Example sentences of "might [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should , however , recognise the problems that might arise as a result and make sure that we do not misinterpret any problem . |
| 2 | The letters said that the payments were made without prejudice to any right to recover them which might arise as a result of legal proceedings . |
| 3 | Therefore , we must expect some major changes in that region in the coming years and be prepared for anything that might arise as a result . |
| 4 | Regional policy has thus been amended in accordance with a perceived need to deal with the growing regional disparities which might arise as a consequence of the SEM . |
| 5 | Having considered the conflicts that might arise between a landlord and his tenant , Dr Clay concludes that : |
| 6 | Let us then [ … ] suppose a great increase in the general demand for fish , such for instance as might arise from a disease affecting farm stock , by which meat was made a dear and dangerous food for several years together . |
| 7 | Most commonly , this might relate to a right of way across the neighbouring property , and details as to whether or not that right has been interrupted or whether charges have been made for its use will be required . |
| 8 | Since it was very hot they just put on a loincloth , but when they had visitors they might throw on a leopard skin to look more venerable . |
| 9 | These vowel changes are brought about by rules — not the sort of rules that one might teach to language learners , but more like the instructions that one might build into a machine or write into a computer program . |
| 10 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 11 | But it must have been a temptation in poor working-class communities , where virginity in any case was not sacred , where the stigma against extra-marital sex was weak , and where a prostitute could earn in half an hour what a respectable girl might earn in a week . |
| 12 | The notion that an enzyme might exist in a number of forms decided purely on probability is anathema to many scientists . |
| 13 | Others sink in what outsiders might regard as a storm in a teacup . |
| 14 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 15 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 16 | Might think about a commercial what 's happened years ago . |
| 17 | The play that they 're doing is a play called ‘ Nothing On ’ and has all the horrors you might think of a play with that title . |
| 18 | Maybe it is , but what does it mean wh what sort of thing might it refer to might think of a couple of fairly obvious ones . |
| 19 | I think of it more as a novelist might think of a bookshop . |
| 20 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 21 | The appearance of these locomotives , north of Warrington , was not as frequent as you might think from a study of published photographs of the period . |
| 22 | I suppose you might think in a case now you might think that er er certain people are n't entitled to welfare benefits or something that |
| 23 | I showed all the tolerance and good humour that a woman might want of a man when we investigated the range of shopping offered by the spaceport city . |
| 24 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 25 | ( c ) Try to link together the scattered specific observations you might make on a text . |
| 26 | At one level this meant that the exiguous legal structure of this relationship afforded much social power to the landowner , whose ability to terminate the tenancy at pleasure might hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of his tenant farmers . |
| 27 | Mark your possessions with your postcode — the police will then give you a window sticker , which might act as a deterrent . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're really very busy at the moment , but give me a ring tomorrow in my office and we 'll try and make a date ’ he said feebly , hoping his lack of enthusiasm might act as a deterrent . |
| 29 | The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth . |
| 30 | Only in mathematics do we see a successful artificial and international language , though when we come to talk about visual language we may see something a little like it ; and music might count as a language , though one in which it is hard to say anything very definite . |