Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , as an astrochemist I might regret the absence of a discussion of chemistry in the early universe which — it appears — may determine whether collapsing masses form protogalaxies , protoclusters , or protostars . |
| 2 | Any Inland Revenue concessions or practice statements relied on should be identified and care taken to be aware of any changes in the law or practice which might affect the buy-out . |
| 3 | They should consider alternative courses of action which might remove the cause of the request , e.g : |
| 4 | At the very least , a manufacturer should be constantly watching for such developments in the industry which might shift the threshold of the expectation of safety . |
| 5 | If you crick your neck you might spot the odd bald patch , too ! |
| 6 | No but I 'll , if I say it on every tape she might get the hint . |
| 7 | She raised a hand to touch the place , as if by such an action she might capture the feeling forever . |
| 8 | For example in trying to increase the fuel efficiency of a car we might create the following sub-problems : better fuel consumption in the cylinder ; better timing of ignition ; use of exhaust gas heat ; reduction of weight of body ; less fuel consumption for air conditioners etc . |
| 9 | He said a skilled and ethical therapist would resist such an advance , knowing the harm it might cause the patient . |
| 10 | As ICI struggles in the current climate to maintain its investment programme it might find the two thoughts sitting uncomfortably together . |
| 11 | With a little more coaching he might get the knack . |
| 12 | This move hindered subsequent investigation into Bloody Sunday and nullified further criticism of the Army — largely because the government 's Press Office appealed for the suspension of any media coverage which might prejudice the Tribunal 's findings . |
| 13 | He did n't want to drag them , because even though it would give him more room there would be a risk of noise which might attract the attention of the housekeeper . |
| 14 | The research assesses the impact of European law which might constrain the national policy makers but might also provide industry with a means of challenging national policies which contravene European law . |
| 15 | As for the game itself , Hare has a philosophy which might make the rest of us win . |
| 16 | As for the game itself , Hare has a philosophy which might make the rest of us win . |
| 17 | He looked , Toby thought , the kind of boy who might play the passive role in some bent porno film — and , indeed , were he asked , Hilary Frome would certainly have been willing . |
| 18 | If a mass of hot and a mass of cold gas were brought together , then it was very highly improbable that they would not mix and give a uniformly warm mixture ; but there was a small probability , and Maxwell imagined a demon who might assist the process , that the warm gas might separate out into a hot and a cold portion , in defiance of the Second Law . |
| 19 | For example , in the laboratory , experimental subjects might be asked to role-play in hypothetical future situations , in order to discover under what types of circumstance they might Take the Role of the Other . |
| 20 | WITH A NAME like Hamid Dastmalchi you might think the new world poker champion is a Middle Easterner — maybe an Iranian like Mansour Matloubi , the Cardiff-based player who won the title two years ago . |
| 21 | The OPEC president , Sadek Boussena of Algeria , resisted the idea of a formal conference which might split the organization , but held talks in Vienna from Aug. 27 , involving those ministers who might decide to attend ( in the event , all except those of Iraq and Libya ) . |
| 22 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 23 | Anything of any sort which might rock the world , her world , and her thoughts flew to the cradle . |
| 24 | Pray heaven she might find the courage to endure the horrors that must lie in store ! |
| 25 | Out of a thousand possible illustrations of this point one might cite the testimony of William Smith the nineteenth-century publisher , on his first reading of the manuscript of Charlotte Bronte 's Jane Eyre . |
| 26 | On a very literal level this is true , and at this point one might compare the ‘ obvious moral ’ of The Ancient Mariner : |
| 27 | In this second category we might place the first seventeen sonnets , with their persuasion to marriage , a sequence that may in fact draw some of its arguments and images from a model epistle , Erasmus 's Encomium Matrimonii , Englished by Sir Thomas Wilson as An Epistle to perswade a yong Gentleman to mariage , devised by Erasmus , in the behalfe of his freend . |
| 28 | I only have the small size winder , perhaps one day I might get the larger size ; I bought it from PDB Engineering . |
| 29 | Such exclusivity was viewed with horror by mainstream credal Calvinists such as Whitgift , who saw in such elitism the seeds of a subversive and divisive separatism which might threaten the very existence of a national church . |
| 30 | In the late Thirties , in that period which he described as more " moral " , he had affirmed the need for something very like a Christian revolution which might alter the structure . |