Example sentences of "might [verb] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newcomer might diagnose that money mattered . |
| 2 | This report offered a useful opportunity to discuss the extent to which the age factor might influence clinical decision making . |
| 3 | Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ? |
| 4 | You might think many people buy it as a coffee table book , but they do n't . |
| 5 | Now you might think well stags have harem groups and they 've got these enormous antlers and they could bully and er I mean a harem group looks kind of fascist kind of social structure you know when a male dominates female , but in fact field observations of how stags actually deal with their females show that they 're very tender erm towards them and they have to have the cooperation of the female in order to mount . |
| 6 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 7 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 8 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 9 | so , erm I hope that , that might make few people visit , but then as I said also in it , you ca n't force people to go to the theatre if they do n't want |
| 10 | That one or two might make enough money to pass as legitimately successful , but that most would go on hoping for and talking about the ‘ up for none touch ’ that was just around the corner if only this and that fell into place until they became little more than saloon-bar bores . |
| 11 | Stroud District Council says it ca n't allow the face to stay because it might tempt other people to paint their dishes . |
| 12 | We would appeal to anyone who thinks they might know these bikers to come forward . ’ |
| 13 | Therefore , it is important to try to identify the factors which might assist general practitioners to recognize those patients who are at special risk of attempted suicide . |
| 14 | This document proclaimed to the people of Wales that members of a society with mental handicap had a right to the same services as everyone else , had the right to be treated as individuals , and might need special assistance to make this possible . |
| 15 | More expensive wheeled models are available and are easier to handle , but they might need more room to manoeuvre . |
| 16 | The betting suggested that the Ulsterman 's mount in the Anything Goes Stakes , The Goofer , might need motorised assistance to make much impact . |
| 17 | As far as the food is concerned , you might consider some formula based on costs since this is widely understood and accepted . |
| 18 | First that , in the absence of special strengths , and on the basis of external restraints , we might expect such companies to perform worse than a plc . |
| 19 | Having seen that there is an a priori case for some governmental interference , we will pass on in chapter 3 to applications of the theory of the firm to regulated situations — how we might expect such firms to behave . |
| 20 | However , one might expect such opportunities to become more widespread as the number of such children supported in mainstream continues to grow . |
| 21 | So one might expect chemical sensitivity to run in families , if enzyme defects are a common cause of the problem . |
| 22 | Developmental norms are an attempt to provide an indication of the ages at which one might expect ordinary children to show evidence of certain skills or abilities . |
| 23 | If , however , the vertical axis is defined as attainable competitive strength , then one might expect most investment to take place in the top left corner . |
| 24 | We therefore might expect cultural changes to have greatly outstripped our slowly changing evolutionary heritage , in which case our present behaviour should be attributed more to the process of cultural , than of genetical , evolution . |
| 25 | ‘ even if Mr. Shephard had exercised some dominating influence over her , there is no evidence to show that the bank knew that he would or might bring such influence to bear , or that they used Mr. Shephard in order that he should exert pressure on his wife … |
| 26 | Early reports that the technically more complex distal splenorenal shunt might prevent this complication have not unfortunately been confirmed by subsequent experience . |
| 27 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
| 28 | When an Orc wants to do something he simply does it , where a human might spend untold time weighing the alternatives . |
| 29 | Sometimes I continue yesterday 's painting or I start a new work , often it is an idea I have thought about from the studio , or I might spend some time looking through sketch books . |
| 30 | With older children we might spend some time discussing this ( perhaps wondering if the giant would ever let us get near enough to open his mouth and clean his teeth for him ) ; with this age group , however , I immediately enthuse about the idea : " Right , that 's really good . |