Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And why did you choose your pet — for its own attributes alone , or partly because your choice might influence others ' opinion of you ? |
| 2 | Now , that is not required to access the site so that actually would compete , I suspect , to funds against this committee and er and that might influence people 's decision on how far to go with the road . |
| 3 | This might explain Shell 's reluctance to commercialise or even patent the reaction . |
| 4 | Fixed-interest securities would be immune at least to some of the difficulties that might affect companies ' trading performance . |
| 5 | At the outset the willingness of George 's parents to cooperate with the school staff in discussing the home situation and how this might affect George 's behaviour in school was used by the teaching staff as evidence in support of their case that George 's needs could not be met within a mainstream school . |
| 6 | She had to discover evidence of Taczek 's confession to the murder of Mills that might survive Nowak 's death . |
| 7 | This person might know Cab 's brother , for Goddess ' sake ! |
| 8 | In , in column one we may think er bewildered , fearful hiding , weak , afraid , are words that might describe Peter 's state of mind , his emotions . |
| 9 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 10 | Walking towards it , he yawned again , and hoped he was n't too exhausted to cope with whatever might follow Alexandra 's arrival in his flat . |
| 11 | He did so partly by relying on the unquestioned fact that death and violence were an integral element in many books which were already on the way to becoming children 's classics ; from a list compiled rather later in the century one might cite Grimm 's Fairy Tales , Hans Andersen 's and the expurgated Arabian Nights . |
| 12 | This can be expanded to provide a relatively clear theoretical conformation for an elite which might fit Mosca 's model . |
| 13 | And also I could n't do something that might jeopardise Rob 's marriage to Heather . ’ |
| 14 | There were others , I pointed out , who might wish Ralemberg 's death and I was their pathetic dupe . |
| 15 | Two consultants believed that the plaintiff was suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis but also considered the possibility that she might have Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 16 | Listening carefully for any sound that might indicate fitzAlan 's presence , she stretched out a cautious foot , ready to withdraw it immediately if she encountered so much as a hint of him . |
| 17 | A Lloyds bid would surely go to the Monopolies Commission , and might drag Hongkong 's bid with it — just as Standard Chartered 's bid accompanied Hongkong 's to the commission a decade ago . |
| 18 | If you are playing Dwarf Wars , for example , the adventurers might reach Hargrim 's tomb only to find that it has been defiled and looted . |
| 19 | Here we might recall Derrida 's criticism of Levinas 's history ‘ as a blinding to the other , and as the laborious procession of the same ’ . |
| 20 | In an attempt to sway Scottish shareholders of Distillers and to influence Scottish public opinion ( which was anxious that a merger with Guinness might reduce Distillers ' involvement in Scotland ) , Guinness promised during the campaign that the ‘ largest part of our business will be Scottish-based ’ , that Scotland would be the ‘ decision-making centre ’ of the company and that Sir Thomas Risk , Governor of the Bank of Scotland , would be appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the combined group . |
| 21 | McLeish repressed the malicious thought that this event might put Francesca 's nose just a little bit out of joint . |
| 22 | But I might get Madge 's money back for her , if he has n't spent it already . |
| 23 | As she went along the hall , she wondered how she might persuade Maisie 's son to be a better person . |
| 24 | One might rewrite Lewis 's phrase to say that in Valinor , as opposed to Eden , the Fall came when conscious creatures became ‘ more interested in their own creations than in God 's ’ . |
| 25 | This might support Persinger 's hypothesis , as might the fact that the only recent abduction reported in the Pennine area occurred on the Craven fault . |
| 26 | Daniel told them how at this time God had so loved the world that he had sent his only son to give it life , to be made just like them , so that God might live man 's life and man might through him come close to God . |
| 27 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 28 | The authors believed that their serological results supported the view that infection with M paratuberculosis might cause Crohn 's disease . |
| 29 | In drama one might revise Bacon 's dictum to read , ‘ a lie shrinks from men but faces the audience ’ . |
| 30 | Though it might help Britain 's unemployment problem , who wants to harvest our annual 6 to 7 million tonnes of home-grown potato crop by hand ! |