Example sentences of "might [vb infin] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck Mungo as being like a time-bomb , planted even before memory , which might explode at any moment . |
| 2 | She looked as if she might explode at any moment . |
| 3 | One might think at first blush that a passing reference to a person that all your readers will have heard of would serve to authenticate your story . |
| 4 | While we can not provide the details you might want at this time , I 'd encourage you to give us the benefit of the doubt . |
| 5 | Her voice was stretched very tight , as though it might snap at any moment and tumble her into tears . |
| 6 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 7 | The impossibility of replication in police investigation is not as crippling as might appear at first sight because it is far less important , or even necessary , in the criminal context than in science . |
| 8 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 9 | Shortly before the second anniversary of her wedding Mrs Tristan Gage suffered a miscarriage which kept her in bed for several cosseted days surrounded by every possible luxury and attention , including the embarrassed affection of her husband who had rather more idea how mares and hound bitches might feel at such moments than women , and the deep concern of her mother who , throughout her own twenty-six years of marriage had herself miscarried eight times . |
| 10 | Historians , of course , might feel at this point that they are in some sense losing control over what material is selected for future use ( Zweig 1992 : 181 ) . |
| 11 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 12 | Among the guests are many luminaries of Parisian society who might balk at that sort of food . |
| 13 | Ursula seemed somewhat calmer once she was home , not least because she was within earshot of the telephone , which she continued to think might ring at any moment , bringing news of Samantha . |
| 14 | It might work at international level but at club level you need a hardworking manager with a good business head . |
| 15 | One of the problems for local government is that it is easier to see how this might work at national level where the interests are clearer and more easily identifiable . |
| 16 | In terms of the social system , for example , one might look at first degree courses in terms of social selection and access — one of the functions identified in Figure 1.1 . |
| 17 | Italo Argentino Lúder , the then Defence Minister , announced on Aug. 17 that about 100 trials of members of the armed forces were to be cancelled but that the armed forces might look at individual cases with a view to punishment . |
| 18 | Thus , we might look at lithological changes through the geological column . |
| 19 | I suggested that they might look at smaller numbers of buttons , and see if they could spot how the number of ways of pressing them was growing . |
| 20 | Such was the case with the idea that hydrogen fusion might occur at moderate temperatures within solid materials . |
| 21 | US and allied governments stressed that the exact moment was unimportant as it was not a " trigger point " , but that military action might begin at any time they chose thereafter , unless Iraq had complied with the UN resolutions . |
| 22 | They stared at him as you might stare at orange rats trying to get into bed with you . |
| 23 | We might pause at this juncture to ask just why the British Government should assume an obligation to provide decent housing for the working classes , when in other countries rather different policies were pursued ; also why Britain embarked , consciously or otherwise , on a massive shift in housing tenure over the next 50 years and more . |
| 24 | One might suggest at this point that the level and module metaphors are not really opposed , because there could be a module that did the translation between the uppermost level and the one below it , and so on downwards . |
| 25 | Anything at all , and probably bad at that , might happen at any time … . |
| 26 | ‘ We might hear at any moment that it 's a bomb , ’ said Haig . |
| 27 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 28 | Sometimes I read schoolbooks , but there seems no point in learning anything when you might die at any minute . ’ |
| 29 | A tribe living near the shore might wonder at this evidence of sorting or arrangement in the world , and might develop a myth to account for it , perhaps attributing it to a Great Spirit in the sky with a tidy mind and a sense of order . |
| 30 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |