Example sentences of "might [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thus set about preparing for the days ahead as , I imagine , a general might prepare for a battle : I devised with utmost care a special staff plan anticipating all sorts of eventualities ; I analysed where our weakest points lay and set about making contingency plans to fall back upon in the event of these points giving way ; I even gave the staff a military-style ‘ pep-talk ’ , impressing upon them that , for all their having to work at an exhausting rate , they could feel great pride in discharging their duties over the days that lay ahead . |
| 2 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 3 | Ruth planned to find somewhere in Dudley where she and her grandfather might stay for the night . |
| 4 | It was a syndrome I had observed in other service marriages , not least in that of my own parents , and I have sometimes thought what a good subject it might make for a novel or play . |
| 5 | sought orders under section 6(2) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit for the purpose of restoring the investors to the position in which they were before the transactions were entered into and under section 61(1) directing the solicitors to pay such sums as the court thought fit or to take such steps as the court might direct for the purpose of remedying the first defendant 's contravention of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 6 | Four friends will be keeping pace with him on the ground , carrying all the spares he might need for a flight which is expected to last for a month . |
| 7 | Whatever sympathy one might feel for the restaurateur in the present case ( or for any other defendant who might suffer economic loss , social ostracism , shame or intimidation as a result of publication of details pending charges which may or may not result in his conviction ) nothing in the present case comes close to satisfying Lord Diplock 's test . |
| 8 | He had no intention of drinking the stuff , but it might do for a shave . |
| 9 | The broom was there , sawdust , a pile of dirty pots , two kegs of ale , but nothing that might do for a skirt . |
| 10 | which is enough to do four little little pictures I thought I might do for the craft thing in September , erm you know our flower festival and erm in which case I 'd have had to purchase a few of your little thingies that 's pretty . |
| 11 | He had shown what a little flair might do for the army as a whole . |
| 12 | She had the air of one who might head for the pavement and start writhing at any minute . |
| 13 | Labour leader John Smith told Mr Major : ‘ I am sure that the whole House will share the feeling of sadness which you have expressed and will also share the hope that a greater degree of privacy might result for the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children in what would be a difficult time for any family . ’ |
| 14 | Based on the assumption that the child has been in contact with at least some of the usual and varied sources of instruction and indoctrination , an answer from the parent along the following lines might carry for the child a ring of truth sufficient for him to accept , and be reassured . |
| 15 | Celia , what about the fabrics that you might use for a baby ? |
| 16 | And then , you know you think well erm , this sort of the area we 're going , I might look for a person , you know , particular types of person . |
| 17 | More precisely , we might look for a set of conditions or circumstances which lead to the expectation that Creole would be used in an interaction . |
| 18 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 19 | The conception of musica reservata ( see p. 175 ) might suffice for the relationship of music and words in church , where Zarlino 's rules for verbal expression and underlaying words to music ( in his Istituzioni armoniche , Venice , 1558 ) were still valid . |
| 20 | Mrs Geary paused , as a musician might pause for a climax , while the water in her saucepan regained its just heat . |
| 21 | The two biggest changes for graduates who might return for the Convocation weekend in July will be the sale of the Refectory in Queen 's Road and the acquisition of the Hawthorns Hotel in Woodland Road . |
| 22 | If the government of Stalinvast realized the import of the death-fleet 's arrival , the orbital monitors might resist for a while . |
| 23 | One councillor who attended the meeting , however , believed much still depended on whether BS might apply for a Department of Transport grant to enable the rail service to continue . |
| 24 | Have any events taken place in the last ten years which might call for a reassessment of that view or a more optimistic response in your work ? |
| 25 | well erm , I 'll see if this one 's a boy , probably in a couple of years we might try for a girl , I do n't know |
| 26 | Now Archbold might try for a double in tomorrow 's 5,000 metres event , though he is also hoping to break the course record in the Vaux Old Pit races 10K at Sunderland on Wednesday night . |
| 27 | He might read for a while but he would not come downstairs , would not hear anything if she were quiet . |
| 28 | The bankruptcy of the plaintiff in an action which the trustee might maintain for the benefit of the creditors does not cause the action to abate if , within such reasonable time as the court orders , the trustee elects to continue the action and to give security . |
| 29 | Spycatcher lawyer Malcolm Turnbull said : ‘ Australians are passionately proud of their country , and , no matter what respect they might have for the Queen , they want their country 's symbols to be Australian . ’ |
| 30 | Or he might aim for a minority government dependent on the votes of six Arab members of the Knesset . |