Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [pers pn] might [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , you see , a lot of the er the English scriptures talk about the , the paradise in , in its right context , you can just examine the , the , the Christian script which you might get confused because there 's a lot of er things that can take them both ways |
| 2 | Each of them might have engaged a separate average adjuster to advise him : had these not agreed , a dispute could have arisen between the parties which they might have submitted to arbitrationa somewhat unusual course in business of this kind . |
| 3 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |
| 4 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 5 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 6 | First , there are things which might or would have happened as consequences of some other action which he might have done instead . |
| 7 | Mill wanted to protect children against the harm which they might do themselves . |
| 8 | Our purpose is not to define a basic library for you , but rather to suggest kinds of books which you might look for ; and our choice of texts is based primarily on their convenience as illustrations . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) Choose one literary text which you might work on which is representative , plus one which is well-known , plus one which is neglected ( see 2.1 ) . |
| 10 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 11 | ‘ A mahogany dining table will last a lifetime , not like a car or a three-piece suite which you might throw away after five or six years , ’ he added . |
| 12 | There are seldom any references to co-curricular activities and the important part which they might play in the whole curriculum of a school . |
| 13 | It emphasised that there were men , in both France and England , who understood the role of the sea in war and of the part which it might play in determining the outcome of future English expeditions to France . |
| 14 | The term " donor " , for example , is specific to a genre which we might call " writing about narrative in a tradition following Vladimir Propp " ; and the term " the Imaginary " is specific to the genre " recent psychoanalytically-influenced criticism " . |
| 15 | On the basis of experience then , we recognise types of communicative events which take place against the background of a mass of below-conscious expectations also based on past experience which we might summarise , following van Dijk ( 1977 : 99 ) , as ‘ the ASSUMED NORMALITY of the world . |
| 16 | As I have already indicated , there are broadly speaking two kinds of insight of potential relevance to language teaching which we might expect linguistics to provide . |
| 17 | Wilson was obviously embarrassed by my statement and sought to identify any particular honorands whom I might have in mind . |
| 18 | Look at everything around you ; be aware of the weather ; listen to any noises which you might hear . |
| 19 | But once we add this functional criterion we create a different problem : sometimes non-governmental bodies perform functions which we might consider to be governmental ( or ‘ public ’ ) in nature ( or , in other words , most appropriately conducted by government ) . |
| 20 | Other objectives include " promotion of correct library behaviour " , coordinating the library 's work with that of county providers and ensuring " that staff are helped to relate Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers to those subject areas which they might require pupils to research or refer to " ( Proposal document ) . |
| 21 | Alix , who had no idea of what the gossip was to be about , but who could sense its ominous crackling in the distance , wanted to go home , but tiresomely Brian , the party-hater , had managed to find his old friend Otto Werner and was deep in conversation about English social class , European intellectuals , the German education system , public schools , and the appointing of JPs and magistrates , a rich vein which they might have been able to explore for another hour at least , had Alix not been at their elbow , murmuring of departure . |
| 22 | In these circumstances to talk of the inner city may be to accept a vocabulary which we might prefer not to endorse but it might also use the only language in which we can be heard . |
| 23 | Er I mean that goes back again to the articles which you might have about the way that parents talk to their children , and you quite often find that then very very quickly the children grow up speaking in a same way as the parent of that sex talked to the them . |
| 24 | Eadmer gives a curiously confused account of Anselm 's motives at this time , but one thing stands out clearly : Anselm would not bring about the chaos in personal relationships and conflict of obligations which he might find himself obliged to precipitate if he read the letter . |
| 25 | ‘ And if you could meet Swire Sugden yourself he might listen to you being an honourable an' all that , ’ said Otley to my amazement , I never knew he was a royalist . |
| 26 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 27 | The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages . |
| 28 | It does not require that the woman be able to appreciate the significance of sexual intercourse or the implications which it might have for her . |
| 29 | Another aspect of organisations which you might have discovered is that organisations are constantly changing . |
| 30 | ‘ There are two angles which you might look at , young Chris , ’ he said as I refilled his glass . |