Example sentences of "might [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stressed that attempts should be made to minimise any hardship they might experience to the greatest extent possible , as long as these did not prejudice the children 's best interests . |
| 2 | The hot-rod 's flexible definition means that even a car straight from Chrysler 's factory might appeal to the fashion-conscious . |
| 3 | Although , as Ferril readily admits , many of the rites performed by the ‘ twenty-two young priests of perfect physique , might appear to the uninitiated as a chaotic conflict concerned only with hurting the oval by kicking it ’ , the pattern of worship is highly stylized . |
| 4 | Dalgliesh thought that however ferocious he might appear to the outside world his children had no fear of him . |
| 5 | Batch production work is often of this kind and in general it is by no means as unchanging or boring as it might appear to the casual visitor to the factory . |
| 6 | We might refer to the former as ‘ classroom-oriented research ’ ( see Seliger and Long 1983 ) and the latter as ‘ classroom-centred research ’ ( see Allwright 1983 ) . |
| 7 | As a further illustration of an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity in Western thought , we might refer to the mystical approach to nature of the poet Wordsworth , who claims to have felt in nature : |
| 8 | Hincmar of Rheims wrote to give orders to a neighbouring count who just happened to be his kinsman : it is not hard to see how an archbishop might refer to the local counts collectively as " his " , or the draftsman of a capitulary write in general terms of " archbishops and their counts " . |
| 9 | Waste ore is a somewhat obscure term and in this context might refer to the residual sand and gravel , which did have a market of sorts . |
| 10 | How formal this take-over was is an open question ; to a large extent the evidence derives from the funerary inscriptions of fifth- and sixth-century bishops , where the epithet defensor civitatis might refer to the dead man 's achievements rather than his office . |
| 11 | Therefore other metabolic abnormalities have been sought in diabetic subjects which might contribute to the increased vascular risk . |
| 12 | Noting a coincidence between the ‘ open structure ’ of adolescence , in which the subject , ‘ in the aftermath of the oedipal stabilisation of subjective identity , … again questions his identifications , along with his capacities for speech and symbolisation ’ ( p. 9 ) , and the ‘ open structure ’ of the novel which explores a similar fluidity , negotiating the ‘ frontiers between differences of sex or identity , reality and fantasy , act and discourse ’ , Kristeva suggests that some form of literary history , that of novelistic discourse , might contribute to the fundamental project of psychoanalysis , that is , ‘ how to understand perversion in a way that is at once faithful and noncomplacent ’ ( p. 22 ) . |
| 13 | If it is difficult now to concur with the Bioscope reviewer 's judgement that the film ‘ surpasses in technical achievement anything of its kind ever made in Britain , and at times soars to heights of directorial brilliance ’ , it 's still possible to understand how an audience that had been accustomed only to silent films might warm to the various acts on display . |
| 14 | Other navies might stick to the old tactics of trying to board enemy ships and capture them , or concentrate on firing at the masts and rigging in the hope that successful shooting would disable the other side , but the English preferred to shoot into the hulls of their enemies because they knew that with enough time and enough shot they would destroy their opponents . |
| 15 | She was suddenly afraid , not just of Gesner but of the catastrophes that might occur to the whole company because of the tension . |
| 16 | But this is not the only possible way in which the economy might respond to the upward shift of the aggregate demand curve . |
| 17 | We also conclude that CREM is only present at very low levels ( it might correspond to the weak band observed in figure 4C lane 2 ) or is not expressed at all in UF9 cells . |
| 18 | The Symon Unconformity has been picked at the base of a thin coal sequence which might correspond to the Phillipsii Chronozone of the upper Westphalian C. Thus a limited gas potential can be attributed to the base of the Barren Measures sequence . |
| 19 | This is rather like an attitude one might take to the philosophical discussions about whether we have free will or not . |
| 20 | Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per . |
| 21 | The question was whether supporting the teacher on this basis might lead to the required change in his attitude , help him to see the situation in a new light , and thus affect his perception of the problem . |
| 22 | However to judge by the veteran abolitionist Lushington 's intervention in the 1831 debate the powerful demand for immediatism from abolitionists in the country was still somewhat muffled in parliament ; he approved of it if understood as , measures immediately brought in now and adopted which might lead to the gradual extinction of slavery' ; Buxton had avoided completely talking of immediate emancipation . |
| 23 | Increased versatility of learning would confer great selective advantage and is just the kind of change that might lead to the very rapid evolution of neocortex , so we can add this to global connectivity and greater genetic control as possible causes of the neopallial explosion . |
| 24 | " The Trieste crisis blew up with an intensity which at the time suggested that it might lead to the last battle of the Second World War or the first of the Third World War . " |
| 25 | In many cases the two contentions might lead to the same result , but not in the present case . |
| 26 | And if you 're a er golfer er you might go to the professional and say you know I 'm miss I 'm hooking , you know , can you show me how I ca n't do this ? |
| 27 | It is not easy to judge how many of the ten millions do or might belong to the prosperous aristocracy of the working classes , that section with which politicians come into contact , and from whence come those whom society is rather over-hasty to welcome as ‘ representative working men ’ … |
| 28 | The main grounds appeared to be the danger which it might pose to the small Southern protestant minority by encouraging mixed marriages . |
| 29 | So we might add to the tripartite analysis the fourth condition that nothing can be known which is inferred from a false belief , or from a group of beliefs of which one is false . |
| 30 | The former UK Prime Minister Edward Heath , conducting a humanitarian mission for which he was much criticized at home on the grounds of the possible propaganda opportunities which it might afford to the Iraqi leadership , secured the release of some 40 British nationals who arrived at Gatwick airport early on Oct. 24 ( two children , several women , and some of the men on the list of the elderly and sick which he had presented to Saddam Hussein at lengthy talks on Oct. 21 ) . |