Example sentences of "might [vb infin] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system might stipulate that the tender brief be fully defined before bids are invited |
| 2 | You might think that the second group find it easier to transition to what is , after all , only one half of the problems they 've been used to cope with aboard their twins . |
| 3 | At a moment like this , one might think that the single market should dominate the Community thinking , but that is not so . |
| 4 | Thus , while the Profitboss might think that the red logo has more impact , he 'll accept his boss 's decision to go for green . |
| 5 | There are two reasons why society might consider that the social cost of a capital good is less than its private cost . |
| 6 | It might appear that the whole life of the later novel is in its sting , but there is more to it than sting . |
| 7 | In answer to those who might claim that the perverse approach to this particular movement illustrates that the conductor had lost his grip on the orchestra by the time of this recording , I can only say that the playing of the New Philharmonia is magnificent . |
| 8 | There is at least one instance of an aedile of a pagus , although we might suspect that the praefectus pagi of the Gallic Epotes lies outside the normal run of local government officials , though it must be remembered that magistrates could appoint prefects to act for them in their absence . |
| 9 | It is quite conceivable , however , that if more specific recording took place , a picture might emerge that a particular housing estate is suffering from damp . |
| 10 | One might guess that a substantive discussion of this issue would centre on the question of linguistic performance : Danto ( 1960 ) suggested that we will do violence to the English language if machines achieve certain linguistic performances but we still refuse to deem them conscious . |
| 11 | We might conjecture that the general form of the solution for which we seek is as follows : |
| 12 | Nevertheless , these data might suggest that a golden age of housing had arrived , but there is also clear evidence of substantial housing stress in Britain in the mid-1980s . |
| 13 | Or it might suggest that the religious symbols , by which men and women have conferred meaning on their lives , meet such pressing psychological needs that they remain impervious to scientific frames of meaning , which , in the last analysis , only dictate how things are and how they came to be so , without pretending to answer the why and the wherefore . |
| 14 | This might suggest that the major difficulty with closed class items is that they are harder to access than open class items . |
| 15 | And here I might remark that the chief point that strikes the observer as he goes through this department is the predominance of the bogie — in fact , there is very little else . |
| 16 | One might remark that the working-class child considered it redundant to constantly refer to the presence of a picture since he knew that the researcher was present and could see it for himself . |
| 17 | A casual observer might conclude that the physical presence of police and troops , the centralized command structures , are simple failures of a kind common enough in all human political creations . |
| 18 | Given the enormous time , more than five minutes , it takes for each page this is very useful otherwise you might conclude that the whole machine has hung . |
| 19 | You might decide that the third gate will stand for an unknown option , which you have yet to consider . |
| 20 | The identification of symptomatic gall stones after operation might imply that the enterohepatic circulation of bile salts is disturbed by altering the function of the terminal ileum after this operation . |
| 21 | One might note that the full rhymes are similarly not always exact , some of them being ‘ masculine ’ , i.e. on one syllable only , but some ‘ feminine ’ , on more than one syllable , and tending towards similarity rather than identity , as in ‘ Arvernien/journey in ’ , ‘ armoured him/harm from him ’ , ‘ helmet tall/emerald ’ , etc . |
| 22 | This much granted , someone might maintain that the fundamental basis for the call to liberate slaves amounted to the dual demand that , first , their interests not be ignored , and , secondly , their interests be counted equitably . |
| 23 | The fact that 3 of our patients had had brain cysticercosis might indicate that an abnormal AChE could be related to the intellectual deterioration in this disease , when a certain number of cysts are located in the regions responsible for memory and cognition . |
| 24 | You might suppose that a bad smell would not deter a really hungry hunter , but anyone who has received a full squirt from a skunk knows very well that it is almost unendurable . |
| 25 | It might seem that a simple complement of the analysis offered above for acquired equivalence would supply us with a mechanism for acquired distinctiveness . |
| 26 | It might seem that a suitable algorithm could be found which would not generate synonyms . |
| 27 | It might seem that the primeval Fall underlies this poem 's events as surely as Venice underlies its epigraph , standing as the reality which underlies various writers ' interpretations . |
| 28 | Clearly , this kind of work would not be undertaken unless it was thought possible that causal relationships between variables might exist , just as a medical researcher might hypothesize a causal relationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer , or as a historical linguist might hypothesize that a contributory cause of palatalization of [ k ] is an adjacent front vowel . |
| 29 | For example , one might propose that the mental lexicon is divided into a semantic and a phonological system , rather than being a unified whole , and that priming occurs in only one of these systems . |
| 30 | One might speculate that an impending solution to the Northern Ireland problem would split off from the clerical leadership those groups for whom the present position is only accepted on pragmatic grounds . |