Example sentences of "might [adv] [vb infin] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visitor might already have known this ; Connie Franks ' better results are probably more the consequence of giving the right amount at the right time , the sign of greater attention to a plant 's needs which marks the best gardeners . |
| 2 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone not so far from here might just decide to take all those opportunities you wax so lyrical about away from you ! ’ |
| 4 | Apart from the monocle , and the cab-driver might deliberately have concealed that . ’ |
| 5 | For example , a player whose regular opponent fields High Elves might wisely decide to abandon any attempt to out-shoot his enemies in favour of a fast , hard-hitting attack force combined with long range artillery . |
| 6 | Such a committee might also help to satisfy those who are given to complaining about the choice of hymns . |
| 7 | Judging by her tone , she might even have transferred some of it to the absent Rose . |
| 8 | And you might even have to do this er for an interim period or something |
| 9 | ‘ True psychologists do not recommend siblings competing directly because they could become jealous and envious , and might even come to hate each other , ’ says Polgar . |
| 10 | ( One holding my position might well want to say that , given the masculinist nature of the religion , no wonder women have been excluded from its ministry — but that is an argument as to why women should leave Christianity , not for ordaining them . ) |
| 11 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 12 | Mr Smith , who is generally regarded as the clear favourite for the leadership , suggested that the ‘ misrepresentation ’ of Labour 's tax policy might well have caused some people not to support it . |
| 13 | We were shocked to discover how important this secretive and ill-attended rite was , and realized that our aquatic curiosity might well have offended these creatures on whose appearance , or otherwise , rested the continuation of the entire festival . |
| 14 | Howard might well have experienced some kind of contemporary equivalent , and therefore , have been interested in the latest turn of events in Texas . |
| 15 | I might well have got that onto another tape and then every time she says something you just say look what you 're doing ! |
| 16 | Courts , if they had been called upon to investigate people 's employment protection rights , might well have deemed some of them to have had one continuous employment relationship broken only by shortages of work rather than a series of different relationships . |
| 17 | Mr Gorbachev might well have won such a vote , and added to his formal powers the authority he now lacks . |
| 18 | Shakespeare , who admired energy , might well have applauded this writing , especially some fine pages ( pp.132–154 ) on his mature verse . |
| 19 | While the researcher might well need to make some of his own , standard equipment would be bought — partly for convenience , and partly because like the balance it would be more accurate for quantitative work then anything home-made . |
| 20 | We might indeed expect to find several new layers of structure more basic than the quarks and electrons that we now regard as ‘ elementary ’ particles . |
| 21 | We might then have seen such advertisements as : Galileo Galilei , for Famagusta Instant Golden Enriched Noodles , from atop the tower of Pisa : ‘ Let me tell you how it is . |
| 22 | Individuals might then seek to prevent such government action on the basis of the agreement . |
| 23 | We have been suggesting that career structures can serve well in the explanation of social behaviour which might otherwise appear to have little rationality . |
| 24 | Bartocci might previously have had some difficulty in making himself heard , but now he instantly had the total attention of both men . |
| 25 | If he remains at transport , he might yet have to revise that judgment . |
| 26 | One might either consider changing each switch in turn , cyclically , until none is changed ; or , one might consider changing them all simultaneously . |
| 27 | Even though individual Christians might never have suffered any harassment , their corporate existence and their way of thinking were determined by this condition . |
| 28 | An aggro leader is not to be confused with a ‘ good fighter ’ for , because of the peculiar nature of aggro , * he might never have to do any fighting at all . |
| 29 | I might never have got such a chance again . ’ |
| 30 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |