Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Geary paused , as a musician might pause for a climax , while the water in her saucepan regained its just heat . |
| 2 | If the offer is accepted , the estate agent might ask for a deposit as a commitment but you are not obliged to hand this over . |
| 3 | It is logical to ask whether attenuation of soft X-rays in such a wind might account for the dividing line . |
| 4 | I date say a cheap day return from British Rail might account for a lot of it , but the rest is speculation . |
| 5 | The time set for one of the days is midnight , but it is not clear how long the Committee might sit for the first six days . |
| 6 | Care must be taken in interpreting Fig. 3 b because the CTD stations at the eastern end were not worked in the same location ( Fig. 1 ) , and some effect from the different topography might account for the eddy-like structure seen between 15–28°W . |
| 7 | Much work might remain for the clergy both in imposing a code of Christian morals , and in determining where the line was to run between what could and what could not form a respectable part of the Christian life . |
| 8 | THE Queen might last for a considerable time but people are going to be questioning the role of the monarchy more and more . |
| 9 | This was interpreted as constituting an indirect rejection of one passage in a report on the Western Sahara presented by Boutros-Ghali at the beginning of June in which the parties were given until Aug. 30 to reach an accord , failing which , it said , the Security Council might look for a different approach . |
| 10 | Mary Kaldor and Neal Ascherson look at what the Gulf war might mean for the new world order . |
| 11 | Now we can examine how a cash basis might account for the minibus , more specifically how a government 's cash basis might . |
| 12 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 13 | Labour leader John Smith told Mr Major : ‘ I am sure that the whole House will share the feeling of sadness which you have expressed and will also share the hope that a greater degree of privacy might result for the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children in what would be a difficult time for any family . ’ |
| 14 | The majority held that the case could be decided upon the narrow ground that the action for enticement should be extended beyond the strict relation of master and servant to embrace other contracts for personal services , but support was also given in varying degrees to a broader proposition that a plaintiff might sue for the knowing violation of the security of any type of contractual right . |
| 15 | But for those who came from the youth system OR came as youngsters/inexperienced — they do nt get that money , and one day might ask for a move just to get that one lump sum . |
| 16 | sought orders under section 6(2) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit for the purpose of restoring the investors to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into and under section 61(1) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit or to take such steps as the court might direct for the purpose of remedying the first defendant 's contravention of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 17 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 18 | Castro did , however , mention Cuba 's desire for trade relations and Alekseev , presumably perceiving this to be the best way forward , suggested that the Soviet trade exhibition then in New York should be brought to Havana , and that Anastas Mikoian might come for the opening ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 189 ) . |
| 19 | The court held that the council could not maintain the action : ‘ to allow such a thing would be wholly unprecedented and contrary to principle : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 806 , per Day J. There were two grounds of decision in effect , first , that a corporation might sue for a libel affecting property but not for one affecting personal reputation and , secondly , that the charge was one of bribery and corruption of which ( see the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case , 4 H. & N. 87 ) ‘ a corporation can not possibly be guilty : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 807 . |
| 20 | The Divisional Court referred to the Court of Justice of the European Communities the question whether Community law affected the conditions which a member state might prescribe for the entry of vessels in its national register and the right of vessels to fly its flag and carry its nationality . |
| 21 | This in turn might compensate for a reduced number of active cones and visual neurons per unit of retinal area . |
| 22 | Ruth planned to find somewhere in Dudley where she and her grandfather might stay for the night . |
| 23 | A similar metabolic defect in the ileum might account for the occurrence of ‘ pouchitis ’ in UC patients after colectomy . |
| 24 | He had shown what a little flair might do for the army as a whole . |
| 25 | And occasionally the bishop might call for the Laudes regiae , the litany ‘ addressed solely and triumphantly to the victorious Christ in his divinity as the eternal king of heaven and earth , and as the exemplar and guarantor of power and prosperity to all potentes who upheld the fabric of a unitary Christian society — pope , king , royal family , clergy , lay magnates and warriors ’ . |
| 26 | The bankruptcy of the plaintiff in an action which the trustee might maintain for the benefit of the creditors does not cause the action to abate if , within such reasonable time as the court orders , the trustee elects to continue the action and to give security . |
| 27 | The effect on prostaglandin production might account for the increase in dyspepsia associated with NSAIDs in patients colonised with Helicobacter pylori and could also protect the mucosa from superficial injury induced by NSAIDs . |