Example sentences of "might [verb] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you think you might want to take an HIV antibody test to find out if you are infected , it is important to know what the test can and can not tell you . |
| 2 | What the report does not mention is whether MI6 received any overtures from the KGB to exchange Blake , nor does it consider the possibility that the KGB might want to free an agent who served it so well . |
| 3 | The problem is , as you access customer transactions and might want to raise an invoice , it 's intuitive to click on the INVOICE button in that section , thinking , not un-naturally , that it 's the right thing to do . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes you might want to sign an act for chart profile or just credibility . ’ |
| 5 | SAVE had meanwhile expressed its concern to the Department of the Environment and received an intimation that the ministers might consider serving an enforcement notice if the local authority demurred . |
| 6 | Wing specialists do n't even understand wings with full mathematical precision : they can predict how a wing will behave in turbulent conditions , only by examining a model in a wind tunnel or a computer simulation — the sort of thing a biologist might do to understand an animal . |
| 7 | If you are the stay-at-home type you might like to choose an exercise book or tape that covers strength and suppleness exercises of the kind we have described . |
| 8 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 9 | From the detailed observation of fifteen boards , it was evident that training often followed the pattern of immediate demand rather than being linked to any developmental plan ; thus , a board might ask the headteacher or member of staff for further elaboration of a topic which surfaced at a meeting , such as subject choice by S3 , or individuals might decide to attend an area session on interviewing skills only once they knew that they were to participate in the selection of a senior member of staff . |
| 10 | There are times when she will be included in their play and might decide to develop an opportunity for exploring mathematical ideas which have occurred . |
| 11 | We might try to approach an answer to this question by first looking at some specific features that characterise the identifying references to different kinds of topics of discourse . |
| 12 | There was ‘ vague information ’ that the person concerned might have eaten an egg which may have come from the monastery , Mother Catherine said . |
| 13 | Detectives think they might have uncovered an IRA Christmas bombing campaign . |
| 14 | This long experience , monopoly position and continued popularity might have engendered an element of complacency were it not for the enthusiasm and dynamism of the teaching team assisted by the advice and encouragement of industry representatives . |
| 15 | The unions might have seen an opportunity , trustees might have been appointed … ’ |
| 16 | Her biggest fear was that any hint that she might have formed an attachment for someone else would see her husband not waiting for her to agree to a divorce , but scandalising her parents by attempting to do the divorcing himself . |
| 17 | They might have made an effort to get the right costumes . |
| 18 | As Jenny Randles says in Abduction ( according to Mr Marr , the only really reliable guide to the spacenapping phenomenon ) , ‘ Of course I am making no assumptions about what it means to have been abducted [ by aliens ] , but if some researchers are correct many of you reading this book might have undergone an abduction experience without consciously realizing it . ’ |
| 19 | He might have waited an hour , she thought , and returned briskly to the kitchen just as Luch drift ed in for the soup . |
| 20 | But I understood that many in the battalions — some of Soares 's people apart-soldiered even more poorly than their already mediocre training and leadership might have led an expert onlooker to anticipate . |
| 21 | In Europe such abruptness might have raised an eyebrow or two , but in Indonesia it was stunningly rude . |
| 22 | Can you think of any more situations that you might have to use an excuse ? |
| 23 | This suggests that the clients themselves might have provided an impetus to itinerance . |
| 24 | Although it is clear that these changes were made in order to admit light to the new , deep-plan living accommodation , it is conceivable that the judicious use of ranges of standard reversible and ventilating roof windows might have provided an answer to this requirement which would have been less erosive of the original external appearance . |
| 25 | One might have anticipated an exposition on how this new syntax differed from that of the preceding age and how it could be developed for stylistic purposes . |
| 26 | If Deaconess Tilley had n't been there at the time , she might have found an excuse to say no . |
| 27 | Anyway , I got through this tricky interval , and even the sea co-operated for once , coming in just after the explosion and sweeping away any tell-tale tracks I might have left an hour or more before Diggs arrived from the village to inspect the scene . |
| 28 | You might have to write an essay or you do copy writing on the pa , do three sheets of pink paper , you had to three sheets of writing ! |
| 29 | Had the set been finished there , we might have got an album of more intensity but without commercial success — ‘ Exodus ’ was on the UK album charts for over a year . |
| 30 | The only Italian she might have got an introduction to — and though elderly he might have had a son — had dropped down dead in the Vatican Square . |