Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the head and the DCSL freely acknowledged that these developments were undertaken in the light of knowledge that a library project existed , and that schools might stand a better chance of securing a grant if they could show evidence of commitment to enhanced library provision . |
| 2 | The Second Law of Thermodynamics thus constrains the designer of engines ; he wants high efficiency but he also has to think about speed and price , and a whole range of possible designs might suit a particular case : the law does not require a unique solution . |
| 3 | There seemed to be two areas of subject-matter where quadraphonics might have an artistic advantage , drama and wildlife recording , so it seemed very sensible when the first ‘ quadraphonic ’ record of birdsong was announced . |
| 4 | Study of these alternative future sequences might show a particular tendency , with one type of pattern being more prevalent ( and hence more likely ) than others . |
| 5 | The formation of such complexes might prevent the viral genes from being replicated , or from being used to direct the manufacture of viral proteins . |
| 6 | It seems that some of these proteins might have a significant part to play in the treatment of nerve injury , neuropathies and tumours of glial cell origin . |
| 7 | The sodium and calcium cations , Na+ and Ca2+ , would loosely bond to these oxygens occupying occasional holes and voids in the glass-forming network ; that the modifying cations might have a well-defined local structure was all but ruled out . |
| 8 | None of us , for example , would subscribe to belief in strict materialism in theory , but a searching look at our homes and our lifestyles might tell a different story . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Amongst liberals , there has been a tendency to believe that remedying the gender imbalances in these books might have a positive influence on girls ' educational achievement . |
| 11 | An analysis of the traditional functions of heads might produce the following list : |
| 12 | A further strike could be a different situation because it will be a normal weekday and drivers might get a false sense of security . |
| 13 | It may be that we can seek help from what to some of my readers might seem an unlikely source . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Sadly , unscrupulous ski resorts might misuse the new polymer , surreptitiously dusting it on the slopes of their rivals . |
| 18 | Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The fairly consistent findings of an increased relative risk associated with OC use while young on breast cancer at young ages might portend a changing risk with age of diagnosis in any direction : increasing , level , or decreasing . |
| 21 | The Royal College of Nursing has expressed its particular concern that trust employers might offer a poor deal to nurses who want to undertake training courses . |
| 22 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 23 | Calculating that the kidnappers might use the same initial rendezvous , Zen had informed Bartocci , who had authorized a phone-tap . |
| 24 | But some creditors might prefer a bigger pay-out sooner to financing a risky and expensive test-case . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | So that 's why their policies might seem a little bit wishy-washy in that how that if they were going straight for a rich peasant economy then perhaps you would have expected a more spectacular economic growth , but there was n't and perhaps this was because they did n't actually go positively just for a rich peasant economy , they were trying to achieve a greater degree of erm egalitarianism in the countryside at the same time . |
| 27 | Readers of Rupert Murdoch 's papers in different continents might read the same syndicated articles . |
| 28 | Such reasons might include a governing body disregarding LEA advice that dismissal would be likely to be found unfair before an industrial tribunal : or a governing body determining payments to departing members of staff which were in excess of the LEA 's own practice . |
| 29 | A thematic optional unit which spans two different periods might offer a valuable bridge between two core units . |
| 30 | A significant difference between the LVF and RVF on " same " trials might imply a faster rate and/or greater magnitude of adaptation in one visual hemifield . |