Example sentences of "might [verb] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One possibility is that the sentences simply invoke mental associations , in the way that hearing , say , the word prognosis might make one think of hospitals But here that does not seem to be the case . |
| 2 | A train — which , as Peter said , the law-abiding might wait ten minutes for — arrived and bore the boy away in the nick of time . |
| 3 | While these devices might win one election by dramatically increasing electoral turnout , the new voters mobilized by such appeals could only be the least politically informed citizens , and the most susceptible to authoritarian views . |
| 4 | An average human might discharge 200 grams of faeces a day . |
| 5 | The novelty of touring America is wearing off , and you might spend 24 hours in the bus . |
| 6 | Equally a yacht which is cruising and has more power-consuming electronic equipment , such as a refrigerator , which might use 200 amps during a week , would require a much larger generator , one that could recharge at 28.6 amps per day ( 1.2 amp/hr ) . |
| 7 | Six rows forming a curve over 60 stitches is rather abrupt , the same number of rows would suit 120 stitches equally well , in which case you might work 60 stitches at the centre , with the 30 stitches at each end being returned to working position in a series of three sets of ten stitches . |
| 8 | The CD industry might provide 230 jobs in Swindon , but judging by the response to a poll on local radio , most people would like to see prices lowered . |
| 9 | ‘ Unless other clubs fell by the wayside for financial reasons , our plan to put a stop to relegation for another two years might produce 26 clubs in the third division by the end of the 1994–95 season . |
| 10 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 11 | In Cannock Forest the warden might take ten oaks from those blown down in the hays of Alrewas , Hopwas and Gailey , and in ‘ the wood called Hockley ’ . |
| 12 | I do n't know how much to take , I might take ten pounds worth or something , I do n't need that much why , I need some money for Saturday as well do n't I ? , should n't need that much though |
| 13 | Those figures were misleading anyway : ‘ A twenty-foot wave might have fifty feet of face on it . ’ |
| 14 | One might distinguish three kinds of policy areas in which a country either is or is not sovereign . |
| 15 | does n't matter if I 'm not going to name any names but I mean I 've seen some people who it 's been suggested might stand two hoots of a flick of a finger whether someone of the sort that I 've seen mentioned , stood or not . |
| 16 | One month you might get the beans , they might get through , another month , the rice might get through , another month you might get two months of oil . |
| 17 | I might get one A from really |
| 18 | I mean , I 'll get a box sent to me and it might get one spin at home so that I can relax , sort of wipe my brow knowing it does n't jump , the quality 's good and it 's loud enough … ’ |
| 19 | I , I might get forty pounds at the Empire Ballroom . |
| 20 | If you winced from the blow you might lose three quarters of an inch or more and it was no use arguing about it . |
| 21 | For each trait ( for example , the trait of being tall or short , or of being smooth or wrinkled ) , each individual receives two genes , one inherited from each parent : thus an individual might receive two genes for tallness , or two for shortness , or one of each . |
| 22 | Accept her cold rebuffs without anger or impatience ; be there for her as best he might in the fond hope that this dreary rain must cease , that Spring must come again , and she might wake one day to that glorious span of light across the water-meadows . |