Example sentences of "[noun sg] they might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political spin-offs from crusading are therefore more difficult to calculate than at first glance they might appear . |
| 2 | The vast foyer was carpeted in the softest green imaginable , the walls were even paler , so that at first glance they might have been taken for white , and the venetian blinds were a perfectly blended shade of moss . |
| 3 | We need to analyse the interaction between electors , whose attitudes have already been influenced by a variety of considerations ( ranging from their own sense of both national and local political issues , down to whatever perception they might have concerning their need to accommodate themselves to their social superiors ) , and the party electioneers , who were determined to influence the electorate in whatever way they thought fit ( which invariably meant a combination of political propaganda and various forms of manipulation , bribery and intimidation ) . |
| 4 | Teacher-in-role starts a class improvisation as if they were a local community in the mid-west hearing what a bright future they might have if only they would abandon their homes and move west . |
| 5 | The hand was hot , the skin dry and the slender fingers lay in her palm like splinters of fine porcelain — she was afraid to squeeze them for fear they might snap . |
| 6 | The fiasco at the Gorbachev/Reagan summit at Reykjavik seems more likely due to a lack of understanding on the part of Reagan and his advisers and the fear they might go too fast for their NATO partners . |
| 7 | He persuaded the government to allow a group of students to be sent to the USA in 1872 , but they were recalled for fear they might become ‘ too gay ( morally loose ) or western ’ ( Wang 1928 : 44 ) , a comment which would not be out of place in more recent times . |
| 8 | It was what actors call a total ‘ corpse ’ , and , although they managed to get through to the end of the play , any tension they might have built up was dissipated . |
| 9 | Advise Arthur , Bert and Charlie as to any rights of action they might have in tort against Chartist plc and as to any defences with which they might be met . |
| 10 | As a result local authorities have been requested to take into consideration the following Code of Practice : ‘ Control of Smells from the Animal Waste Processing Industry ’ when contemplating any action they might take in order to reduce odour nuisance , and to be aware of the Reports of the Working Party on the Suppression of Odours from Offensive and Selected Other Trades , which gives guidance on the best practicable means for dealing with odours . |
| 11 | Rational people will predict them and thereby annul any effect they might have on real variables . |
| 12 | Almost as a bonus they might have gained a very cheap solution to an expensive problem . |
| 13 | For example , in the laboratory , experimental subjects might be asked to role-play in hypothetical future situations , in order to discover under what types of circumstance they might Take the Role of the Other . |
| 14 | Purchasers may not understand the extent of their liabilities and the true extent of the help they might receive in an emergency . |
| 15 | ( The concessions related to the defendant 's entitlement to make use of any recollection they might have of the names and addresses of the plaintiff 's customers as well as the most convenient routes by which the premises of such customers could be reached . |
| 16 | He says that if the ambulancemen had a map reference they might have found him sooner . |
| 17 | The Russians are so bureaucratic that any gems of intelligence they might cull are lost in a mass of trivial dross . |
| 18 | Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman of the Board of Governors there , thought that ‘ if the hospitals worked with the County Council they might do a tremendous lot for the co-ordination of the general health system . |
| 19 | When very successful footballers , cricketers , boxers , golfers , even amateur rugby players like Bill Beaumont and Gareth Edwards , retired from their sport they might hope to cash in somehow . |
| 20 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 21 | If she had learned to be self-effacing , cultivated a mysterious absence or aloofness they might forget her altogether , or so she feared deep down , not openly , not admitting to herself this appalling possibility . |
| 22 | At the level he now was the breakers looked menacing , as though at any moment they might sweep in to engulf him . |
| 23 | For so long as she and Andrew were together , a pulse , a nerve , something integral to her loving would break free from her control to distort the nearest moment they might share . |
| 24 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 25 | At any moment they might come sweeping back into the cockpit , impaling Trent or Mariana . |
| 26 | If they were n't from shame they might have been from Norman Ebbsworth : he finished the visit having hit 38 fours and 18 ‘ brilliant sixers ’ . |
| 27 | I could become a burden to me wife and family , not only that , if I could n't pay the mortgage they might throw us out of the cottage . |
| 28 | On the other hand , from a different vantage point they might have seen the body without having to go right to the edge . |
| 29 | Most of the other mourners were listening to this with the same rapt attention they might have accorded a vaguely accurate account of Donald 's life . |
| 30 | The author 's sounder proposition is that , when South Africa 's rulers at last ( perhaps too late ) released the one black leader they might strike a deal with , they marked the end of the period in which the words ‘ national liberation ’ had any meaning in Africa . |