Example sentences of "that [pron] might [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should imagine that you are worried — worried that I might cause some sort of scene , humiliate you in front of this jetsam . ’ |
| 2 | I have waited a long time before writing to you , hoping all the time that I might hear good news of Leslie from Wendy . |
| 3 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 4 | This body : his pride in it , I firmly speculate , is connected to the fear that someone might hurt it-might mutilate or demolish it . |
| 5 | Yet he also hoped that she might retain some weapon , hidden in a hollow tooth perhaps . |
| 6 | With all her heart she was fearing that she might regret this decision . |
| 7 | Dawn was advised that she might obtain more money if she went to court , but she felt that this would be too hard for her emotionally , even though she had no memory of the accident or indeed of the friend who had died . |
| 8 | She had always insisted that he was n't to meet her , that she might come any time . |
| 9 | ‘ If you were , as you were hoping to be , her legal custodian , you would be in a very powerful position — and I have reason to fear that you might abuse that power . ’ |
| 10 | Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain . |
| 11 | ‘ The school raised additional areas that we might find worthwhile exploring . ’ |
| 12 | This seems close to what Williams says , in the above quotation , that rights are to be understood as ‘ assuring expectations ’ of which animals are incapable ( which is not to deny that we might have such expectations concerning the treatment of animals ) : |
| 13 | We seek to rid ourselves of the awful thought that we might have some responsibility for what has happened . |
| 14 | That they might make other choices than the ones we wish them to make ? |
| 15 | Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ? |
| 16 | Again , Thompson and Spencer suggest that intense stimuli habituate only slowly but there is some evidence that they might acquire latent inhibition especially readily , ( Crowell and Anderson 1972 ; Lantz 1976 ; Schnur and Lubow 1976 ) . |
| 17 | The controversy surrounding the work of Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov , chief corruption investigators with the USSR Procurator General 's office , came to a head on April 18 when the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to refuse a request by the Procuracy that it rescind the mandates of the two men to sit in the Congress of People 's Deputies , so that they might face criminal charges relating to coercion of suspects and witnesses . |
| 18 | Their concern is to understand the mechanisms that keep capitalism going and make it resistant to challenges — so that they might strengthen those challenges . |
| 19 | Nora had wanted to take Constance down to Louise in Surrey for her birthday so that it could be a family celebration but she decided to wait until the start of the summer holidays in order that they might spend several weeks there . |
| 20 | Here , adult contributions might be reasonably elaborate , in that they might add new information or extend what the child has said . |
| 21 | Now and again , he could be militant : when Lady Astor gave a speech in which she suggested that ex-servicemen should wear arm bands to warn people that they might have venereal disease , my father shouted her down and called her an ex-chorus girl . |
| 22 | POLICE leaders have put off a warning to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke that they might seek full trade union rights , including the option to strike . |
| 23 | I then zealous to understand I I er , er , erm sought it Statutes , Volume thirty-three nineteen ninety three edition and studied most carefully pages six hundred and seventy-five to six hundred and seventy-seven and there I found an account of what has happened to Sections two and three and also for the first time light was shed upon Section two A. My Lords , I have from time to time ventured to express some doubt as to whether our legislative procedures were as excellent , as I 'm sure Your Lordships would wish them to be and when I recently suggested in the most mild terms to Her Majesty 's Government that they might consider some form of enquiry into our legislative procedures to see whether as they were as high class as they should be , erm I was given a very negative reply the clear influence of which was that the our legislative procedures could not possibly be improved and My Lords I do really think with respect that that is a proposition which is open to doubt . |
| 24 | Wake and Beaumont were restored to their English lands , and this aroused hope that they might receive some support in trying to recover their estates in Scotland as well . |
| 25 | To help children to happily acquire useful skills in order that they might take full advantage of nursery provision and formal schooling when that time begins . |
| 26 | The truth is that they had a narcissistic preoccupation with their own past ; any information they could glean about ‘ savage society ’ was eagerly seized upon in the hope that it might shed further light on their own origins . |
| 27 | Doetsch found that his synthetic analogue prevented the normal development of the viral infection within the cells , prompting him to suggest that it might have therapeutic potential ( Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences , 1981 , vol 78 , p 6699 ) . |
| 28 | Although , therefore , I may ( as indeed I do ) very much doubt whether the effect of the agreement , as a conditional waiver of the interest to which she was by law entitled under the judgment , was really present to the mind of the judgment creditor , still I can not deny that it might have that effect , if capable of being legally enforced . |
| 29 | Each hand drilled hole had to be carefully positioned in order that it might have greatest effect , but it did not matter so much with machine holes . |
| 30 | And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now . |