Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis .
2 Then he named them , along with Liverpool 's Rob Jones and still injured John Barnes , as the five he believed might embellish further an encouraging performance by a Paul Gascoigne-inspired England .
3 Though it is possible that the facts of such a case might show merely the legitimate compromise of a claim to damages , on the other hand , the facts might be such as to constitute extortion and blackmail of a serious type .
4 To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result .
5 We might note here the central role of locales in these processes .
6 Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going .
7 He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago .
8 Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges .
9 Now at the moment that might seem quite a good idea , we have a very right-wing Tory government and Europe seems very reasonable .
10 You you might get quite a nasty shock .
11 With equal conviction a neighbouring headteacher might adopt quite a different approach — arguing that only by building a curriculum and a school day around the child can learning be effective and meaningful .
12 In expressing that objection , other contemporaries were undoubtedly swayed by the realization that Lyell 's axiom would so greatly increase the age of the earth that it might threaten even a generous reading of Genesis .
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