Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Mr Wolski rarely looked anyone full in the face , seeming meek and quiet as if in a strong wind he might almost have been blown away . |
| 2 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 3 | When next you 're tempted to indulge in a cheap witticism you might remember that . ’ |
| 4 | For example , in a general index it might be adequate to regard Prisons and Dungeons as one and the same , but in a specialist index devoted to Criminology , this would probably not be acceptable . |
| 5 | In a long dissertation it might be justified as a way of helping your reader remember your starting point ; in a short essay , however , it is redundant and simply shows that you do n't know how to finish . |
| 6 | These terms are only relative to the particular causal model in hand : in a different model we might want to explain what gave rise to the prior variable . |
| 7 | ( In an extreme case we might have a fairly constant number of 0-year-old children ( say 5000 ) in some population , yet averaging 100 deaths each week in the 0–1 age group , so that the ratio of deaths to mean population over a year exceeds 1.01 ) . |