Example sentences of "might [adv] [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Panspermia ’ , as a word , therefore refers to those theories which insist that life came to Earth because ‘ spores ’ were somehow blasted off into space in the hope that they might eventually encounter a life-supporting planet — like Earth . |
| 2 | An archmage , by dint of great effort and much expenditure of time , might eventually obtain a small staff made from the timber of the sapient peartree . |
| 3 | Depending on the terms of the respective partnership agreements of the firms involved , the dissent of any one partner might effectively scupper a proposed merger . |
| 4 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 5 | Such posts might not carry a large salary , for although Henry VIII had evidently raised the wages of household officials , Elizabeth held them down in a period of rising prices . |
| 6 | Such a step might not involve a great deal of additional work in the legislative process , since Bills are already accompanied on presentation to Parliament by an Explanatory and Financial Memorandum , which is frequently well drafted and helpful . |
| 7 | Second , a large reduction in UK emissions might not create a large reduction in the pollution deposited in foreign countries . |
| 8 | The production should achieve an improved balance between pit and stage during its three-night run , but one wonders if three consecutive nights might not overtax a few vocal chords by Sunday morning . |
| 9 | It might not induce a particular favour from a police constable but then , as now , it ensured a level of co-operation . |
| 10 | If he did , he might not get a satisfactory answer . |
| 11 | It was rather like working out the details of one of her plots : circumstances capable of more than one interpretation ; actions which might or might not be innocent ; individuals who might or might not have a genuine motive , the means and opportunity to commit the crime . |
| 12 | Small schools that might not need a full-time officer may be able to share one . |
| 13 | All that stuff about ‘ intent ’ and ‘ knowledge ’ might not save a future Exxon from damages in the American courts , if it transpired that a tanker captain was a known incompetent steering through a dangerous place . |
| 14 | Two unresolved issues fuel speculation that he might not receive a fair trial . |
| 15 | Also yesterday , the Interfax news agency reported in Moscow that the Commonwealth of Independent States might soon create a single body responsible for co-ordinating oil and gas supplies and investment in the energy sector . |
| 16 | Once in a while , maybe on the first night of a stint somewhere , and we 've got the time , we might just do a brief check of some songs . |
| 17 | I might just throw a total number . |
| 18 | Down on the ground the first thing to be heard is a distant squeal , and a sharp-sighted man might just discern a black dot like a bird high in the sky . |
| 19 | In the past , similar games have been used to groom club managers for greater things and Swindon Town might just have a future England manager in their midst . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm staying at Dalian Atkinson 's house tonight and I might just have a little drink or two — hopefully he will be paying . |
| 21 | And when Mrs Amabel Dallam remembered to pay her for all those wedding chemises she might just take a few shillings to a certain bazaar in Leeds where she 'd heard good dress-lengths were to be had at bargain prices and make herself a new dress for Christmas . |
| 22 | I do n't need to copy it down when initially build it but er I might just put a little bit of extra work in I can make so and can copy it down . |
| 23 | On the far bank they might just discern the silhouette of a straining horse on the tow-path ; from nearby they might just hear a discreet splosh as the eel-fishermen cast off and slipped out into the stream . |
| 24 | A company that paid the telephone bills of 250 service engineers might easily face a sizeable demand for employer 's and employees ' NIC , especially if back years have not been dealt with according to the letter of the law . |
| 25 | Figure 1 follows through only one function in each column , but one might easily imagine a similar division and re-division of any of the other six macro-functions , or of any of the resulting sub-categories . |
| 26 | Thus a person who carries on a VAT exempt business ( such as a bookmaker , dentist , doctor , funeral director or registered nursing home ) might deliberately start a small-scale taxable business and hope to take advantage of the rules . |
| 27 | The office staff and the surgeons used the list as a pool of work they would dip into — indeed a surgeon might deliberately choose a recent addition to the list over someone who had waited far longer on the grounds of greater urgency … |
| 28 | But this definition might conceivably cover a pastoral or nomadic society which , indeed , found a bond of union in the patriarch or head of the family who , in some sort , discharged the powers of government . |
| 29 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 30 | We might , if i if it 's a nice day we might possibly have a little walk out somewhere or run out somewhere , or something |