Example sentences of "might [verb] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , he might prefer to hold the other party to the contract but would like some compensation for the breach and if the breach concerns a minor term this is usually the better solution . |
| 2 | I might 've guessed the worst when the scrum fell apart for me like the Red Sea . |
| 3 | In particular , they pointed to two barriers which might exist to prevent the full employment equilibrium from being reached : lock of investment and the liquidity trap . |
| 4 | If yer fed up reading about it just skip this , though then again you might want to savour the highest standards of reporting as found only in NOTW : - ) |
| 5 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |
| 6 | If we were really lucky we 'd be able to go to conference and try and sell hundreds of them to other Green Parties who might want to do the same . |
| 7 | If you want a file naming convention , you might want to explain the different elements of the file name . |
| 8 | Socialist Worker appeared to be soaking up the potential trade union readership , while the audience of students in revolt could dwindle — although with the formation of the Revolutionary Socialists Student Federation there were hopes that the ‘ new vanguard ’ might survive to detonate the proletarian uprising . |
| 9 | He might enjoy exploring the many rooms that , while not too wonderful graphically , serve their purpose well enough . |
| 10 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 11 | There have been suggestions that they might be given state funding , or that some RCD members in the Chamber of Deputies might resign to allow the other parties a look in . |
| 12 | The stress on competition has led the competition Directorate of the European Commission ( DGIV ) to place a particular emphasis on attacking any behaviour which might appear to segment the European market into national markets . |
| 13 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 14 | She holds a discussion on why people might choose to undertake the dangerous journey . |
| 15 | Again one might choose to introduce the mathematical terms — larger , smaller , look the same . |
| 16 | Aware that any serious tightening of short-term interest rates added billions to federal debt-service costs , even the feistiest central bank might hesitate to tighten the monetary screw when inflation threatened . |
| 17 | I thought you might like to see the cheeky lodger I have . |
| 18 | Omi thought that you might like to see the old Adlon . |
| 19 | MEANWHILE , if you 're not actually strangling a turkey at the moment then you might like to do the next worse thing and plunge into the unsavoury giblets of the 1990 calendar of the National Association of Conservative Graduates . |
| 20 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 21 | You might like to stay the same weight but change your shape . |
| 22 | Other interested observers of the business of South Coast berthing might like to read the first letter in defence of the Hamble River Boatbuilders and Marina Owners Association 's ( HRBMOA ) attempts to get the Hamble River Plan changed . |
| 23 | If you still have some money to spare after this , then you might like to consider the riskier investments . |
| 24 | Bases in Britain alone might suffice to service the Strategic Air Command at its current strength . |
| 25 | But once it was understood that Europeans might hope to reach the fabled East by travelling West , then explorers could reasonably hope that before very long they would have mapped the whole surface of the globe . |
| 26 | Told her I might decide to scrap the whole thing . |
| 27 | Otherwise it might decide to nationalise the foreign firm 's assets on its soil knowing that the company will just be able to claim the compensation anyway . |
| 28 | With no knowledge of these probabilities , he might decide to assume the worst and maximise the lowest objective function , that is maximise min subject to the constraints . |
| 29 | The fact that educational policies , such as positive images , might attempt to reflect the social reality of an increasingly diverse society and to address the needs of individual children , was greatly undermined by this whole campaign . |
| 30 | The historian with the gift of hindsight might wish to counter-assert the greater benefits brought by well-planned public infrastructural investment . |