Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge the timing of the research carefully , advised Ms Morris ; a key sales period , Christmas for example , would not be typical , neither were school holidays , which might throw up a biased sample . |
| 2 | For Geoffroy , a change in the environment might trigger off a new pattern of growth in the organism — but the result was determined more by the laws of growth than by the adaptive needs of the organism . |
| 3 | The group details are then re-examined for surface materials that might rule out the preliminary choice because of corrosion problems and choice is modified by the addition or substitution of a chemical type that will not affect the surfaces involved . |
| 4 | We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis . |
| 5 | He , he just might grow up a little bit |
| 6 | The Home Secretary , Sir Samuel Hoare , noted that any influx of refugees from the continent might bring together the political extremes — the fascists who had been attacking the Jews for three years and the communists and other left-wing elements who might argue that Jewish refugees were taking away Gentile employment . |
| 7 | Then he named them , along with Liverpool 's Rob Jones and still injured John Barnes , as the five he believed might embellish further an encouraging performance by a Paul Gascoigne-inspired England . |
| 8 | Though it is possible that the facts of such a case might show merely the legitimate compromise of a claim to damages , on the other hand , the facts might be such as to constitute extortion and blackmail of a serious type . |
| 9 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |
| 10 | We suggest that you might work out a daily rate for lighting , repairs , telephone and sundries ( on the basis of a 36 week year ) and then charge that . |
| 11 | We might sum up the naive inductivist position by saying that , according to it , science is based on the principle of induction , which we can write : |
| 12 | Raising a languid hand towards a grey-haired woman seated in an armchair beside the dog , and who looked as though she might patronise just the same sort of charity shops as Ellie herself , he introduced , ‘ My mother . ’ |
| 13 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
| 14 | ‘ For all we know , if the plant breeders start producing lots of new varieties , they might select out the protective ingredients . |
| 15 | Likewise , a carpenter or joiner might be on a set day rate but who for a period might take on a separate contract to saw timber at a rate per 100 ft. , the figure depending upon the hardness of the wood . |
| 16 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 17 | He never developed a major following there — even , as far as can be seen , in the early 1470s when there was still a possibility that he might take on a political role . |
| 18 | Or memory might take on a rose-coloured tinge — as with one officer who had commonly thumped prostitutes : |
| 19 | As did the suggestion that Liz and Owen might take over the old home . |
| 20 | Politicians , uncomfortable in the spotlight , publicly back some sort of reform package that might take away a few of their perks . |
| 21 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 22 | We might note here the central role of locales in these processes . |
| 23 | A straightforward mistake might have just a serious an effect . |
| 24 | Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going . |
| 25 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 26 | He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago . |
| 27 | because they might have only a few , whereas the others have got thousands on them . |
| 28 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 29 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 30 | He might cut out the middle man you see . |