Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 2 | Readers of Rupert Murdoch 's papers in different continents might read the same syndicated articles . |
| 3 | Non-believers and doubtless some believers might regard the threat of violation of the daughter 's person as preferable to the daughter 's death . |
| 4 | The Arab rising there had been suppressed in the newspapers , so that the French troops might claim the honour of its liberation from the Turks . ’ |
| 5 | A few ghosts might lift the scales from the eyes of the Court of the Bank . |
| 6 | Fleets of modern day replicas of those old boats might grace the waters of the Firth of Clyde yet . |
| 7 | as if to emphasise the relative longevity of this sequence , however , it is also possible that some mosaics might pre-date the sequences of simple geometric and Orphic pavements . |
| 8 | ‘ Some players might recognise the signs and start to wind down , ’ said Hill , ‘ but I am not one of them . |
| 9 | Some critics might favour the pragmatic solution of convicting both , to ensure that the guilty party does not escape justice . |
| 10 | Thrombolytic agents might reduce the stimulus to remodelling by limiting infarct size and augmenting blood flow to additional jeopardised zones . |
| 11 | Different records might call the same man husbandman and yeoman , but as he progressed , the latter description would be used with increasing consistency . |
| 12 | I think , I mean some unions might want the branch secretaries but some might want all branch officials , some might want all shop stewards or senior shop stewards or convenors or whatever terminology we have , have in the respective unions for , for their positions . |
| 13 | The Soviet Foreign Minister left no doubt about his concern that some West German politicians might compromise the right of the GDR to self-determination by ‘ offering prescriptions as to how and when to change the GDR system ’ . |
| 14 | They suggested that the repeated occurrence of similar losses might increase the likelihood of believing oneself to blame for the event . |
| 15 | Such variables might include the cost of capital , the interplay of corporate cash flow , the structure of the international competitive market , the uncertainties of Europe after 1992 , the future of Pacific Rim development , social developments with respect to labor , political developments in Eastern Europe , the Middle East , and the Third World , and technological research and change . |
| 16 | The formation of such complexes might prevent the viral genes from being replicated , or from being used to direct the manufacture of viral proteins . |
| 17 | Starfarers in less well-protected vessels might hear the scrabbling of claws upon their hulls , or wailing incoherent voices , lascivious enticements , rumblings of wrath . |
| 18 | Such advantages might include the concentration of people and therefore of a large market for consumer goods and services , the development of the area as the nodal point of the transport system , or the generation of a community of skilled workers and technical know-how . |
| 19 | Such things might influence the judges of my own country , where people still pretend to believe in the essential niceness of the human race — or at least pretend to pretend . |
| 20 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 21 | Such situations might include the routine repeat purchase of washing up liquid , sweets or cigarettes . |
| 22 | Such pre-conditions might include the verification of financial or other information relating to the target , or merger control authorities taking a certain course of action , or the target complying with its obligations under Rule 20.2 ( equality of information to a bona fide competing potential offeror ) . |
| 23 | For a glimpse of how composite materials might make the transition to mass production , you need to look at innovations like the VARI ( vacuum-assisted resin injection ) process developed by Lotus . |
| 24 | Interestingly , in our Hemingway passage , there are no definite articles conditioned by previous mention — although the mention of a father and six children might justify the use of the family . |
| 25 | Knowing that mere seconds might mean the difference between life and death for the hundreds of people trapped by the explosions , IMDEC responded immediately by setting up a citizens ' coordinating committee , drawing on the expertise and resources of 27 social and human rights organisations . |
| 26 | These doctors , unlike so many preregistration house officers , were not prepared to be walked over , and a campaign of industrial action — including the threat that future students might boycott the jobs at Southmead — led quickly to remedial action . |
| 27 | Another way in which the European Allies might find the money was to use German reparations payments ( CORE , pp. 5–6 ) . |
| 28 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 29 | The Collector fell silent , hoping that these words might bring the meeting to an end without leaving too great a schism between the two factions . |
| 30 | The third of these alternatives might indicate the initiation of translation is at Met163 ( nucleotide position 619 ) , because glycine at position 2 is a myristylation site found in src proteins . |