Example sentences of "might [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman might like to know that last year saw record levels of exports from this country and that our share of manufactured exports in world trade has been rising since 1984 . |
| 2 | We might wish to say that any accountant would produce the same set of accounts from the same data . |
| 3 | However , despite this evidence , prosecution would have been political suicide since the defendants might have argued that civil servants and certain government ministers knew of the oil sanctions-busting arrangements and therefore the company considered their actions , although technically illegal , were informally condoned by governmental officials . |
| 4 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 5 | For example , in Price ( 1989 ) 90 Cr App R 409 ( CA ) , such an instruction is necessary only where the accused might have thought that ordinary people would regard his conduct as honest . |
| 6 | One might have thought that these trends would not present major difficulties since one apparent virtue of the British constitution was its flexibility . |
| 7 | One might have thought that these divisions would at least cease to operate in church , but there too Kerr advocates a rigid hierarchy : ‘ The best of all systems of arrangement is to place the family and their guests in front , strangers of position next behind them , and the upper and lower servants , together with strangers of their classes respectively , in successive order . ’ |
| 8 | We decided to begin our search in the deep midwaters on the basis of the results mentioned above , even though , at first sight , biological considerations might have suggested that inshore waters were more promising . |
| 9 | From a reading of their own literature , librarians and information scientists might have expected that one area where use of IT would definitely have been recognised to be giving such an advantage to its users is that of the retrieval of publicly available information online . |