Example sentences of "[noun] might do the " in BNC.

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1 Controlled by a single gene , the deficiency is usually harmless , but certain drugs for malaria or a type of bean can cause those without the proper gene to suffer acute anaemia , and it is thought that some chemical might do the same .
2 Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie .
3 Of course , in open economy models of temporary equilibrium , alterations in the nominal exchange rate might do the trick of reducing real wages through their impact on the terms of trade ; but , in the case of a devaluation , this would succeed only to the extent that the phenomenon of real wage resistance were not encountered .
4 Formentera might do the trick .
5 By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing .
6 It is hoped that the British unit might do the same .
7 Destroying them in a brain might do the same .
8 The commonest evasions , certainly well known in the twelfth century , were the pretence that the original loan was greater than in fact it was , or the securing of a loan by a temporary grant of land ; in the former case the difference between the actual loan and the repayment in fact constituted interest ; and in the latter the rent on the land might do the same .
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