Example sentences of "might [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are single , healthy and in your 20s , then it is probably worth very little to you , and you might prefer to take a cash alternative if one were on offer . |
| 2 | In the private sector a greater incentive might exist to show a need for higher fees to match high levels of dependency . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you might want to take a look at young Timothy here . |
| 4 | For example , you might want to take a country record and copy the inflections of some singer 's voice ; doing that will give you something completely new . |
| 5 | There are several reasons why you might want to use a data compression utility ; the main two are for the purposes of backup , or for sending files to someone else , either on a disk or via a modem . |
| 6 | The Americans have long been eager for the Japanese to help Latin America 's economies , and mused that the Europeans might want to shoulder a degree of responsibility for Africa . |
| 7 | Anyway , you were asleep when it happened but they might want to have a word , so — ’ |
| 8 | Typically , a software developer might want to write a word processing program which will be compatible with another company 's spreadsheet program so that data and files can be passed between the two programs . |
| 9 | Well , you might want to knit a dolman sweater , a bolero or a cross-over cardigan . |
| 10 | Vague objectives might include maintaining a market share or keeping up with technology or offering good value to the customer . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You might consider buying a screech alarm . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The full-strength argument is that there are often substantial costs to employing someone which mean that a company might choose to employ a machine rather than a person even if that person 's wages cost them nothing . |
| 25 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 26 | Similarly , we might claim to have a right to private property on account of having interests which crucially depend on private ownership . |
| 27 | She had hated the pity she thought that she saw in her mama and papa 's eyes , and when her papa had suggested that she might like to spend a year in London with her Uncle Orrin , be presented at court , meet his old friend the Prince of Wales , now King Edward VII , again , she had agreed with alacrity — she , who had hated being parted from her mama and papa . |
| 28 | Residence Elena has a small lake where guests might like to take a swim , except on Thursdays , Saturdays and Sundays when they are invited to use the lake for a little fishing . |
| 29 | The date was first fixed as the 13th July , in International Eisteddfod week , as I thought members might like to take a look at the eisteddfod after a ride on the train . |
| 30 | Mrs Smythe looked sympathetic and said : ‘ I was thinking , your husband 's such a kind gentle person — he might like to do a bit of voluntary work . |