Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 2 | Astute readers will note that our pages look different this week ; and those who know about journal redesign might expect to see a trickle of editorial blood emerging from The Lancet 's front door . |
| 3 | Attempts to avoid altered glycaemic control , which is a confounding variable , during the study might have masked a tendency for increased hypoglycaemia with human insulin , but since insulin doses did not change throughout the study this is also unlikely . |
| 4 | The restriction of conspiracy might seem to put the plaintiff at a disadvantage if the unlawful means is a tort against a third party or the breach of a contract to which the defendant is not a party but this is not necessarily so , for the defendant 's procurement of the commission of the tort may again expose him to liability as a joint tortfeasor , and as to a breach of contract he may anyway have committed the substantive tort of interference with an existing contract . |
| 5 | Apparently fearing that an increasingly angry president might try to disband the legislature , deputies also voted to continue their session into a fourth day today , ‘ to watch attentively that the executive observes the constitution ’ , in the words of the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov . |
| 6 | One sestertius might have helped the visitor pay his way during the time of Emperor Antonius Pius . |
| 7 | One sestertius might have helped the visitor pay his way during the time of Emperor Antonius Pius . |
| 8 | A first-rate biography might have reminded the art world of his unique eloquence . |
| 9 | Whereas a horseman might manage to plough an acre a day , a tractor driver might now manage up to forty . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought the notary might have backdated an agreement , but of course he wo n't . ’ |
| 11 | A second way in which Lakatos 's methodology could conceivably be supported is as follows : The methodology might serve to identify a programme that received strong support from the scientific community but which does not conform to the methodology of research programmes , and this identification might subsequently lead to the novel discovery of some external cause , such as the intervention of some government or industrial monopoly . |
| 12 | Even Phyllis 's racial prejudice might have had a touch of the humorous about it , if it were n't so offensive and pathetic . |
| 13 | If all the people who deregistered had stayed and had voted Labour , Labour might have won the seat . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the fact that some patients had already failed to respond to tricyclics before entering the trial might have introduced a bias against this class of drugs . |
| 15 | With 20 minutes gone , his debut might have entered the dream category but for a fingertip save from Andy Goram . |
| 16 | If , for example , a survey showed that 80% of people in an area were concerned about their health and their diet , the retailer might consider stocking a line of health foods and ‘ natural ’ products . |
| 17 | Naturally , losing an order is a serious matter , but with job production it normally means waiting a short period before being asked to quote again for a different job , whereas with flow production it might be two years before the model is changed and the opportunity is provided to quote again ( by which time the buyer might have forgotten the existence of the salesperson ! ) . |
| 18 | In cases falling within this protected class , security given by the surety would , in certain circumstances , be unenforceable notwithstanding that the creditor might have had no knowledge of and not have been responsible for the vitiating feature of the transaction . |
| 19 | A less cunning photographer might have felt the urge to place a single figure , perhaps close to the columns , to give life and scale . |
| 20 | A shallow level of analysis would involve the analysis of the input for its physical details , such as lines , angles , and brightness of physical stimuli , whereas a deep level might involve finding a word which is associated with the input word . |
| 21 | Tess also felt guilty that her presence might have influenced the farmer . |
| 22 | Another scientist might have proposed a modification in the optical theory governing the operation of the telescopes used in the investigation . |
| 23 | Other knitters with this machine might like to take the precaution of buying a couple of clamps so that the same thing can not happen to them . |
| 24 | She was thinking that the girl might have lacked an umbilicus ; might have come straight from the hand of God , who having finished making the mountains had picked a bit of clay from under his thumbnail and fashioned just one more sort of person , perhaps as an experiment . |
| 25 | Had they contested the case , a jury with more awareness of contemporary social stresses than the judge might have returned a verdict of not guilty to national applause . |
| 26 | Increasingly , the teaching staff participate fully , but the governors and senior management might consider broadening the process to include non-teaching staff and the parents who , after all , are the clients . |
| 27 | A threat of proceedings for a pecuniary penalty does not make a payment made thereafter involuntary ; for the payer might have defended the proceedings and relied upon the unlawfulness of the demand : William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King , 101 L.T. 741 and Werrin v. The Commonwealth ( 1938 ) 59 C.L.R. 150 , 158–159 . |
| 28 | In Europe such abruptness might have raised an eyebrow or two , but in Indonesia it was stunningly rude . |
| 29 | There were fears that the Liverpool boss might have to quit the game when he went into hospital last April for triple heart by-pass surgery . |
| 30 | Typically , a software developer might want to write a word processing program which will be compatible with another company 's spreadsheet program so that data and files can be passed between the two programs . |