Example sentences of "it might [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougal wondered if the absence of upper-case letters was a conscious literary gimmick ; alternatively , it might suggest a simple failure to master the typewriter 's shift-key . |
| 2 | It might feel the same way again , ’ one diplomat pointed out . |
| 3 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 4 | Indeed it might have-in a different situation where some or all of the rest of the causal circumstance for e was missing . |
| 5 | ‘ I hope it might give a ten year old kid a little inspiration , a little boost and when it comes out of him , I 'm happy . |
| 6 | Indeed , the EEC , in anticipation of its enlargement , had also begun to consider how it might accommodate the remaining EFTA states , all of whom for varying reasons could not consider joining the EEC , or were precluded from doing so . |
| 7 | Her solicitor had said it might fit a safety-deposit box at the Venetian bank . |
| 8 | On some occasions , however , contextual information might actually be unhelpful in that it might exclude the correct item . |
| 9 | It might make a few people think , which is good . |
| 10 | She would support McAllister 's idea to prettify the baby clothes ; it might make the poor things feel happier and that someone really cared about them . |
| 11 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 12 | Within western society it might represent a socio-economic group , people in a particular employment or a young people 's counter-culture and so on . |
| 13 | Alternatively , it might represent a pessimistic feeling about the ability to carry the existing borrowing . |
| 14 | Some day it might fetch a pretty packet . |
| 15 | ‘ It might change the whole line of my thought . ’ |
| 16 | Steve shrugged as if it might usher the whole evening away if he was lucky . |
| 17 | If enough acetaldehyde passed into the blood , it might alter the oxygen-carrying ability of the blood , and this could affect the amount of oxygen reaching the brain . |
| 18 | How could you love a child who , because of its strangeness and deformity , precluded you from having a child of your own because it might bear the same strangeness and deformity ? |
| 19 | ‘ How shall I entertain you , Dr Neil ? ’ she enquired , and then regretted what she had said — it might bear the wrong meaning . |
| 20 | It might signify a whole host of different things , such as the person is : |
| 21 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 22 | Earlier in March the UK government had indicated that it might resume the forced repatriation of boat people from Hong Kong , which it had begun in December 1989 but suspended soon afterwards [ see pp. 37121-2 ] . |
| 23 | But perhaps the greatest fear about workfare is that it might reduce the political spur to create jobs and lead to an army of people working in poorly paid conditions . |
| 24 | Hardly a barrel of laughs but it might raise a few smiles . |
| 25 | The peseta 's devaluation on May 13th looked as if it might help the right-of-centre opposition People 's Party , but the party 's leader , Jose Maria Aznar , failed to exploit the opportunity and polls taken after the devaluation showed the ruling Socialists nosing ahead . |
| 26 | Just as dangerous , probably , but at least it might get the whole affair over with and , to some extent , I would be in charge of my own destiny . |
| 27 | If this sediment were carbonate-rich , it might imply a short cycle time because carbonate deep-sea sediment was rare before 600 million years ago . |
| 28 | P. J. Lawless ( unpublished work ) suggested that it might imply an extended period of volcanic activity , but if the low-temperature mica age is correct , the older age for the zircon megacrysts can be reinterpreted as the true mean age of their formation , close to but significantly before eruption . |
| 29 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 30 | Number 12a is a small building that looks as if it might house an unskilled worker with a large family . |