Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [vb infin] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the sort of thing you might collect from the House of Commons particularly during a er big debate . |
| 2 | Well , as you might tell from the title , Gandhi 's Truth is the exact opposite to book , because it idealizes Gandhi , it makes a , a kind of psychoanalytic behaviourography , you know as if Gandhi was some er , great great kind of saint . |
| 3 | They were afraid you might think from the way we said it that they were behind . |
| 4 | As you might expect from the name , these latter animals have tentacles arranged in multiples of eight per polyp . |
| 5 | The wholly negative tone of the passage is only what we might expect from the rest of the chapter . |
| 6 | The Saturday Review described the scheme as the ‘ sort of meagre and crude distribution of all the allotted space — and of a great deal more besides — into parallelograms , which we might expect from the speculative projector of Great Franklin Pierce City , Nebraska ’ . |
| 7 | What Smith does n't make clear is how we might get from the present destructive spiral to the moneyless system he advocates . |
| 8 | Fears were also expressed by some passengers that the tunnel might collapse while they were travelling through it or that they might suffocate from the lack of air because it was one and three quarter miles long ! |
| 9 | By such a route they might escape from the niches of their birth , and gain access to something better — to better weapons , possibly to some real food different from synthcake and synthgruel . |
| 10 | Branded items like Prize Grills , described as ‘ pure ground beef with a hint of seasoning ’ or ‘ two pieces of southern fried chicken ’ were not all they might seem from the packet descriptions , the prosecution alleged . |
| 11 | When it comes to joining groups , they weigh up the personal benefits they might receive from the existence of a successful group protecting the interest they share with others . |
| 12 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 13 | In fact , because it is not known , it might detract from the paper 's persuasiveness . ’ |
| 14 | The proposition that fax was invented by a Scot in the middle of the 19th century sounds rather as if it might come from the repertoire of E. L. Wisty , a companion piece to such wisdoms as " Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci invented the compact disc ? " |
| 15 | This is all much more simple than it might seem from the previous , necessarily precise , rules . |
| 16 | He might rise from the grave in the churchyard and appear in this room ! |