Example sentences of "might [verb] a different [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Each of these possible explanations for the missing 10% might demand a different strategy from the school , if the attendance rate is to be improved .
2 In the end , although the margin of the score might suggest a different story , the slaughter resembled an act of euthanasia .
3 Mr Robertson said it was ‘ a reasonable prospect ’ to suppose the House of Lords might take a different view of the case , and that should be taken into account .
4 Neither the British nor French governments show any sign of bailing the company out although a future Labour government might take a different view .
5 But if the Martian truly were a little Green man , he might take a different view .
6 ‘ But now I am concerned that he might have a different response this year ! ’
7 In a few years ' time hopefully , we might have a different situation where we have people like Helmut Cole and the right wing in France trying to block things that er , a British Labour government wants to do .
8 The possibility that a word might have a different meaning in another context threatens to relativize the ‘ master metaphor ’ on which this society is grounded .
9 I , I sort of heard Debbie and Chris talking the other day , and I might have got it totally mixed up , but I reckon , I heard Chris saying that , well basically what I gathered was that Andy might have a different father to Chris and it was Andy 's father that 's died , right ?
10 In the boys ' groups , any recognition that images of girls might have a different value from images of boys was met with intense embarrassment .
11 It is not merely that the speaker wants to create a good impression in the sight of others , who might have a different set of values .
12 The imaginary ones might have a different number of legs or eyes , some with tails , others without .
13 The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept .
14 Melanie might have a different tale to tell .
15 Beats varying by social class might mean a different perception .
16 Indeed it might have-in a different situation where some or all of the rest of the causal circumstance for e was missing .
17 None of us , for example , would subscribe to belief in strict materialism in theory , but a searching look at our homes and our lifestyles might tell a different story .
18 Clearly , there is an element of political value judgment in such decisions : in 1921 a judge held that reasonable citizens would not think less of a trade unionist if it were claimed that he had worked during a strike : some juries might reach a different decision today .
19 Mr Justice Stegmann , who sentenced her in May , said that it was possible that another court might reach a different verdict .
20 so that the new flesh that we require will be a different sort of flesh than we 've got now probably in the new order or whatever it is , you know , we might require a different sort of flesh might n't we ?
21 ‘ He might get a different report from our gunners .
22 Erm in terms of if you , if you 've got a very strong presence you might adopt a different line than if you have n't .
23 ‘ You might adopt a different view when you become a mother , ’ Mrs Sanderson chipped in quietly .
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