Example sentences of "[pron] might [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might at this moment be living in anguish with Peter Datchett . |
| 2 | to me but I d I still , I do n't get the same feeling from you as perhaps I might with medical notes , if you see what I mean ? |
| 3 | One reason for this , which might at first sight seem paradoxical , was that , except in the aristocracy , the family unit had contracted . |
| 4 | In their Narratives of love and loss ( 1987 , pp.1–2 ) they have set out ‘ to understand and … explain the astonishing emotional depth and moving power of works which might at first sight appear deceptively simple to adult readers , written as they are to be read by children ’ . |
| 5 | Because you can use a particular sort of algebra , based on the so-called binary system , which greatly shortens and simplifies problems , which might at first sight seem terribly long and complicated . |
| 6 | What she can also have , which might at first glance seen off-putting , is great expertise in some abstruse art or science , though this should never of course be an unpleasant one . |
| 7 | But Douglas , concerned about numbers , was against any diminution of their main assembly which might at any time be faced with confronting Balliol 's entire army . |
| 8 | The bars of Victoria 's cot were black and menacing and the line of light under the door from the landing was a brilliant pencil which might at any moment rear up and scrawl ‘ She is not normall ’ lambently on the wall . |
| 9 | And Sadler knew that he would strike a responsive note with his claim that the voluntary evening classes were ‘ wasteful of human material which might by timely care be made more serviceable to the State ’ . |
| 10 | Oil-spill experts from a number of countries flew into the area to assist with cleaning-up operations , which were largely limited to defending the intakes of desalination plants with the use of booms and " skimmer " vessels ; the slick was seen as too large for practical use of chemical dispersants , which might in any case damage marine life , and the best hope for its dispersal lay in a combination of the natural processes of evaporation and breakdown by marine bacteria . |
| 11 | So far we have considered primacy either as a manifestation of corporate tradition , or as a factor in Anselm 's relations with the pope , the archbishop of York , and other interested parties who might for one reason or another support or oppose Anselm 's claims . |
| 12 | The other people in the restaurant , who might at other times have had stringent thoughts about race , or about white women publicly embracing black men ( or at least , not with such total lack of self-consciousness ) , were subdued — it could be seen from faces that showed tendencies to laugh too without reason to the demand of the occasion , which was for a total and uncritical abandon to happiness . |
| 13 | He observed people closely , as was only natural for a painter , and he was already watching Mauve , the friendly mentor who might at any moment turn into an enemy . |
| 14 | The wife had then deserted the husband and was temporarily wrongfully away from home ; but she might at any time return . |
| 15 | So far from being , as you might at first glance suspect , a wanton display of Milton 's monstrous learning , it 's a piece of triumphant relevance . |
| 16 | You might in good time like to write a pop-psychology book under that title ? |
| 17 | Thus , though one might for some purposes characterise the human sciences as concerned with human behaviour in all its fullness this is to misrepresent what turn out to be very different ways of looking at or being interested in the world of human beings . |
| 18 | One might in any case question whether any modern edition is appropriate for a book on language since one will have to approach the language through a modern editor 's eyes instead of through contemporary ones . |
| 19 | We also have in the area a tremendous number of new houses which have never been contacted by us or for by any political party and I would hope that we might be able to do er something about the area behind the church there is er an area that comes to mind which could well be fruitful , and I would hope that we might during this year get er some kind of literature out to these places apart from election literature . |
| 20 | We might at this stage , however , recall from Chapter 2 the processes outlined by the Chicago School and , in particular , by G. H. Mead . |
| 21 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 22 | Over and over again , in all cultures , psychoanalytic investigations insistently reveal what Freud termed the ‘ Oedipus complex ’ but what we might with equal justice call the ‘ Gelada complex ’ . |
| 23 | Although this policy may have been viewed as a ‘ reasonable ’ intervention in the free market for private housing , there might in any case have been problems of enforcement of restrictions on resale . |
| 24 | It may be concluded , therefore , that the advantages which Categories 1 and 2 afford to the prosecution are by no means as great as they might at first sight appear to be . |
| 25 | This debate is important because it points up that ‘ the facts ’ are not necessarily as simple and straightforward as they might at first sight seem . |
| 26 | The light was spreading fast and if they were asleep in one of the rock shelters they might at any moment wake and stumble on Marian . |
| 27 | The stone buildings surrounding it seemed less solid in the moonlight , as if they might at any moment shimmer and disappear . |
| 28 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 29 | This means changing people 's way of thinking and working , maybe breaking down fences and getting them to share information they might for some reason be reluctant to divulge . |
| 30 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |