Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now one of the things you might 've seen from the corporate briefings is you 've got the budget figure and a forecast figure . |
| 2 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 3 | But er often you might want to trigger off a particular pattern coming on the trace . |
| 4 | The other connection that you might want to make to the rising main is one for an instantaneous gas water heater or electric shower , which need mains pressure , or one of the devices which alter the quality of the water — a softener , conditioner or filter , say . |
| 5 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |
| 6 | The weary visitor would sigh with relief that the production had at least been cut to two hours , and head for the nearest library where she might enjoy reading about the buried feminine aspects of the play . |
| 7 | In a workshop session which the BA might consider restaging as a full day seminar , Peter Mouncey of the AA , Leslie Henry of Book Marketing Ltd and Sue Morris of W H Smith tackled ‘ Targeting the book market — the role of research ’ from three different though complementary angles . |
| 8 | Clustering is easier when every function and predicate which we might consider applies to every conceivable training instance . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , it is interesting to note that the risk elements used by Fuqua are very similar to some of the elements one might expect to see in a strategic analysis of market attractiveness and competitive strengths . |
| 10 | Er one wonders how on earth they speak to each other , or if indeed they even know who each other is or where their offices are and there is n't that personal relationship that one might expect to find in the normal concept of a legal firm and indeed er without clearly we go to off the point somewhat to have a discussion as to whether or not er a partnership is a suitable legal entity for these people to trade under . |
| 11 | The Colonel was in a hurry , realising how essential it was to keep the momentum of the attack rolling ; otherwise the resistance might become coordinated into a strong , interlocked series of defence positions . |
| 12 | Readers might like to experiment with a shunting locomotive — reliable progress seems possible at scale speeds as low as 2mph on clean track . |
| 13 | At any rate , at the next ward meeting , he suggested that I might like to stand for the local council . |
| 14 | THE ARBITERS of Britain 's nuclear future , now sitting at the Sizewell inquiry , might like to know of a new hazard connected with pressurised-water reactors . |
| 15 | for instance , seeing how firearms had decimated their neighbours , they might decide to bow to the inevitable and offer tribute before it was demanded with menaces . |
| 16 | An electrical equipment manufacturer , for example , might decide to go for a fully-fitted kitchen including all their own appliances as the top prize , with a small number of runners-up receiving a toaster or sandwich maker . |
| 17 | The owner of the copyright in the computer program , suddenly realizing that he has rights with respect to the output generated from using the program , might attempt to interfere with the subsequent use of that output in the hope that he will be able to negotiate a fee for his permission . |
| 18 | We can try to think of practical ways in which a minority of Tit for Tat individuals might happen to increase to the critical mass . |
| 19 | Erm , I wonder if this is a matter which budget review might wish to keep on a continuing brief , so that , to satisfy themselves that the , this council is in fact making progress , and will be in a position to satisfy the district auditor in future years that we are er , taking on board the comments that he 's making and er , moving forward . |
| 20 | Perhaps we might try to think of an ideal university tutorial in an Arts subject as though it were a little world in isolation from everything else . |
| 21 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
| 22 | A leader with more authority might have brushed off the so-called ‘ desk-drawer affair ’ . |
| 23 | Any offensive operations which the United States might have to conduct on the Asiatic continent would probably avoid the Korean peninsula . |
| 24 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 25 | This expert might have to deal with a wide variety of issues , including the builder's/lessor 's obligations to obtain planning permission , as well as the design and construction obligations , issues which are usually left to an arbitrator or an Official Referee of the High Court . |
| 26 | My initial perceptions of a college of further education might have begun on a lofty plane , but I was soon brought down to earth with a bump . |
| 27 | In a clumsier pair of hands , the novel might have begun with an Elizabethan cartographer , say , or a Caroline poet , and died at birth of irretrievable archness . |
| 28 | Although Toryism might have survived as a distinctive ideology , and although a Tory party with its own organisation might have continued to exist , the fact of the matter is that single-party government was established under George I and George II , and there was no swinging back and forth between Tory- and Whig-dominated administrations such as had happened under William and Anne . |
| 29 | She spoke as she might have done to a nervous child . |
| 30 | Just once , as the waves came up over her feet , she hesitated and gave a short gasp , as anyone might have done at the sudden cold . |