the circumstances under which , in the struggle against what it called ‘ Horrible London ’ , even the horrible Hooligans might lend a hand : |
| 36 | Limiting the studies included to those that use the same measure of quality of life might lend a table some face validity . |
| 37 | The appropriate policies that might influence a decision-maker are broadly similar in the two contexts . |
| 38 | What factors might influence a trend towards one or more of the digital platforms ? |
| 39 | On the other hand , a high-class interior designer would be far more likely to regard quality as a goal that could not be compromised , and might regard a single dissatisfied customer as a threat to future business . |
| 40 | In Wales for example where HSU 3 ( History Study Unit ( History Curriculum , England ) ) consists of the core unit " Early peoples , Celts and Romans " , on a museum visit or using material from a museum loan collection , the class might compare a flint scraper and the remnants of an iron knife blade , and look at the importance of the discovery of metals , and the differences it has made to people 's lives . |
| 41 | A whale might swallow a man , yes , we can allow that as plausible ; but once inside he could not possibly live . |
| 42 | She worried that Chris might fall and break his leg , that Annie might swallow a stone and have to go to hospital , that Alan might give himself an ulcer through working too hard . |
| 43 | Some of their leaders , however , indulged in richer displays : in moments of leisure or on a Day of Truce a chieftain might sport a satin doublet or gold-buttoned jerkin , satin hose , and velvet breeches and cloak . |
| 44 | Any curtailment of such imports might damage a country 's export potential and economic development . |
| 45 | Whilst knitting your designs you might spare a thought for Giant Pandas now very much an endangered species . |
| 46 | I 'll want you to think about that tonight , I 'm gon na hand out a few sheets that might might explain a little bit of synergy erm I believe synergy this is my this is more of a sort of worldly view . |
| 47 | In the latter part of the chapter we shall consider , at a deeper level , how accounting analyses might facilitate a cost-leadership strategy . |
| 48 | Since aggressive animals often have higher testosterone levels than normal this might aid a male in persisting in attacks on harem males and thereby in gaining a harem . |
| 49 | I would like to suggest , however , that you might tread a little more carefully in certain places . ’ |
| 50 | I was afraid I might hurt a child the way I 'd been hurt . |
| 51 | But that would be a kind of failure , having summoned up the courage to go this far , to take this step ; and though he had warned her that it might hurt a little , she trusted him : he was so gentle , so mature . |
| 52 | The others are less fierce , but still prohibit any relationship that might affect a lawyer 's ability to handle a case properly . |
| 53 | Theorists say that a stockmarket is ‘ efficient ’ if prices take account of all information that is available that might affect a firm 's future cash flow . |
| 54 | That is welcome , as is a second proposal to help supervisors measure how movements in interest rates might affect a bank 's financial strength . |
| 55 | Here is an example of how the changes might affect a small business , with a 15% phased increase each year . |
| 56 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 57 | ‘ The way this has been done , you might think a god was to blame . |
| 58 | Mark market might think a backlash they , they 'd better look for himself to remind himself there 's no backlash in Highfield . |
| 59 | Even an A-level student might want a little more in the way of interpretation . |
| 60 | You never know , some customer might want a snap of Murder Cay one day . ’ |