Example sentences of "might [verb] a [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 | For example from the relative disaster in automobile manufacturing might arise a new concept of the car that is amazingly successful . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Once there , he could claim she was dead ; in the West , she might build a new life . |
| 7 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Here is an example of how the changes might affect a small business , with a 15% phased increase each year . |
| 13 | Still , ‘ Reading-wise it 's got to be Bookwise ’ might make a useful slogan . |
| 14 | Rufus might make a good interrogator . |
| 15 | This might make a good science fiction story — The White Cloud , it could be called — but for our purposes a computer model like the monkey/Shakespeare model is easier to grasp . |
| 16 | ‘ You can argue that a change in rates might make a decisive turnround in the next six months or so … but recent behaviour of the foreign exchanges suggests that government control is not possible . |
| 17 | A friend treated her to a pukkah drinks-dispensing butler who asked if he might make a personal remark before teetering off into the small hours . |
| 18 | In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit . |
| 19 | It seemed at first that Hepworth , too , might make a telling contribution when he began with three maidens , in the course of which he comprehensively bowled Pearson . |
| 20 | A stressful situation , such as having to catch a train or make a speech , might make a normal person 's stomach churn a little , but in the IBS sufferer it can provoke a violent attack of diarrhoea . |
| 21 | 2 ringers do n't make a right , although they might make a mainstream centre left traditional Conservative . |
| 22 | As the bears go after salmon , not sticks , one might make a powerful ally in the Fishermen 's War . |
| 23 | like , I might make a determined effort , but I know what a |
| 24 | On the other hand , it was sometimes difficult to be certain of this , for there were some lairds who took a very unfavourable view of such officers , and there was a danger that a politician who desired to win a friend might make a mortal enemy . |
| 25 | ‘ I might make a little bit more than a social worker and I get to enjoy myself with my clients ’ . |
| 26 | The superficial similarities might make a lesser man than Mikhail Gorbachev tremble . |
| 27 | Otherwise one might make a statistical correction or even hope that its effect is small , i.e. discrimination might be good enough even when light is lost due to blocking . |
| 28 | Course , I 'll never talk to you again if you catch the big feller , but might make a fun afternoon . |
| 29 | There were two routes to follow : on the one hand he could try and solve the murder , but that might make a bad situation worse . |
| 30 | There is a range of potential responses : the delimitation may be respected and acted upon , for example through application for mining licences to either A or B according to the terms of the agreement ; other States might tacitly acquiesce in the delimitation ; others might make a formal protest that it conflicts with a legal interest of their own , for example , claims of sovereign rights over part of the same area . |