Example sentences of "might [adv] [vb infin] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him . |
| 2 | We might finally note that the court is able to rely as an aid to discovering intention on the proposition that what no reasonable board could have believed to be beneficial to the company , the actual board could not have believed either , or , in other words , that where the means adopted could not on any reasonable view lead to the end of benefiting the company , the directors could not have been motivated by a desire to achieve that end . |
| 3 | With Pearl in mind , one might easily conclude that the stretch between the two rivers is a sort of ‘ earthly paradise ’ for Frodo and the others , though one still capable of violation and invasion from the outside world . |
| 4 | Now I have never ‘ done ’ advertising , on the simple , self-interested principle that if television viewers knew I could be paid to recommend biscuits , however vicariously , they might reasonably conclude that the Conservative , Labour or Liberal Democrat parties also come up with occasional help with my household expenses . |
| 5 | And although a green glow that is weaker than it ought to be might mean that some of the cells in the area are turning malignant , it might also mean that the operator has the end of the bronchoscope too far from the target , or pointing at an awkward angle . |
| 6 | Purists might also check that the lock-stitch at the skinny end is hand-drawn for elasticity and strength and that the keeper-bar , which crosses the tie at its widest point , has also been stitched by hand . |
| 7 | Apart from merely disliking the taste of meat , like that of anything else , one might also decide that the cruelty involved in some intensive farming , although not endemic to it , is unacceptable even in the short term . |
| 8 | One might also say that the content of the request for information could provide some basis for the content of the response , especially when the request is for the meaning of an expression to be given . |
| 9 | We discussed with UAPT , CD , and with lenders , the possibility that in this country credit proposal forms might automatically note that a credit reference bureau might be used , and give its name and address . |
| 10 | The nineteenth century case of Nichol provides an example of the kind of situation in which a jury might fairly consider that no consent was present . |
| 11 | One might even guess that the orphan thought of ‘ the wretched rag ’ as a mother substitute — such things are not unknown among young children . |
| 12 | One might even argue that the monist , if he followed the logic of his position , would not be able to discuss language at all : if meaning is inseparable from form , one can not discuss meaning except by repeating the very words in which it is expressed , and one can not discuss form except by saying that it appropriately expresses its own meaning . |
| 13 | You might even find that the lecturer 's blackboard work was straight out of a textbook , perhaps one that he has written himself . |
| 14 | One might well think that a word can not both label a property or a relation revealed to intuition and its meaning be a construct out of the meanings of other expressions . |
| 15 | For example , the management of a retail chain specialising in inexpensive furniture might well decide that the goal of quality is not its first priority . |
| 16 | An extreme sociobiologist or ethologist might well argue that the fact that women largely enjoy home life is a result of their genetic inheritance . |
| 17 | A fundamentalist might well assert that the situation bears witness to the resilience and tenacity of Christian faith . |
| 18 | Instead of a plot of intertwined complication , which would do nicely for a book in which its unravelling was the whole of the matter , you might well find that a plot which consisted of only one major twist or deception would suit you best . |
| 19 | Transnational corporations in the grain business , financing its production , trans ’ porting it around the world , building handling facilities , processing it , breeding fine seeds , might well consider that the inhibition of Third World grain production will maximize their profits . |
| 20 | Between the Buid and the Christians there is a difference in outlook so profound that one might almost say that a state of permanent antagonism and hostility prevails between them . |
| 21 | This might be treated as evidence that Gibbon uses an abnormally large number of abstract nouns , but of course it can not , for we might then discover that a preponderance of abstract nouns is quite normal in the prose of Gibbon 's contemporaries , and that Gibbon 's language in this respect is not exceptional . |