Example sentences of "might [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it must have been a temptation in poor working-class communities , where virginity in any case was not sacred , where the stigma against extra-marital sex was weak , and where a prostitute could earn in half an hour what a respectable girl might earn in a week . |
| 2 | The notion that an enzyme might exist in a number of forms decided purely on probability is anathema to many scientists . |
| 3 | I suppose you might think in a case now you might think that er er certain people are n't entitled to welfare benefits or something that |
| 4 | The managers might behave in a way that benefits themselves and does not maximize shareholders ' wealth . |
| 5 | Another factor which may influence the chances of conventional videodisc players is that in the 1990s , the collection of high quality , permanent recordings of movies and other programming might appeal in a way it never could in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | It wanted to be seen as an honorary member of the developed world experiencing the sort of hard times you might expect in a country with the world 's biggest foreign debt , $115 billion . |
| 7 | Spreadsheets are also borrowing features from other categories of package , such as Excel 's multi-language spellchecker and thesaurus , which you might expect in a word processor but will be pleasantly surprised to find in a spreadsheet . |
| 8 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 9 | A bee has 5000 facets and would see flowers rather as they might appear in a pointillist painting . |
| 10 | She felt as she always did , not fear , but a kind of cold , dead calm , the way you might feel in a car in which the brakes have gone the moment before the crash . |
| 11 | Might do in a minute . |
| 12 | And yet I risked everything I had worked towards , all the hope of what I might do in a position of real power , for something that was obviously doomed to failure from the start . |
| 13 | One result would be that the Government could not time a general election to its own advantage , going to the country at the moment when it feels most popular ; so general elections might result in a change of Government more often . |
| 14 | Similarly in a wedding speech statements about religion or politics might result in a quarrel or give offence by causing people with opposing views to disagree , insult each other , or try to convert each other . |
| 15 | It might result in a variety of a certain species , but it could never result in a completely new species . |
| 16 | It was the most expensive venture entered into by RTE , and might result in a shortfall . |
| 17 | This could be highly dangerous in itself , and might result in a weakening of the American commitment to Europe . |
| 18 | The recommendation following upon an assessment might result in a child with a hearing disability being placed in a local primary school rather than in a special unit for children who are deaf or partially hearing . |
| 19 | Although this his been the opposite of what was generally intended , there seems to be little sign of any reappraisal of rural planning controls which might result in a reversal of current trends . |
| 20 | A client is entitled to have his affairs treated with complete confidentiality ( save with his consent , or where the solicitor 's duty is overridden by his public duty to disclose matters tending to the commission of a crime or to disclose information in response to a sub poena or witness summons ) and the retained solicitor is under a duty to ensure that his co-partners and staff do nothing which might result in a breach of that rule . |
| 21 | As it is , Bernard has no intention of trading in his guitar for anything you might see in a Kraftwerk video . |
| 22 | Behind her I could see into what is rather optimistically known as the vestry — which is nothing more than a curtained-off area of the floor , rather like what you might see in a hospital casualty ward . |
| 23 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 24 | The paper was of poor quality and had been torn off a pad of the kind you might keep in a kitchen or by a telephone . |
| 25 | Wave after wave of sensation ran through her until she thought she might drown in a tide of pleasure as his tongue and hands explored the soft silkiness of her body , his lips always returning , though , to meet her lips , like a humming-bird seeking nectar . |
| 26 | Any tribunal might err in a finding that it makes : no tribunal is infallible . |
| 27 | When you are able to do this with the major scales , try the various minors , modes and arpeggios , mixing them up as they might occur in a chord progression . |
| 28 | This might occur in a number of ways . |
| 29 | The flickering patterns of the light made her face seem insubstantial ; like something you might glimpse in a dream but which , when you came closer or held a clear light up to see it better , would fade or change back to its true form . |
| 30 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |