Example sentences of "[noun sg] it might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report suggested that if more liability for the contract was placed on the contractor it might result in a higher tender price , but lower cost increases during the work programme . |
| 2 | He said a skilled and ethical therapist would resist such an advance , knowing the harm it might cause the patient . |
| 3 | Said by Sherlock Holmes to Dr Watson at the scene of a murder it might function as an interpretation . |
| 4 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 5 | Last November he refused to chair a conference on AIDS for fear it might cause panic . |
| 6 | But then again in the future it might sink in that that there was a special reason for it , I do n't know . |
| 7 | As I told you I think I have made observations which lead me to conclude that there are not only high but fertile lands on the verge of our intertropical Regions , and arguing from the Character of the Ranges here I should not be surprised to find in the more distant parts of the Continent , a Country vying with America in richness of Natural products , and I have very little doubts but that the discoveries to be made would amply repay the government any outlay it might make . |
| 8 | ‘ If it was biological as opposed to chemical it might have been unstable , mutated by now into something non-lethal . |
| 9 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
| 10 | But the FA 's reply confirmed that they would not allow the match to take place because they were worried about the effect it might have on the pitch . |
| 11 | The first lay in the effect it might have on teaching and learning and the second in too great a concentration of power in the hands of the government of the day and especially with one person , the Secretary of State . |
| 12 | Her father maybe , with the tape around his neck , awful sleeveen Sean Walsh , who never said a word without thinking carefully of the possible effect it might have . |
| 13 | The issue of additionality was discussed at some length because of the light it might throw on whether there was more to Making Belfast Work than hype . |
| 14 | This is what it was all about , to push the Germans back , mile by mile , no matter how long or what dreadful toll it might take , until they were safely confined behind their own boundaries again . |
| 15 | Well , if you put a , just hit it down a little bit , I got , probably wo n't get through , but if you hit it down a little bit to give it a bit of spin it might carry it through . |
| 16 | And a fine mess it might turn out to be . |
| 17 | So it would not seem unreasonable that you know , from the date of the Financial Services Act it might come in there . |
| 18 | The link between Edinburgh and Leith is the spacious boulevard known as Leith Walk , which sadly lacks the Parisian elegance it might have had but still retains a certain impressiveness . |
| 19 | Even the knighthood was not the honour it might seem , for James I had instigated the practice of charging for knighthoods , and Charles I had compounded his profit by fining those who had the temerity to refuse . |
| 20 | If the National Health Service Management Executive was to tackle this issue it might find that it was pushing at an open door . |
| 21 | She had not intended to bring this out into the open in quite this way , but she was left with little option , and she had a vague instinct that in the long run it might reap results . |
| 22 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 23 | Looking simplistically at her behaviour at home it might have been assumed that she conformed to a typical stereotype of an AD sufferer . |
| 24 | Then if your child does turn on the hot tap by accident it might hurt but it wo n't scald . |
| 25 | If that opportunity had been available to him , who knows what difference it might have made ? |
| 26 | To the unpractised eye it might appear a hotch-potch thrown together at random . |
| 27 | ( The court was explaining how to assess whether a procedure was an arbitration or a valuation : in that inquiry it might help to look at the profession of the umpire : see further 15.6 . ) |
| 28 | As a consequence it might have been present in the putative progenitors of mitochondria . |
| 29 | In his opinion it might burst , flooding the house at any moment . |
| 30 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |