Example sentences of "might [vb infin] a [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agriculture campaigner Robin Maynard said : ‘ £31 million over three years might build a few ornamental ponds in the countryside but it is hardly going to generate a major shift in agricultural policy from over-intensive agriculture to sustainable farming practice . ’ |
| 2 | y you might need a wee these tablets |
| 3 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 4 | But America 's top shops are learning to apply their bar-code data in ways that might surprise a good many customers who shop more often than Mr Bush — and that signal big changes ahead for store managers , as well . |
| 5 | At best , it might produce a few working-class women psychologists who act as double tokens of both the discipline 's liberalism and its anti-sexism . |
| 6 | By late March only seven of a reported 571 oil well fires had been capped and it was estimated that it might take a further three years to extinguish all the fires . |
| 7 | Once upon a time school teachers who climbed might take a favoured few pupils to the crags in the Lagonda or Alvis . |
| 8 | The conference was assured that truly ‘ intelligent ’ machines would come , It was conceded that it might take a few hundred years . |
| 9 | In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself . |
| 10 | A factory might manage a few thousand kinds of parts ; the air force has to cope with over 6m . |
| 11 | Publication of the report is then held over until after the review , and this might mean a further six months . |
| 12 | But , he adds , he might get a few international tickets out of it , which are as rare as gold dust . |
| 13 | It might add a few more years on to his life . |
| 14 | ‘ This area , Miss Williams , might encompass a few square miles of countryside , but it will also take in what is now a very unsightly rubbish tip . |