Example sentences of "[det] might [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some might like a push stick for safety but I 've never bothered . |
| 2 | Since aggressive animals often have higher testosterone levels than normal this might aid a male in persisting in attacks on harem males and thereby in gaining a harem . |
| 3 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 4 | The government has resisted introducing a ‘ disregard ’ of maintenance for those on income support partly because of fears that this might create a disincentive to work . |
| 5 | This might create a balance in the day-to-day encounters of young people and carers between , on the one hand , issues concerned with the young person 's feelings and behaviour towards others and , on the other hand , the appreciation and learning of skills associated with a range of activities and interests . |
| 6 | Even amongst those who supported restricting the giving of accountants reports to registered auditors , concern was expressed that this might create a monopoly for larger accountancy firms who would then be in a position to charge higher fees . |
| 7 | This might cause a realignment of the parties . |
| 8 | His parents hoped that this might prove a stepping-stone to a painter 's career , but Rosenberg hated the work , only deriving consolation from his reading of such poets as Byron , Keats , Shelley , and , most importantly , William Blake [ qq.v. ] ; from his own writing ; and from evening painting classes at the art school of Birkbeck College . |
| 9 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 10 | This might include a set of rules for relating the surface form of an utterance to its underlying meaning , and certain grammatical categories such as sentence subject and object of the verb . |
| 11 | This might include a desire to see wild flowers and animals in a natural setting , possibly to see sheep and cattle grazing in fields , to have access to woodlands , country walks , to be able to climb hills and even mountains and to go down pot-holes . |
| 12 | This might seem a bit rich coming from a man who has spent most of his career luxuriating in material wealth as one of the US 's most enduring entertainers . |
| 13 | It seemed impossible that this might become a battlefield , and perhaps it would not , for Sharpe was already beginning to doubt what he had seen that same morning . |
| 14 | You can work on those and you can build them up in two or three or four year 's time job changes this might take a bit more of a a higher priority . |
| 15 | This might take a year or so for planks an inch or two thick and seven years for large oak ship 's timbers . |
| 16 | Er now I mean One thing that a lot of the literature says is that this might indicate a power , and another thing that the literature says |
| 17 | then that might make a difference . |
| 18 | But then you come to the problem , erm , because for ninety four five , erm , the formula suggests that we would need less staff , that might seem a bit odd but the , the reason is that if you do indeed bring your target times down , then the amount of work which your passing over into the next year is er considerably less , erm than the amount of work which you passed over into this year , |
| 19 | Perhaps by er the blinds as well , that might help a bit . |
| 20 | and we did n't think , and sort of , then we realized that had to sort of like turn it off and that might help a bit , but boiling water , we 're trying to stop it with our finger . |
| 21 | That might solve a lot of problems . |
| 22 | That might provoke a riot , the very thing he was trying to avoid . |
| 23 | For example , he may want to see whether the chief constable has been making use of civilian resources as well as he should , and he might be saying to the inspectorate of constabulary , ’ If you can demonstrate a better use of money and resources through civilianisation , that might have a bearing on the availability of uniformed police officers . ’ |
| 24 | Of all the advice she had received from the other creatures , taking away the dog 's food was the only one , she decided in the end , that might have a chance of succeeding . |
| 25 | These might include a number of individual sessions , or a place in an anxiety management group , or even perhaps no further involvement . |
| 26 | Do you think these might have a bearing on your feelings about a woman as your parish priest ? |
| 27 | There is some question whether these conditions would result from economic and social factors , except in so far as the latter might have a bearing upon the extent and quality of prenatal care . |