Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An analysis of the traditional functions of heads might produce the following list : |
| 2 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 3 | The 1986 NACAB AGM overwhelmingly passed a resolution expressing concern that the proposals might change the fundamental character of the CAB service and might prejudice its independence , would cut legal services and reduce freedom of choice of legal service to the poor and would damage working relationships between CABx and legal aid practitioners , other advice agencies and law centres . |
| 4 | Sadly , unscrupulous ski resorts might misuse the new polymer , surreptitiously dusting it on the slopes of their rivals . |
| 5 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 6 | The motivation for our search was to see how signs might support the spoken message in schools , how deaf children could be given the benefit of the happy accident which allowed two modalities to be used simultaneously to present two languages . |
| 7 | First , the banning of imports might land the Labour Government in the future in front of a European court and , secondly of course , if the Labour Government attempted to use their 40 per cent . |
| 8 | For many visitors to the country the stations might present the main opportunity to see apartheid in action . |
| 9 | ‘ In its report published yesterday , the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice said that giving solicitors advocacy rights might improve the overall quality of advocacy in the Crown Court . |
| 10 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 11 | Doi was known to have wanted to field at least 180 JSP candidates but was opposed by many local party organizations on the grounds that having more than one JSP candidate in each of the country 's 130 multi-member constituencies might split the socialist vote and endanger the position of JSP incumbents . |
| 12 | Florida protested that lower river levels might upset the delicate ecology of Apalachicola bay , and sink the area 's oyster industry . |
| 13 | Though enlightened Spaniards might detest the brutal deceit of Napoleon 's seizure of Spain they felt that perhaps he alone could regenerate her . |
| 14 | The enhanced synthesis of PGE 2 seen in patients taking NSAIDs and infected with Helicobacter pylori might mediate the increased dyspapsia that characterises these patients . |
| 15 | Linguists , psychologists and AI workers have theories about what procedures might select the right sense on the basis of sensible rules and reject the wrong one . |
| 16 | Some critics might favour the pragmatic solution of convicting both , to ensure that the guilty party does not escape justice . |
| 17 | What physical processes might explain the dividing line ? |
| 18 | By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing . |
| 19 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 20 | In the long run , moving to fees might provide the simplest solution to the problem of charging structures , and still offer good value for investors . |
| 21 | Someone who knew about these things had told Maman how the perpetual wearing of boots might encourage the proper shape of a girl 's ankles . |
| 22 | One way is that semantic and/or pragmatic factors might affect the syntactic analysis of a clause or sentence ; that is , these different kinds of processing are interactive . |
| 23 | What factors might determine the relative contribution of pre- and postsynaptic mechanisms at a given synapse ? |
| 24 | And while the UK red-and-white breeds might seem the obvious target for NRF salesmen , Prof King believes breeders of black-and-white cattle who shy away from the extreme Holstein type may find the NRF of interest . |
| 25 | Different records might call the same man husbandman and yeoman , but as he progressed , the latter description would be used with increasing consistency . |
| 26 | This , I thought , reflected great credit on him , though others might take the contrary view and criticise the fact that he had not first thought to amass a substantial fortune . |
| 27 | This strategy implies that we should have no preconceived ideas about the research we should support and that we should concentrate on deriving the criteria against which we should assess proposals which , on the balance of probabilities might stand the best chance of success . |
| 28 | Early concerns about the safety of plasma-derived hepatitis B vaccine , especially the concern that infectious agents such as HIV present in donor plasma pools might contaminate the final product , have proven to be unfounded . |
| 29 | It is possible , however , that synthetic chemicals might affect the immune response in some way . |