Example sentences of "it might [vb infin] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 2 | If roads were contained within a perspex tunnel and regularly patrolled by wildlife wardens , armed with splints and bandages and trained in every kind of veterinary first aid , I suppose it might go some way towards reducing this tragic toll . |
| 3 | erm I sometimes feel erm that erm in fact = it would be a good idea when I see people doing things which I regard as immediately dangerous , but I think it might make considerable difficulties for the relationship between the police and the motoring public which erm are already at times very strained , and I 'm not sure , for some of the reasons erm that Norbert has suggested , that it 's erm necessarily a very erm happy system . |
| 4 | ‘ It might make interesting reading for the over 30 sporting population , ’ he says . |
| 5 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It feels almost as though it might stay this way for ever . ’ |
| 8 | It might bring more people into the area . |
| 9 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 10 | The proposal attracted strong opposition , some arguing that it might withdraw legal protection from the weak and vulnerable , others arguing that the fundamental ethical problems could not be satisfactorily resolved by legal definition . |
| 11 | OSF because it might get additional royalties for its technologies , particularly the Distributed Computing Environment ( DCE ) . |
| 12 | I mean , I 'll get a box sent to me and it might get one spin at home so that I can relax , sort of wipe my brow knowing it does n't jump , the quality 's good and it 's loud enough … ’ |
| 13 | In the short term , it might have serious effects for consumers ' budgets ; in the long term , it might encourage a switch to nuclear or solar power . |
| 14 | And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now . |
| 15 | Even if the accident does not seem serious at the time , but you think it might have some ill-effect in the future you should apply to the DSS for a decision that it was an industrial accident . |
| 16 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it might take some while for the outside world to learn of . |
| 18 | It might require public subsidies to political parties to finance their own newspapers and television stations . |
| 19 | Although it was being carried out at Winnington , home of ICI 's Alkali Division , it was being sponsored in part by the company 's dyestuffs interests , in the hope that it might provide new routes to organic chemicals used as intermediates . |
| 20 | If this were all that Goody claimed he was saying there would still be problems of definition but it might provide some insight into the specific nature of classical Greece and the specific forms of literacy developed there . |
| 21 | I dared not go to his house , fearing that it might cause further trouble for him . |