Example sentences of "[noun sg] might have a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a timely reminder that her own garden needed attention and in any case , mechanical tasks like digging and muck-spreading might have a therapeutic effect on her emotional system . |
| 2 | The fact that such monitoring was taking place might have a salutary effect on the behaviour of those responsible for selecting medical staff . |
| 3 | While they could point to the fact that the town might have a poor bus system , could have better public amenities and that in winter it was dull , they could also point to the good health they enjoyed compared to when they lived in a large industrial city . |
| 4 | In the 1960s a series of papers suggested that dementia sufferers who were " misplaced " in the wrong type of facility might have a poorer outcome . |
| 5 | Being left alone for a while might have a calming effect . |
| 6 | Yes , but your colleague has also made the point that the constitution might have a blocking mechanism so that people , both sides , could be satisfied , was n't it . |
| 7 | Telephone calls for the library might have a direct line so that these calls are not put down to Canterbury and then transferred again . |
| 8 | The Collector suspected that the Bard 's success in this respect might have a great deal to do with the ballistic advantages stemming from his baldness . |
| 9 | The possibility that a word might have a different meaning in another context threatens to relativize the ‘ master metaphor ’ on which this society is grounded . |
| 10 | Based on papers submitted for review in camera , Judge Platt felt the government might have a valid claim that the subpoenaed documents were protected from discovery by the state secrets privilege , but counsel for the government seemed unwilling to accept the suggestion . |
| 11 | But there are those in England , too , who also fail to see that participation in drama has two faces , or rather , a face and a mask : the ‘ game ’ of drama where a group of participants share a significant experience , and a theatrical performance where a group of actors present the drama so that an audience might have a significant experience . |
| 12 | In Nigeria , so I had heard , people gave their houses numbers for aesthetic reasons , because a certain number might have a distinguished ring to it . |
| 13 | An executive might have a limited opportunity to see for himself/herself conditions in a foreign country . |
| 14 | Plainly , the figures are impressive but they fall far short of the early hopes that computing might have a pervasive influence on school education . |
| 15 | Here the individual might have a legitimate expectation that the licence would be renewed . |
| 16 | If we are asking when the issue of who were England 's legitimate rulers was resolved , then the answer can clearly not be 1660 or 1688 ; 1715 , with the failure of the Jacobite rebellion might have a strong claim , although there are some scholars who would maintain that Jacobitism continued to be a significant threat thereafter , so that the succession did not finally disappear as a political issue until after the failure of the rebellion in 1745 . |