Example sentences of "[that] [noun prp] might [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a momentary scare that Tranmere might snatch the lead just before the break when Aldridge , scorer of 38 goals this season , had a shot-on-the-turn blocked by a defender . |
| 2 | Fearing that Germany might win the race to develop this weapon , the US government set up the Manhattan Project , costing $2 billion and involving some 150 000 people , including most of the world 's most outstanding physicists . |
| 3 | As yet , no definitive decision has been made as to the microkernel that will be used for new versions of OS/2 , though developers are known to be working with the Carnegie-Mellon University 's Mach 3 microkernel ; in addition , there is the possibility that IBM might use the NT kernel — ‘ we could use the NT microkernel if we wanted to ’ , it said . |
| 4 | In group therapy , I suggested that Matthew might re-play the final scene from his marriage , as if he were someone who expressed anger openly . |
| 5 | The immediate impulse was the prospect which arose in the 1830s that Canada might go the same way of rebellion as the American colonies . |
| 6 | That evening a knock — furtive and hasty , telling Alice who it was — brought her out to find Monica on the path near the gate , not outside the door , for the girl had been afraid that Faye might open the door . |
| 7 | Joan Bohanna was worried that Pilger might use the paper to say what he , rather than they , wanted . |
| 8 | This raised the prospect that Yeltsin might use the Russian presidency as an ultra-reformist power base from which to challenge Gorbachev 's authority , making Russia a new element of instability in the already crisis-ridden Soviet Union . |
| 9 | She wondered how long it would be before Kathy grew alarmed If Clare was n't home and had n't telephoned by two o'clock — or three at the latest — she reckoned that Kathy might phone the police , who would surely find her before long . |
| 10 | Leopold 's fear , on the other hand , was that Mozart might lose the appointment in Salzburg and with it the chance to begin paying off the debts . |
| 11 | House of Representatives and Senate Democratic leaders intentionally delayed sending the bill to the White House prior to the election after some Democrats and special-interest groups became convinced that Bush might sign the bill once free of campaign pressures . |
| 12 | Two days previously an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman had told the Sunday Times that Iran might revoke the decree if the UK " declared respect for Islam " ; this was described by the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on June 5 as " a very significant olive branch " from Iran . |
| 13 | We therefore suggested that PYY might mediate the bile inhibition of ileal motility . |
| 14 | Relations with Turkey had been strained since Oct. 1 , 1989 when the Turkish President , Turgut Ozal ( at the time Prime Minister ) , hinted that Turkey might reduce the flow of the Euphrates River if Syria failed to curb the attacks on Turkey by Kurdish separatists from Syrian-occupied eastern Lebanon . |
| 15 | After Ryan , and the irritation he had often had with her , she was worried that Leo might become the same . |