Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who knows whether our success or failure might bring the prophecies about ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You want to watch out , or people might get the wrong idea about you . ’ |
| 3 | All 21 members of the Arab League sent representatives to a meeting of its council in Cairo on March 30 , confounding expectations that Iraq or others might boycott the session . |
| 4 | This assumption allows Lucas to measure as the deviation of actual real output , from the value predicted from a regression of on a constant and time ( where time might take the value of 1 in the first year of the data period , 2 in the second and so on ) . |
| 5 | There was a momentary scare that Tranmere might snatch the lead just before the break when Aldridge , scorer of 38 goals this season , had a shot-on-the-turn blocked by a defender . |
| 6 | These activities reinforced the general fear that apathy might cause the poll to be unduly low which it was thought would be a greater handicap to SDLP than to other parties . |
| 7 | Fearing that Germany might win the race to develop this weapon , the US government set up the Manhattan Project , costing $2 billion and involving some 150 000 people , including most of the world 's most outstanding physicists . |
| 8 | But just a few miles away from where Jilly Cooper lives is a REAL hamlet called Paradise , and villagers there are worried that readers might think the book is based on them . |
| 9 | These results give rise to the hypothesis that endothelin might increase the tissue type plasminogen activator activity accompanying the gastric mucosal injury . |
| 10 | As yet , no definitive decision has been made as to the microkernel that will be used for new versions of OS/2 , though developers are known to be working with the Carnegie-Mellon University 's Mach 3 microkernel ; in addition , there is the possibility that IBM might use the NT kernel — ‘ we could use the NT microkernel if we wanted to ’ , it said . |
| 11 | Ferry traffic was halted for a week in December because of fears that refugees might hijack the vessel to the United States . |
| 12 | Alt 's book on The Politics of Economic Decline has explored the nature of political business cycles in Britain alone and has dealt with the possibility that governments might run the economy to their own electoral advantage through manipulating the rate of inflation , disposable incomes , and unemployment in such a way as to rally short-run popular support at election time . |
| 13 | In group therapy , I suggested that Matthew might re-play the final scene from his marriage , as if he were someone who expressed anger openly . |
| 14 | The immediate impulse was the prospect which arose in the 1830s that Canada might go the same way of rebellion as the American colonies . |
| 15 | That evening a knock — furtive and hasty , telling Alice who it was — brought her out to find Monica on the path near the gate , not outside the door , for the girl had been afraid that Faye might open the door . |
| 16 | Joan Bohanna was worried that Pilger might use the paper to say what he , rather than they , wanted . |
| 17 | This raised the prospect that Yeltsin might use the Russian presidency as an ultra-reformist power base from which to challenge Gorbachev 's authority , making Russia a new element of instability in the already crisis-ridden Soviet Union . |
| 18 | She wondered how long it would be before Kathy grew alarmed If Clare was n't home and had n't telephoned by two o'clock — or three at the latest — she reckoned that Kathy might phone the police , who would surely find her before long . |
| 19 | Leopold 's fear , on the other hand , was that Mozart might lose the appointment in Salzburg and with it the chance to begin paying off the debts . |
| 20 | No , television advertising of beer should be stopped because the regulations surrounding it ( do n't show excessive drinking , do n't associate drinking with social or sexual success , do n't even hint that people might enjoy the sensation of being just a little bit , no , do n't even say the word , drunk ) have led to a series of creative executions that wander around aimlessly avoiding the subject of beer altogether , until the very end when they name it , or maybe not . |
| 21 | It was tempting to consider asking Bill himself to share the stage , but the consensus of opinion was that people might find the combination a little ghostly , a little too reminiscent , when all along my instinct was to convey the spirit and feeling of Grenfell , without resorting to mimicry . |
| 22 | House of Representatives and Senate Democratic leaders intentionally delayed sending the bill to the White House prior to the election after some Democrats and special-interest groups became convinced that Bush might sign the bill once free of campaign pressures . |
| 23 | Not all could , or would , do this but , even if they did , the problem that patients might choose the type of food because of habit rather than careful deliberation still exists . |
| 24 | The defendants are an authorised institution under the Act , and are anxious to comply with the section 39 notice , but are concerned that compliance might breach the terms of the injunction . |
| 25 | Two days previously an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman had told the Sunday Times that Iran might revoke the decree if the UK " declared respect for Islam " ; this was described by the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on June 5 as " a very significant olive branch " from Iran . |
| 26 | And it is here , of course , that an educational orientation is required in order that teachers might enact the role of mediator along the lines 1 have been proposing . |
| 27 | We therefore suggested that PYY might mediate the bile inhibition of ileal motility . |
| 28 | 4 Regulatory bodies , which can pre-censor material whenever there is a possibility that transmission might infringe the law . |
| 29 | By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing . |
| 30 | Relations with Turkey had been strained since Oct. 1 , 1989 when the Turkish President , Turgut Ozal ( at the time Prime Minister ) , hinted that Turkey might reduce the flow of the Euphrates River if Syria failed to curb the attacks on Turkey by Kurdish separatists from Syrian-occupied eastern Lebanon . |