Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Londoners discovered that despite the dire predictions , the Scots might look a bit terrifying , but they were more interested in the goings-on at Wembley . |
| 2 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 3 | Even the heyday of tomb-robbing was over ; his scavenging could n't be called by such a piratical name and the local labourers could not be inspired to sift the soil scrupulously when they could break it with a pickaxe so much faster , and the mounted overseers might take a crack at them with a rifle butt if they dawdled . |
| 4 | The combined salaries of two or more such offices might keep a government supporter happy , while the sheriffship itself was a stepping stone to an appointment as a baron of exchequer or a lord of session , should the lawyer be well connected and joined to a strong political interest . |
| 5 | The intensity of their feeling was due not just to fear that the landed interest might suffer but to the affront caused to a governing class centred on London and the Home Counties by the notion that those living in the provinces might prefer a degree of local autonomy . |
| 6 | In a milder way , the doctrine of ministerial responsibility also inhibits the mass of able and highly trained and experienced civil servants from contributing fully in their own professional associations and academic conferences , in case their opinions or comments on their own work or methods might catch a headline or embarrass a minister . |
| 7 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 8 | Afternoon snacks might include a biscuit or a piece of cake . |
| 9 | Casual passers-by might take a look . |
| 10 | The Iranians might welcome a secession in Iraq 's south , especially if the Shias who detached themselves from Baghdad chose later to attach themselves to their co-religionists in Tehran . |
| 11 | A few shillings might represent a messuage or cottage with , perhaps , a little land attached ; alternatively it could be a small close or a croft . |
| 12 | In other words , three generations might take a family from hard toil through private education to gilt-edged respectability . |
| 13 | Citizens young and old laid bird traps , and 700,000 sparrows made the supreme sacrifice so that the down from their necks might pad a birthday quilt . |
| 14 | Training programmes might cost a county as much as £400 per annum in the 1580s and considerably more later . |
| 15 | His remarks were seen as a hint that the Conservatives might let a minority Government led by Mr Kinnock stay in office if it toned down its programme , rather than force an immediate second election . |
| 16 | Alison plans to vote Labour but thinks nationally the Conservatives might squeeze a victory on April 9 . |
| 17 | Partnership arrangements between a college and a company or companies might encompass a range of activities , including skills-updating courses , supervisory management and intensive language tuition for example , which fall outside the scope of this chapter because they do not impact directly upon the 16–19 age group . |
| 18 | In the latter part of the chapter we shall consider , at a deeper level , how accounting analyses might facilitate a cost-leadership strategy . |
| 19 | It is true that an inability to legislate upon certain matters might render a constitution prone to crisis but on others it would be far from necessarily fatal and at least one judge , in a common law country , has recently acceded to the proposition that he might be prepared to disavow the power of the otherwise unlimited New Zealand Parliament to enact law providing , for example , for human torture . |
| 20 | However , the only things which are spelt out are that development can not go on without them , the fact that new skills will be introduced and the fact that incomers might form a catalyst for the rejuvenation of local voluntary groups . |
| 21 | Some small groups within lineages might build a shrine at the burial place of a revered grandfather , call him sidi ( lord ) , and visit the shrine in a group from time to time . |
| 22 | SucH communities might provide a basis for a neighbourhood approach to management , or for some development of the parish council concept ( Boaden et al . |
| 23 | Any curtailment of such imports might damage a country 's export potential and economic development . |
| 24 | But Zimbabwe 's example , together with the hope that new seeds might make a difference to humid parts of the continent in the first half of the 1990s ( and to the Sahel in the second half of the decade ) , at least give us something to work for . |
| 25 | They feared that their troops might acquire a taste for such butchery and become no better than those they fought against . |
| 26 | To leave them as Cup-holders might require a miracle . |
| 27 | I had suggested that some of our guests might enjoy a post-wedding , post-reception , post-dinner nightcap in our hotel room . |
| 28 | A few hundred or a few thousand farmers might oppose a return to downland because it would mean lower profits . |
| 29 | If you know something about the deeper inner workings of computers then you can make use of this fact to guess what sort of things might cause a program some difficulties . |
| 30 | Less robust persons might need a siesta . |