Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formation of such complexes might prevent the viral genes from being replicated , or from being used to direct the manufacture of viral proteins . |
| 2 | Mr Lenarduzzi 's sleep is also disturbed by the thought that the interests of the nation may only be served at the expense of local needs or , indeed , that purely academic considerations might distort the wider implications of a proper education . |
| 3 | An analysis of the traditional functions of heads might produce the following list : |
| 4 | He thought of Fantina 's little face , and groaned that her eyes might see the sordid , futile world that he had to enter to work and survive . |
| 5 | After initially welcoming this movement , Plekhanov , Lenin and other ‘ orthodox ’ Social Democrats became afraid that concentration on immediate economic goals might lead the emergent labour movement to become preoccupied with merely economic rather than political goals . |
| 6 | The 1986 NACAB AGM overwhelmingly passed a resolution expressing concern that the proposals might change the fundamental character of the CAB service and might prejudice its independence , would cut legal services and reduce freedom of choice of legal service to the poor and would damage working relationships between CABx and legal aid practitioners , other advice agencies and law centres . |
| 7 | Sadly , unscrupulous ski resorts might misuse the new polymer , surreptitiously dusting it on the slopes of their rivals . |
| 8 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 9 | Calculating that the kidnappers might use the same initial rendezvous , Zen had informed Bartocci , who had authorized a phone-tap . |
| 10 | The motivation for our search was to see how signs might support the spoken message in schools , how deaf children could be given the benefit of the happy accident which allowed two modalities to be used simultaneously to present two languages . |
| 11 | Readers of Rupert Murdoch 's papers in different continents might read the same syndicated articles . |
| 12 | First , the banning of imports might land the Labour Government in the future in front of a European court and , secondly of course , if the Labour Government attempted to use their 40 per cent . |
| 13 | For many visitors to the country the stations might present the main opportunity to see apartheid in action . |
| 14 | ‘ In its report published yesterday , the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice said that giving solicitors advocacy rights might improve the overall quality of advocacy in the Crown Court . |
| 15 | Real owners might do the same thing but perhaps end up in a Relais & Chateaux hotel rather than the Place d'Italie . |
| 16 | Indeed the hope of eternal life was thought socially important as a sanction , as the authors imply but do not quite state : the prospect of endless rewards and punishments might bring the wicked to their senses . |
| 17 | Investors watch exchange rates closely , because they calculate their profits in their home currency , and because they must assess how changes might affect the future international competitiveness of local output . |
| 18 | Doi was known to have wanted to field at least 180 JSP candidates but was opposed by many local party organizations on the grounds that having more than one JSP candidate in each of the country 's 130 multi-member constituencies might split the socialist vote and endanger the position of JSP incumbents . |
| 19 | The tremendous variation in the experiences of First , Second and Third World countries in terms of income , population , foreign trade , resources , quality of life and blocs might lead the faint-hearted to conclude that the global system either does not exist or that it is so hopelessly complex that there is no point in trying to conceptualize it at all . |
| 20 | Florida protested that lower river levels might upset the delicate ecology of Apalachicola bay , and sink the area 's oyster industry . |
| 21 | Though enlightened Spaniards might detest the brutal deceit of Napoleon 's seizure of Spain they felt that perhaps he alone could regenerate her . |
| 22 | The enhanced synthesis of PGE 2 seen in patients taking NSAIDs and infected with Helicobacter pylori might mediate the increased dyspapsia that characterises these patients . |
| 23 | Listed building procedures might impede the full commercial realisation of the site when the electricity industry is privatised . |
| 24 | Linguists , psychologists and AI workers have theories about what procedures might select the right sense on the basis of sensible rules and reject the wrong one . |
| 25 | Some critics might favour the pragmatic solution of convicting both , to ensure that the guilty party does not escape justice . |
| 26 | What physical processes might explain the dividing line ? |
| 27 | A varied menu of ‘ survey ’ courses , ‘ normal ’ courses and ‘ in-depth ’ courses might meet the conflicting demands of breadth and depth . |
| 28 | Partnerships might consider the relative advantages and disadvantages of examination and record of achievement systems in terms of their cost-effectiveness , their reliability and breadth of application , their influence upon the curriculum , and on the teaching and learning time they consume . |
| 29 | By contrast , neither party has any desire to suggest that men might do the same thing . |
| 30 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |