Example sentences of "might [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some creditors might prefer a bigger pay-out sooner to financing a risky and expensive test-case . |
| 2 | Some people covered by the conventional company scheme might prefer a personal pension . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For example from the relative disaster in automobile manufacturing might arise a new concept of the car that is amazingly successful . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | At the same time , such a study might throw an interesting light on the way we currently analyse our popular rivals . |
| 11 | Once there , he could claim she was dead ; in the West , she might build a new life . |
| 12 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | If a takeover does become the subject of civil litigation or criminal proceedings , the Panel will normally suspend publication of any of its own findings which might influence the legal proceedings . |
| 19 | Some might regard the frequent leaks of sensitive government documents as a consequence of this tension . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | To examine the factors which might explain the higher mortality from sudden infant death syndrome in Maori infants ( 7.4/1000 live births in 1986 compared with 3.6 in non-Maori children ) . |
| 27 | We therefore used data from a large case-control study to look at differences between Maori and non-Maori children and examine factors that might explain the higher mortality from sudden death infant syndrome among Maori children . |
| 28 | This study will continue the analysis of data on aspects of Unit infants ' experience that might explain the developmental strengths and weaknesses demonstrated in the main study . |
| 29 | But while all this might explain the quantitative failures of left criticism it does not in itself , explain its qualitative failures . |
| 30 | Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) . |