Example sentences of "might [adv] [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I might just throw a total number . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm staying at Dalian Atkinson 's house tonight and I might just have a little drink or two — hopefully he will be paying . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Bloomsbury House , asked to contribute £35 towards books , told her she was too late that term ( it was November ) and that she might possibly get a small emergency grant for the summer term ( six months ahead ) if she still needed it . |
| 22 | There was a distinct possibility that it could sink without trace , weighed down by listeners ' indifference , or , of course , it might possibly cause a public outcry , disgusting not merely Tunbridge Wells . |
| 23 | On the left , Dunbar held his hand and re-deployed his archers to pick off any strays who might still offer a safe target . |
| 24 | In my own case , the model of transition through liminality might still produce a recognizable replication of the move through a rite de passage : |
| 25 | It does n't get at what you want either but it 's one of the system that we 've got So if you write something th that you for a piece of , an essay that you got say a two one for and then you write an appalling piece , you might still get a two one for it under exam conditions |
| 26 | There was , too , an underlying legal change : even though arbitration might still play a crucial part in their actual proceedings , courts gradually inclined to perceive justice as lying in precedent , or principle . |
| 27 | Although the " offices " might be peripatetic , going outside Rome with the pope , and although the pope might still play a dominant personal part , only a total reversal of policy — an annihilation of the authority the papacy had set itself to achieve during the previous 150 years — could have stemmed the march towards authority and central administrative offices . |
| 28 | How distressed and worried is industry in those regions that we might mistakenly have a Labour Government , which would do so much damage to inward investment ? |
| 29 | Already he was worried about their stores lasting until the Saturday when he might reasonably claim a few shillings to tide him over ; Emily 's mother had given them a box of stuff , sausages , bread , some tea , butter , bacon — but it would have to be spun out . |
| 30 | The constant species of small islands in lochs of Lewis , Harris and the Uists are Sorbus aucuparia , Salix aurita or S. cinerea , Rubus fruticosus and ryopteris dilatata and these might also represent a degraded form of the same sub-community . |