Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This might include shifting the burden of proof so that defendants have to satisfy the jury that they were sure they were not trading on illicit information . |
| 32 | Jovic nevertheless dismissed fears that the Presidency might seek to annul the election results and declare a state of emergency . |
| 33 | Many might seek to use the asylum route and , indeed , it would be naive to think otherwise . |
| 34 | A lawyer might be encouraged to work for , say , professional arrangements which opened up the profession 's services to the general public ; or a chemist might seek to reduce the impact of the chemical industry on the environment ; or a doctor might act to bring about a new balance between preventive and restorative medicine , as practised by the profession . |
| 35 | Although he stated that the government had not yet decided how to respond to the setback , he indicated that the Council of Joint Leadership might seek to alter the Constitution in order to allow amendments to be passed by a simple majority . |
| 36 | The growth of criticism of Rhee led to speculation that he might seek to postpone the elections scheduled for May 1950 . |
| 37 | But are there other circumstances , perhaps less predictable , in which an adult might need to have a home with relatives , at least on a temporary basis ? |
| 38 | He might need to learn the trick of that before he got too much older ; before he wanted time he could n't have . |
| 39 | You might consider ditching the PostScript cartridge and buying TrueType equivalents for your Type 1 fonts . |
| 40 | In addition , he might consider taking a shower or some exercise on waking , procedures which are aimed at stressing a regular start to the day . |
| 41 | If , for example , a survey showed that 80% of people in an area were concerned about their health and their diet , the retailer might consider stocking a line of health foods and ‘ natural ’ products . |
| 42 | You might consider moving the stops to allow for a thicker door , or if this is impractical , using a thicker door and rebating the edges to the existing thickness so that it fits the frame . |
| 43 | SAVE had meanwhile expressed its concern to the Department of the Environment and received an intimation that the ministers might consider serving an enforcement notice if the local authority demurred . |
| 44 | You might consider buying a screech alarm . |
| 45 | If you arc prepared to invest a lot of time and money in your new kitchen you might consider making a sort of kitchen/living or family room ; a real ‘ heart of the home ’ area , more casual than a living room , more cosy than a working kitchen . |
| 46 | However , should Cleo 's entreaty elicit no response , he might consider investigating the building with her . |
| 47 | You might consider changing the name of the bookshop a little to get in ‘ electronic book ’ somewhere . ’ |
| 48 | Increasingly , the teaching staff participate fully , but the governors and senior management might consider broadening the process to include non-teaching staff and the parents who , after all , are the clients . |
| 49 | Those who work with old people might consider compiling a list of regular tasks or activities and , as part of planned intervention , finding out what are most and least precious areas of independence to old people — choosing clothes , managing money , cleaning the kitchen , going shopping and so on . |
| 50 | If one integrates this thinking with the concepts underlying the SBU portfolio grids in strategic analysis , and especially if a successful cost-leadership and limit-pricing policy such as described earlier in this chapter is being pursued , one might expect to see a product ( SBU ) shift from ‘ Fine tuning ’ , through ‘ Pursue ’ , ‘ Awaken ’ , ‘ Scramble ’ and ‘ Salvage ’ , over the product life-cycle . |
| 51 | Astute readers will note that our pages look different this week ; and those who know about journal redesign might expect to see a trickle of editorial blood emerging from The Lancet 's front door . |
| 52 | In political systems where there is free electoral competition between political parties for power , ‘ one might expect to find a connection not only between individual papers and parties but also a correspondence , or parallelism , between the range of papers and the range of parties ’ . |
| 53 | Mother wept to see Father 's state , and proposed that we set out for Chiguana , the nearest town where we might expect to find a hospital , immediately . |
| 54 | We might expect to find a source of order and sense of confidence in the home , but for these particular people this was just not so . |
| 55 | You might expect to find a house like this in some refined seaside resort such as Budleigh Salterton or Sidmouth , where , owing to the wars and consequent lack of foreign travel , the nobility and even a Royal or two were building elaborate holiday houses . |
| 56 | Such things are celebrated in his stories with a richness and unction which might appear to make a renegade of Babel and certainly of Levi . |
| 57 | Whilst this might appear to make the counsellor a ‘ jack-of-all-trades ’ , a more positive interpretation is that the counsellor is in the privileged position of seeing the older individual as a whole or entire person . |
| 58 | I think we have to learn a lot er of , of how to treat the AIDS virus , but er hopefully , er the scientists might succeed to find the vaccine . |
| 59 | Wing specialists do n't even understand wings with full mathematical precision : they can predict how a wing will behave in turbulent conditions , only by examining a model in a wind tunnel or a computer simulation — the sort of thing a biologist might do to understand an animal . |
| 60 | The main problem remains Hillary Clinton , and what she might do to clobber the prices charged by drug companies in the USA , the world 's largest market . |