Example sentences of "might [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people covered by the conventional company scheme might prefer a personal pension . |
| 2 | Those on windowsills could be too cold at night , for example , while plants which spend the summer in darker corners might prefer a bright spot near to the window . |
| 3 | With wall hangings you can choose a bold , vivid effect that will be the focal point of the room ; or you might prefer a subdued pattern that will tone in with the surroundings . |
| 4 | Cats sleep a lot , so let them choose their own spots — instead of a cosy fireside , your two might prefer an old box on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 5 | For example from the relative disaster in automobile manufacturing might arise a new concept of the car that is amazingly successful . |
| 6 | One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations . |
| 7 | One answer to this question might utilize an optical theory of the telescope that explains its magnifying properties and that also gives an account of the various aberrations to which we can expect telescopic images to be subject . |
| 8 | At the same time , such a study might throw an interesting light on the way we currently analyse our popular rivals . |
| 9 | Once there , he could claim she was dead ; in the West , she might build a new life . |
| 10 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 11 | One argument given earlier was that the processor might treat a proper name as signalling the status of main character , and so bring about a relatively high proportion of singular continuations made to this character . |
| 12 | That methodology , some members argued , might enhance the Scottish budget given that Scotland was currently paying for a share of some centralised services which it neither used nor needed . |
| 13 | Only when the Government could prove that disclosure would cause " grave and irreparable injury to the public interest " — details , for example , of troop deployment in wartime or information which might trigger a nuclear war — was a court entitled to stop the presses . |
| 14 | The Government might fool the British public by denying the atrocity stories , but the Army in Ireland knew the truth , the newspapers knew , the people knew . |
| 15 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 16 | The Chancellor also took the opportunity to nuance his support for German reunification in ways which will reassure those fearful that precipitate moves to unification might unsettle the Soviet Union and threaten the improvement in East-West relations . |
| 17 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 18 | Nor , in the long hours of her sleeping , when he and Diniz shared the same room , did he say more than he thought might reassure the young Portuguese . |
| 19 | Breach of professional standards and etiquette This ground should be extended ( either specifically or generally ) to cover all instances of professional misconduct which might damage the good name of the firm . |
| 20 | I 'll want you to think about that tonight , I 'm gon na hand out a few sheets that might might explain a little bit of synergy erm I believe synergy this is my this is more of a sort of worldly view . |
| 21 | What physical processes might explain the dividing line ? |
| 22 | It was implied that this might explain the enormous rise in my BMA/BUPA premium . |
| 23 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 24 | One fear about saying ‘ No ’ is that you might hurt the other person . |
| 25 | Some fixed lens cameras have a maximum and minimum focus , and might restrict the maximum depth you can dive to . |
| 26 | Here is an example of how the changes might affect a small business , with a 15% phased increase each year . |
| 27 | It is possible , however , that synthetic chemicals might affect the immune response in some way . |
| 28 | One way is that semantic and/or pragmatic factors might affect the syntactic analysis of a clause or sentence ; that is , these different kinds of processing are interactive . |
| 29 | The first step is to determine which system might affect the subsequent course of events ; these could be the station 's electrical system , the ECCS , the radioactivity scrubbing system , and the containment system . |
| 30 | WITH A NAME like Hamid Dastmalchi you might think the new world poker champion is a Middle Easterner — maybe an Iranian like Mansour Matloubi , the Cardiff-based player who won the title two years ago . |