Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] a [noun sg] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost instinctively , people worried that so outstanding a year might tempt Helen to switch at once to the professional circuit . |
| 2 | She could address a letter to ‘ the occupier ’ , but so impersonal a request might well go unheeded . |
| 3 | So such a child might say to a carer or someone they trust , ‘ Look after my Mummy and Daddy , please , because they are very upset . |
| 4 | Superficially such a resolution might appear to have been no more than a minimum concession by the Federation in response to the seamen 's involvement in a wave of strikes by transport workers which had reverberated around the ports of Britain in the previous summer — an undertaking that it would withdraw its " ticket " if the union would do the same , so that neither side would attempt to control the supply of seamen and free labour disputes would cease . |
| 5 | If a child is born with some degree of mental impairment and has parents able to handle the situation calmly , without undue guilt or anxiety , creating a relaxed home atmosphere , encouraging the child 's full development however slow it is , making use of the best educational facilities available and providing a stable , reassuring , affectionate home , then such a child might well not be severely handicapped by the disability , but grow up relatively independent , sociable and self-confident . |
| 6 | The Group did not look in detail at how such a scheme might be privately financed , and an Anglo-French banking study was commissioned to examine the issues . |
| 7 | If I might turn briefly to see how such a scheme might possibly work . |
| 8 | It is fairly easy to see how such a notion might give the behaviour of randomly decaying atoms . |
| 9 | Yet , unless a real emergency should occur , it was difficult to see how such a government might be brought about . |
| 10 | Thus , despite widespread support for a National Government , there was little idea of how such a government might be brought about ; and little support for it among those who really mattered . |
| 11 | Figure 5.4 illustrates how such a situation might arise . |
| 12 | Yes , I think also how you feel it could be improved would be very relevant and how you would feel in the context of a pensioners meeting , an annual meeting like shareholders have in companies and how you if you have any views on how such a meeting might be managed in relation to the deferred pensioners interests , the existing pensioners interests , the employees interest and obviously the company 's interest being adequately reflected at such a meeting but I think we would welcome that aspect . |
| 13 | Nobody has convincingly worked out how such a distortion might occur , but the notion that odd things can happen in the solid state is firmly entrenched in many minds . |
| 14 | In order to understand how such a theory might be constructed we should begin by recognizing that social movements are essentially a phenomenon of modern societies . |
| 15 | Saunders 's work offers an example of how such a combination might be effected . |
| 16 | It comes from knowing that no matter how intense a pain might be or our sorrow or our anxiousness , that Jesus Christ is the ultimate victor . |
| 17 | ‘ In the second place , quite frankly , we have never envisaged a situation where such a possibility might arise . |
| 18 | It was reassuring to hear of another life that had gone wrong , to be reminded that , however successful a person might seem , things were n't always easy . |
| 19 | This led to a reappraisal by the Euro-currency markets and banks-of their exposure to borrowers in the non-industrialized world , carrying With it the danger that attitudes could swing too far in the opposite direction and that too restrictive a stance might jeopardize international trade and economic growth . |
| 20 | It was thought by some that too great a burden might be placed on principals in smaller firms or on sole practitioners if such a proposal were made mandatory , and that either the ‘ net ’ of suitable signatories should be widened to include assistant solicitors or Fellows of ILEX , or that the category of undertaking to which the ‘ rule ’ might apply should exclude those of a routine or non-financial nature . |