Example sentences of "might [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those on windowsills could be too cold at night , for example , while plants which spend the summer in darker corners might prefer a bright spot near to the window . |
| 2 | Third , because there is reason to suspect that the Prime Minister herself might prefer a devaluation to further expensive and , probably , futile attempts to ‘ buck the markets ’ by penalising her heartland constituency of home owners . |
| 3 | Some people covered by the conventional company scheme might prefer a personal pension . |
| 4 | One might prefer a priest or minister and sometimes retired clergy have both the experience and time for this sort of ministry . |
| 5 | Dwarfs are a bit slow so you might prefer a more steady advance with more war machines to pound the stunties before you go in . |
| 6 | But some creditors might prefer a bigger pay-out sooner to financing a risky and expensive test-case . |
| 7 | The country might prefer a tired to an unfamiliar team . |
| 8 | The intensity of their feeling was due not just to fear that the landed interest might suffer but to the affront caused to a governing class centred on London and the Home Counties by the notion that those living in the provinces might prefer a degree of local autonomy . |
| 9 | He might prefer a building society deposit or a National Savings instrument or government bonds or equities . |
| 10 | With wall hangings you can choose a bold , vivid effect that will be the focal point of the room ; or you might prefer a subdued pattern that will tone in with the surroundings . |
| 11 | Or you might prefer a Rennie Mackintosh square to complement your customised , Glasgow-style gown and stationery . |
| 12 | If it is new and unfamiliar , you might experience a sense of physical pleasure . |
| 13 | For example from the relative disaster in automobile manufacturing might arise a new concept of the car that is amazingly successful . |
| 14 | One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations . |
| 15 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 16 | But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought you might fancy a drink , ’ he said , without preamble . |
| 18 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
| 19 | ‘ But do n't start getting any ideas that she might throw a fit of jealousy . |
| 20 | Some small groups within lineages might build a shrine at the burial place of a revered grandfather , call him sidi ( lord ) , and visit the shrine in a group from time to time . |
| 21 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 22 | Once there , he could claim she was dead ; in the West , she might build a new life . |
| 23 | Agriculture campaigner Robin Maynard said : ‘ £31 million over three years might build a few ornamental ponds in the countryside but it is hardly going to generate a major shift in agricultural policy from over-intensive agriculture to sustainable farming practice . ’ |
| 24 | One argument given earlier was that the processor might treat a proper name as signalling the status of main character , and so bring about a relatively high proportion of singular continuations made to this character . |
| 25 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 26 | Even though fewer than three thousand people are now engaged in whaling , directly and indirectly , their loss of support might trigger a loss of confidence among other rural people and jeopardise the LDP 's increasingly frail hold on government ; an office they have held for more than 25 years . |
| 27 | Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i warned that the government spending required to finance Sharon 's scheme would cause a massive expansion in the budget deficit , and might trigger a return to the high inflation of the early 1980s . |
| 28 | In a review Davidson and Bridges pointed out , that an enhanced uptake of gliadin peptides might initiate lysosomal damage , and/ or increased permeation into the mucosal and submucosal space might trigger a cascade of local immunological events . |
| 29 | Only when the Government could prove that disclosure would cause " grave and irreparable injury to the public interest " — details , for example , of troop deployment in wartime or information which might trigger a nuclear war — was a court entitled to stop the presses . |
| 30 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |