Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the hood down my summer sun bleached hair might give the wrong message ? |
| 2 | An officer with private income might find the half-pay given to those no longer employed in active units an agreeable augmentation of his resources , which he might be content to draw for the remainder of his life . |
| 3 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 4 | At the same time , the top management might find the organisation so large and complex , and changes in policy and procedures so difficult and time-consuming to implement , that they also feel unable to give direction to the organisation . |
| 5 | Roberts 's discovery was made in 1951 and gave a considerable boost to the research of Prof J Z Young , the celebrated brain expert , who had suggested that some kind of electronic machine might solve the cell counting problem . |
| 6 | He feared that " gasps , giggling and comment " from the press bench and the public gallery might distract the jurors from their solemn duty . |
| 7 | One must remember that these were times when each crew had to find their own way to the target , nearly always having to use dead reckoning to do so , and when moonlight or a fortuitous flare might illuminate the target . |
| 8 | It doubted if the British could hold even the line of the Suez canal against a Soviet attack , while their own conduct and historical record might jeopardize the position behind them . |
| 9 | The equations that define the and curves are important because they explain how fiscal policy might affect the level of output in an economy . |
| 10 | Mr. Speaker : I think that the Hon. Member might start the round robin . |
| 11 | It is hoped that the British unit might do the same . |
| 12 | The free market might provide the only politically-realistic model in which economic change can occur , but it still requires the tightest of legal and administrative controls . |
| 13 | In the same way a late Roman coin might have the mint mark LON standing for Londinium , the short-lived Roman mint at London which operated between AD286 and 326 . |
| 14 | A storm or violent gale might disperse the combined fleets ; France has no port in the Channel ; in fact , innumerable mischances might ruin the enterprise . |
| 15 | Officials hope that an early announcement might calm the soldiers . |
| 16 | Companies raising private finance to build a toll road would probably need to offer at least 9–10% , given that many investors want compensation against the risk that a future government might expropriate the project or regulate it into unprofitability . |
| 17 | James Bond in real life might pull the women but he would n't pull many spies . ’ |
| 18 | The reason why Hope should advocate Scott in particular , when a limited competition might give the ecclesiologically sounder Street the work , may have been that Scott was more likely to carry out the work successfully . |
| 19 | A typical CBA might produce the ( summarized ) results shown in table 5.4 . |
| 20 | Therefore , the central domain might provide the protein with the ability to form the tetrameric self-aggregate seen with native HeLa TFIIF ( 24 ) . |
| 21 | A common official language might hasten the pace of integration for a nation burdened with India 's diversity . |
| 22 | Insulin resistance ( which is clearly associated with abnormal fat distribution or obesity ) at an early stage might increase the androgenic microenvironment of the follicle thus decreasing oocyte quality and the chance of conceiving before androgen levels are raised in serum and before cycles become irregular . |
| 23 | As any retinue would be under the command of the prince 's governor , earl Rivers , a large force might tilt the balance of power too far in the Woodvilles ' favour . |
| 24 | As any retinue would be under the command of the prince 's governor , earl Rivers , a large force might tilt the balance of power too far in the Woodvilles ' favour . |
| 25 | A lucky stalwart might gain the patronage of some powerful upper-hab clan or even of a noble . |
| 26 | The coroner himself conceded that the intervention of a wholly unexpected and exceptional circumstance might make the death ‘ unnatural . ’ |
| 27 | The Bosnian war might undermine the UN peacekeeping operation in Croatia and rekindle the flames there . |
| 28 | A better understanding of duodenal ulcer might confer the avility to predict risk , to identify resistant ulcers before months or years of ineffective therapy have made them apparent , and to develop new means of treatment . |
| 29 | He believed that a generous gesture by Israel to accept back a large number might break the impasse , and generate an atmosphere conducive to an overall settlement . |
| 30 | Fearing that a weak German left flank might enable the French to invade the Fatherland ( which Schlieffen had been prepared temporarily to tolerate ) , Moltke allocated eight of his nine new divisions to the left flank and added only one to the right — precisely the reverse of what Schlieffen had intended . |