Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] might [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , the tendency of a stimulus to evoke an appetitively conditioned response might directly influence the level of responding shown to this stimulus during conditioned suppression training and testing . |
| 2 | And do n't forget , Roger , ’ Benjamin added , ‘ with the window slamming shut , the inside latch might just have fallen into place . ’ |
| 3 | He felt suddenly angry with Maud , who was standing stock still , in the dark , not moving a finger to help him , not urging , as she with her emotional advantage might well have done , further exploration of hidden treasures or pathetic dead caskets . |
| 4 | The fact that the Greens ' ‘ Europe of the Regions ’ is little more than a nostalgic fantasy and their economic policies might rapidly place even organic small-holders in the same income bracket as Third World peasants was not important . |
| 5 | So the ministers in charge of the measure felt they could not bring in a guillotine or send the bill to a committee upstairs because most of the Conservatives would have voted against and , not being an issue of confidence between the parties , sufficient Labour dissidents might also have voted against the government to leave it in a minority . |
| 6 | If anything , by the end of the nineteenth century it was the expanding Polish population of the partition areas that needed living space , and the German Ostflucht might well have given it to them had it not been that Germany desperately needed to maintain the spluttering fiction of the drive to the east to divert and subvert internal political pressures . |
| 7 | A director other than Browne might have given more theatrical conviction to the Furies , as other more recent productions have done , and a more enthusiastic public response might then have persuaded Eliot to continue with his exploration of symbolist drama . |
| 8 | It should be stressed again , however , that although a specialized function might well exist , many small towns ultimately came to possess a range of functions , not least those which were most conveniently placed to exploit their full urban potential . |
| 9 | A complete block on foreign investment might well have resulted in less investment overall ; and the fact that so much was financed by overseas borrowing is of particular significance here . |
| 10 | ‘ In the present spirit of the age , ’ Surtees replied with a sidelong glance at Catherine , ‘ more generous provision from the public purse might even lead to a proliferation of bastardy . |
| 11 | Off road , where a bunch of still angry Scottish journalists might still feel so angry towards Chrysler that they would push the instructor in the lead vehicle far faster than he might prefer to go , the Wrangler can also hack it . |
| 12 | The first Danish referendum showed the currency markets that the treaty 's goal of economic and monetary union ( EMU ) was far from assured and that the ERM 's five-year old parities might well change . |
| 13 | For example , a player whose regular opponent fields High Elves might wisely decide to abandon any attempt to out-shoot his enemies in favour of a fast , hard-hitting attack force combined with long range artillery . |
| 14 | This was the case sometimes in classical antiquity — for example , in Egypt in the third century BC or the Roman empire during the late fourth century AD and generally in most late medieval societies , when mints in different countries might even compete by offering better terms . |
| 15 | Given that cases involving the exercise of public functions might also raise issues of private law , it should be made clear that the court hearing an application under public law procedure is to decide all issues raised by the case , whether of public law or private law . |
| 16 | Indeed it seemed to some that scientific investigation might even bring to light all that was worthwhile in religion . |
| 17 | Apart from rendering patients asymptomatic , earlier treatment with a gluten free diet might also protect them from developing malignant complications in old age . |
| 18 | It is admitted that the gradings assigned to the respective countries have been done on a subjective basis and that different observers might well have come up with somewhat different rankings . |
| 19 | To the new generation of Romantics he appeared to have become a fossilized appendage of a backward-looking Establishment , which was already , in 1815 , in the process of restoring the eighteenth-century dynasties to the thrones of Europe , so that the French Revolution might never have taken place . |
| 20 | But Robson tells the stories sparingly and in many cases adds modern twists as a sort of verification that age old phantoms might still exist . |
| 21 | So a self-conscious pragmatist might well decide cases in ways , and even in words , that are familiar to us . |
| 22 | Valorous actions might sometimes result in a small award from a philanthropic organization , but generally received minimal recognition . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman might also bear in mind the fact that his party should take account of many of the dangers of what is proposed , for at the moment the Liberal Democrats seem prepared to sign up indiscriminately to what is proposed from anywhere within Europe . |
| 24 | What the right hon. Gentleman might also have fastened his mind upon is the fact that reported job vacancies are rising , that the number of people placed in jobs is rising and that there are 500,000 more people in work than in 1979 . |
| 25 | U From Back Page might even have got us a goal . ’ |
| 26 | There is sufficient evidence to suggest , however , that Jacobite disaffection might commonly have arisen out of dissatisfaction with William . |
| 27 | International financial markets experienced a period of considerable turbulence in the autumn of 1991 , as uncertainties grew about the sustainability of the recovery in the United States economy , and as fears were expressed that the German economy might also face intractable difficulties in meeting the costs of unification . |
| 28 | Similarly , equalisation of wage rates or attempts to impose common conditions in labour markets through mechanisms such as the Social Charter might also have this same effect ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 29 | If the very wide construction of clause 12 were right , questions of public policy might well arise . |
| 30 | Public policy might also require the exclusion or exceptional treatment of certain ‘ disabilities ’ , such as alcoholism , drug dependence and contagious diseases . |