Example sentences of "it might [vb infin] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might feel the same way again , ’ one diplomat pointed out . |
| 2 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On some occasions , however , contextual information might actually be unhelpful in that it might exclude the correct item . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It might change the whole line of my thought . ’ |
| 7 | Steve shrugged as if it might usher the whole evening away if he was lucky . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | ‘ How shall I entertain you , Dr Neil ? ’ she enquired , and then regretted what she had said — it might bear the wrong meaning . |
| 11 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This does not perhaps leave the section totally without point , in that by directing the board to consider the employees it might expand the cognitive basis of decision making and so might on occasion lead to a superior accommodation of employee interests within the traditional framework of shareholder supremacy . |
| 18 | As planned , it might follow the solid line OAB . |
| 19 | As planned , it might follow the solid line OAB . |
| 20 | Indeed , being a composer may even be a drawback , for it might lessen the critical distance that the soloist needs to maintain in order to bring a fresh interpretation to bear . |