Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] might [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been decided that the child was too young to understand and as a result she might suffer unpleasant after-effects , rather as people tend to do after eating something which disagrees with them . |
| 2 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 3 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 4 | Six rows forming a curve over 60 stitches is rather abrupt , the same number of rows would suit 120 stitches equally well , in which case you might work 60 stitches at the centre , with the 30 stitches at each end being returned to working position in a series of three sets of ten stitches . |
| 5 | If you winced from the blow you might lose three quarters of an inch or more and it was no use arguing about it . |
| 6 | To aid this process we might introduce structured directories in which documents could be stored according to a common logic for later retrieval or archiving . |
| 7 | ‘ If everyone spoke the truth we might avoid future dangers . ’ |
| 8 | At any moment they might come sweeping back into the cockpit , impaling Trent or Mariana . |
| 9 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 10 | So in a lingering slow fever you might wait several hours for a response to a remedy , whereas in a delirious , high , raging fever one would expect to see changes within ten or fifteen minutes . |
| 11 | But forget any notion you might have that sisterhood land secretaries ) are powerful . |
| 12 | To get a softer saddle you might get other problems . |
| 13 | And , quite apart from demonstrating maturity by dismissing the incident and behaving normally , if she could manage to be polite to this man there was just a chance she might discover some clues to his plans for her family 's business . |
| 14 | At Horkstow we might have another example of such usage — an interpretation supported by the cosmic imagery , the role of the kneeling figures , and the inclusion of a guilloche border which otherwise diminishes the design 's radius . |
| 15 | If you place two Mobs beside each other , then there 's a chance they might attack each other . |
| 16 | He had long ago realised that if he was going to find any clues to the whereabouts of the Way Out , the location or identity of the Key , there was a good chance he might get some ideas from that type of writing . |
| 17 | One month you might get the beans , they might get through , another month , the rice might get through , another month you might get two months of oil . |
| 18 | Well no it 's only seventy pee a roll it might take two rolls but at least it 's , sort of , done . |
| 19 | I opted for bright summertime colours but for autumn you might have brown hedgehogs shuffling through leaves of russet and gold . |
| 20 | The net effect will vary according to the cost conditions within the particular industry under consideration , and within the real world we might expect considerable variation from one industry to another . |
| 21 | There is evidence of good microbiological research emanating from Russia and Poland , but even if the communist countries had accurate figures on disease prevalence they might feel that publication of these would reflect badly on their political systems . |
| 22 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 23 | That way she might have some protection against Jack Lawrence and his hyperactive lips ! |
| 24 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
| 25 | Although she spoke lightly , she realized that out of this fantastic scheme they might evolve some means of making a livelihood , and her spirits rose , so that she forgot her disturbing discovery . |
| 26 | Like others in his position he might get casual jobs carrying bags of maize meal for customers at nearby shops . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the questions themselves , at this stage , will be the main focus , and also at this stage we might allow more questions to be included than are likely to be used at the final stage . |
| 28 | He can play , if Wallace was more inclined to work WITH his partner they might strike more times ( he 's a selfish git ) . |