Example sentences of "[pron] might have [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had . |
| 2 | I can , I might have two holidays now , two days ' holiday . |
| 3 | I have n't given her a hint that I might have Nazi sympathies . ’ |
| 4 | We have striven to avoid statements of attainment that require assessment which might have undesirable effects in the classroom , for example the use of language exercises out of context or other activities of an arid kind . |
| 5 | The article criticised the ‘ hopeless confusion of the post-war years ’ which had created the risk ‘ that in incompetent hands this country may go drifting on either towards a sharp crisis which might have revolutionary consequences , or to dictatorship , or perhaps worse still to gradual decline … |
| 6 | Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles , a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences . |
| 7 | But that if they did not make progress we were going to be in a really difficult situation which might have military overtones as well . |
| 8 | Erm I was thinking of phoning John , I do n't know if anyone else knows anyone else who might have tubular bells of the right pitches ? |
| 9 | She might have four children , but still thoroughly enjoyed that sort of thing . |
| 10 | Yes she might have some ideas . |
| 11 | Of course , Tocqueville recognized that the development of the industrial system itself might have important effects upon the democratic regime , especially through the emergence in productive industry of a new ‘ aristocracy ’ , but he was inclined to regard this as an exceptional and temporary phenomenon which would not be able to withstand the general tendency of democracy to bring about greater equality . |
| 12 | You might have masochistic tendencies . ’ |
| 13 | Yeah , erm of course er some some you 'd sold it to you might have other friends who you did n't have as friends . |
| 14 | I think you might have better things Oh do you ? |
| 15 | Difficult you might have certain standards they must achieve , now for example er answer the telephones in three rings , answer your name and your department is that measurable ? |
| 16 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 17 | You might have ageing parents who you support and god knows how much other outgoings which are hidden and then you have to go down that road and say that you 're going to look at at financial status you 're going to have to say and exactly what are all of your outgoings in and now down going to get real unpleasant intrusion into people 's business . |
| 18 | ‘ I wondered if you might have any papers relating to it . ’ |
| 19 | I opted for bright summertime colours but for autumn you might have brown hedgehogs shuffling through leaves of russet and gold . |
| 20 | Until the last few years , the thought that one might have microscopic techniques sensitive enough to actually see tiny changes in the structure of neurons and their synapses as a result of learning seemed improbable — to start with , one would need to have a very good idea where to look and what to measure in the brain . |
| 21 | This seems close to what Williams says , in the above quotation , that rights are to be understood as ‘ assuring expectations ’ of which animals are incapable ( which is not to deny that we might have such expectations concerning the treatment of animals ) : |
| 22 | But before we reached that point , we might have other problems . |
| 23 | If we could get to know one another better , we might have better relationships generally . |
| 24 | For example , we might have 10000 cattle distributed over 100 farms ; a simple random sample of 200 cattle is likely to involve most of these herds , resulting in a great deal of travelling by the investigators . |
| 25 | Said it 's still very early , we could pop to Leveringham , oh we do n't know where it is we might have some details in this , what we got ta do with my money . |
| 26 | If we had made different choices , we might have different industries , different types of towns and a different countryside . |
| 27 | The senior partner explained patiently that the nurse herself might have suspect motives in accusing the doctor of malpractice . |
| 28 | So therefore if an em an employment officer visited twenty employers in a day instead of ten , er they might have two contracts instead of one . |
| 29 | Such routes should increase in density towards the town centre , where they might have weather-protection canopies and be served by what Ramsay has called ‘ pedestrian service points ’ . |
| 30 | Another twenty minutes , he thought , then perhaps at last they might have some answers . |