Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , this command might fail to execute for some other reason . |
| 2 | That is to say , if creativity and psychosis are found to be connected then this is more likely to be revealed , not as a function of the psychotic state itself , but in more subtle ways — for example , through certain modes or forms of thinking and perception which the tendencies to psychosis and creativity might prove to have in common . |
| 3 | But while the FA Cup can still turn dreams into reality , the Second Division might have to settle for one representative at Wembley after tomorrow 's semi-finals . |
| 4 | The wages themselves were good : a mounted archer was paid 6d a day , the wage a skilled craftsman might expect to earn in civilian life , and a man-at-arms received Is a day . |
| 5 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 6 | A further potential conflict of interest arises when the investment funds of securities firms buy the junk bonds of companies to which the firm might wish to act as financial adviser in a takeover or restructuring . |
| 7 | I wonder if by way of introduction , the county might wish to comment on that . |
| 8 | A lot might seem to hang upon this question since the term is highly emotive — suffering is an unpleasant experience , to be avoided at all costs . |
| 9 | In ‘ symbolic ’ MTS , the bird might have to choose between horizontal and vertical as the comparison stimuli , choice of one being rewarded after a red sample , and choice of the other after green . |