Example sentences of "[adv] it might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore it might have been thought that the compact microfilm system would have found its way from outreach extensions into busy bureaux to replace the cumbersome paper files but , as will be seen in Chapter 5 , it is in fact likely to remain purely a portable tool . |
| 2 | I have said nothing to anyone so far because I have never been quite sure how much it might affect Mr. Andrew . |
| 3 | The truth had to be reported , no matter how much it might hurt her to do so . |
| 4 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 5 | The Security Council has wisely ruled out the death penalty , however much it might seem justified as retribution . |
| 6 | I could see that he was wondering just how far we had gone in our relationship , and how long it might last . |
| 7 | While the patient is suffering the frustrations and discomforts of being ill , you are likely to be worried about the long-term prospects of his recovery , how long it might take , or indeed whether he will recover at all . |
| 8 | Er it would have been better had he perhaps said , well there 's the time for the job , there 's your card , there 's all the operations listed for you , from one to sixteen or whatever it might be , and each one itemized you know , as to how long it might take . |
| 9 | I ca n't wait for you any longer , especially when I consider how long it might take to extricate you from another relationship if I give you time and you use it to involve yourself with Jones or whoever else you might have in mind … |
| 10 | Or perhaps it might clear up ? |
| 11 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 12 | Do n't you think that perhaps it might have been better for the oil companies to have perhaps done more at an earlier stage , in the the safety side of things ? |
| 13 | Then erm one could go on , because the building industry , for instance , civil engineering , road construction , actual buildings being constructed , they 're all very weather-prone , for quite a large extent of the contract , and so we provide erm weather advice to these people throughout the contract period usually , and not only throughout the contract period , but if the contract is held up because of weather then the , we get extension of contract comes into this , we can advise both sides on whether the claim is justified or not , because we have the statistics of how much rain fell , how cold it was , or perhaps it might have been a windy spell . |
| 14 | Well obviously it might have been |
| 15 | enough it might have just about finished , I think we 'll stop it at that then |
| 16 | so it might 've been Rob that went out with her , but I du n no . |
| 17 | So it might disturb their neighbourhood , you know , so they were n't very impressed with his ideas . |
| 18 | So it might pay a mother to wait for a few days and see what happened to the baby . |
| 19 | Very often , puberty for example , that depression will become more enhanced , so it might present itself as a problem that seems to be rising out of puberty , but as time goes on and through school help that does n't seem to be resolving that problem , I think that 's the point at which the specialist within the school , the teacher within the school , must think about , ‘ This does n't seem to be resolving itself . |
| 20 | So it might make sense to pay off part of her mortgage . |
| 21 | So it might put , might have put some burglars off , that 's not the same case nowadays cos they 're so common . |
| 22 | So it might seem as if Snow could lie purring in his grave , and as if the two cultures were coming together . |
| 23 | Or so it might seem . |
| 24 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |
| 25 | The invisible college is a more influential community than the visible college ( or so it might seem ) . |
| 26 | Comparative sociology is supposed to be the attempt to generate universal propositions on the basis of systematic comparisons of a variety of different societies , and so it might have been expected to stimulate thinking about the global system . |
| 27 | Well that one actually 's not advertized so it might have gone . |
| 28 | After Flinders you are aware I go to Kings and although I trust it will not be so it might take a month to accomplish the journey ( that is if the winds prove contrary ) I state this in order that you might not be alarmed in not hearing from me . |
| 29 | As it is , the estimates by engineers this week of how the diverted lava will flow and how soon it might return to its old course will be based largely on guesswork . |
| 30 | Superficially it might have appeared as though two brawny giants , immobilised but for the sway of their torsos , were about to jab and slash at one another , piercing and flaying till the vampire bat device decided that sufficient flesh had been sliced , that sufficient blood had coagulated in slim cinnabar threads . |