Example sentences of "[adj] might [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | An alternative very different conclusion which some might draw from the method of isolation is that only some vast whole like that of planet earth and all life on it at large can have intrinsic value . |
2 | Whilst some might quibble with the second part of that statement , who could argue with the first ? |
3 | This might lead to the assumption that they are less sensitive to others ' misunderstanding than are adults . |
4 | This might appear on the surface the most neutral formulation — there were unarguably three distinct times of battles in 1642–6 , 1648 , and 1650–1 — but it also elides the establishment of parliamentary authority and later Cromwell 's Protectorate . |
5 | The one exception to this is teachers , and this might result from the fact that many education authorities ( teachers ' employers ) give all part-time teachers temporary contracts . |
6 | They were , and are , especially concerned about what this might mean for the rights to be enjoyed in their country by an ever growing number of Germans who have bought property in the south of Denmark . |
7 | Some support for this might come from the archaeological evidence , which attests Kenchester 's increasing importance through time . |
8 | If the molecules were some part of the chromosomes , this might account for the many nuclear changes which had been observed . |
9 | This might dispose of the need to relocate . |
10 | This might seem like the end of a successful story , but far from it ! |
11 | This might fall to the college itself , to the local Chamber of Commerce or , more likely , to the Training and Enterprise Council ( TEC ) . |
12 | The high figure from the farm was due to government support and this might fall in the near future . |
13 | A question asked early in the interview may affect answers to subsequent questions , and if this order were to be altered it becomes difficult to detect the effect this might have on the replies . |
14 | A severe critic of the statutes of 1861 might respond to the question " Why did Alexander II free the serfs ? " by saying that he failed to do so . |
15 | That might seem like the wackiest of wacky ideas but it becomes ever more fascinating as it is explored in a barrage of speculation , invective and anecdotes , all designed to prove that money , in a practical rather than puritanical sense , is the root of all evil . |
16 | Now , that might seem like the kind of high falutin ’ ideology to which most businesses aspire . |
17 | Had you thought about how that might look in the public prints ? |
18 | However desirable , that might fly in the face of everything the 1984 decree was about . |
19 | That might work with the philosophe who put together the doctrine in the first place but it is unlikely to work with a follower who is able to live with all sons of inconsistencies so long as a few slogans can be repeated again and again . |
20 | Qualifying support was therefore altered to 50 town councillors only , of which a maximum of 10 might come from the same region . |
21 | In summing up on this ideas section , we seem to be moving towards advocating that you : ( i ) fix on some aims or targets or intentions ( ii ) decide how these might relate to the actions and behaviour of pupils and teachers ( iii ) try to produce a teaching unit that is illustrative of these intentions and that strives towards promoting some of the desired behaviour ( iv ) report back on the actual relationship between the intentions and the behaviour . |
22 | The negotiators agreed to meet again before the end of November , and although no date was arranged for the holding of full normalization talks , it was suggested that these might begin before the end of 1990 . |
23 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
24 | 1986 ) , and whilst most social workers would accept this need , the sense of failure which surrounds admissions , compounded by the instigation of compulsory measures of care , depletes any expectation that good might come from the admission . |
25 | But , alternatively , assuming that this was not so , and that the instrument did not cease to be a negotiable instrument , then , in my judgment , from the moment when the draft sent by Sir Richard Temple was cashed by the plaintiffs a trust was created as between Sir Richard Temple and the moneylenders in favour of the former , so that any money which the latter might receive upon the promissory note , if they did receive any , would be held by them in trust for him . … |
26 | Therefore additional effects of cisapride on gastrooesophageal motility such as an improvement of lower oesophageal sphincter function and an acceleration of gastric emptying might contribute to the reduction in acid reflux . |
27 | Whatever one might think about the virtues or otherwise of nuclear energy , clearly it is a viable source of base load electricity for the future . |
28 | ( One might argue against the concept of ‘ right-minded persons ’ , which moves away from a statistical concept such as ‘ most people ’ or ‘ the ordinary citizen ’ and seems to seek a moral plane which is ‘ right-minded ’ , a question-begging approach in this context . ) |
29 | We saw earlier that such a relationship of passive dependency on a parental power perceived as essentially paternal might account for the undoubted paranoid elements which emerge along with the megalomania of the divine monarchs — itself the paranoid equivalent of depressive mania . |