Example sentences of "might need " in BNC.

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1 You might need to draw on all your skills to manage safely in a strange machine .
2 Motability can provide the names of professional organisations who can assess the needs of the disabled person and advise them whether or not they are capable of driving and what sort of car and adaptations they might need .
3 I had purposely left it unwashed , stuffing it in a suitcase because I might need to spread it out on my bridegroom 's bed in the dark of night .
4 The only problem comes where the existing switch is part of a two-way system , where you might need some technical help understanding the instructions , which are often written in electrician 's jargon rather than plain English .
5 And the fear was a burden , that he might need to move to a place which would kill his intellectual life .
6 In their nervousness they offered at once the gifts they had brought : tea , fruit , duty-free whiskey — ‘ It 'll be useful to have in the house even if nobody drinks it and we might need a glass ’ — a printed silk headscarf , thick fur gloves .
7 The car might need a running repair ; the wife would want a ‘ drive ’ in the country or , at least , a lift to the shops .
8 ‘ We are still in the Middle East and one day the government might need teeth . ’
9 But they want to be sure it is empty at the time they might need to sell or redevelop .
10 It should be possible to live in any one of them without staff , though some might need a large and willing family to maintain them .
11 To give enterprises a chance to adjust and to avoid a crunch that would undermine support for further reform , governments might need to start with high tariffs , promising to eliminate them over , say , five years .
12 When I was working at a hospice I followed up bereaved people who it was felt might need some support .
13 My family ca n't understand why I might need to eat more , and tell me it 's greediness .
14 In Ajdabiya Zuwaya did not consider the possibility that they might need to sink their differences with the Magharba in order to confront a common enemy .
15 You never knew when they might need it .
16 It also covers you for anything that might need to be done in between .
17 Today 's family farmers and many of the part-time farmers were probably faced with more pressures than their predecessors and might need assistance to overcome them .
18 ATB staff and Group Organisers might need to pay more attention in future to the exploration of wider alternatives in course structure and timing .
19 The assumption made was that perhaps as many as one child in five might need special educational help at some stage in their school career .
20 She was of course famous for her powers of observation ; she was better than any of us at using the mirrors which she had had installed everywhere to keep an eye on everything that was happening , or was about to happen and might need averting .
21 A man weighs about as much as 3000 mice , and might need a bigger dose on the same scale .
22 The need for a centralized reference laboratory stemmed from the difficulty in persuading venereal-disease pathologists that their own test methods might need revising .
23 The Banstead Place Mobility Centre has full facilities for training disabled drivers and for assessing what alterations their vehicles might need .
24 Could you tell me what kit I might need for the cross country phase for both horse and rider ?
25 To ignore something that could ( Henry was prepared to admit that The Complete History might need work ) be one of the most exciting developments in social history this century .
26 And when she said , ‘ I might need to , and then I 'd just walk out , ’ Agnes was round the table as if she had been shot there and , holding her sister by the shoulders , she cried at her , ‘ Do n't do that , Jessie !
27 What she might need is a good fright .
28 Even if you do n't need the money for domestic or emergency reasons , you might need a holiday somewhere special — to go to your daughter 's wedding in Australia — or to go on a second honeymoon .
29 And for this ministry ‘ the director needs , or might need , the total picture … because all aspects of life might impinge on the development of prayer ’ .
30 If you feel the ‘ fit ’ is wrong so that the relationship is not working well you might need to consider ending it , for there should be a growing sense of ease as you get to know each other .
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