Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory the increased prostaglandin synthesis seen with Helicobacter pylori might explain such a reduction in minor mucosal injury . |
| 2 | The right ski might make all the difference . |
| 3 | The sort of choice available is explained on pages 125–131 , but a new refrigerator or fridge-freezer , the addition of a microwave oven , or purchase of a portable dishwasher if there is no room for a plumbed-in version , might make all the difference to your own work load . |
| 4 | That half might make all the difference . |
| 5 | ‘ Ships such as the traders use might make such a journey given that the conditions are not adverse . |
| 6 | Social reform might assist such a victory , but it had to be of a kind which the Lords would not reject . |
| 7 | We might expect such a king to have been beatified upon his death ( his ancestor had been St Arnulf ) but Charles ' indifference to Christian morality prevented this . |
| 8 | We might expect such a recognition to be especially difficult in strong cultures , where investment of self in the work of the firm is most profound . |
| 9 | If the DNA-dependent phosphorylation of c-Jun is of physiological significance then one might expect that the presence of Jun binding sites ( FSEs ; refs. 24 and 25 ) within the activating DNA would increase kinase efficiency . |
| 10 | Surely Dysart had never suggested he might do such a thing ? |
| 11 | I might spend half an hour , choosing a drink now you realise ! |
| 12 | The bulk of this chapter is , therefore , written with the possibility in mind that the reader might use such a system to help identify gaps in any present personal library , or to lay the structure for a proposed collection of books . |
| 13 | An independent Central Bank might provide such a restraint , and so might the constitutional amendment , suggested in Friedman and Friedman ( 1980 ) , which obliges the government to expand the money stock at some fixed rate and which would make cheating on this obligation illegal . |
| 14 | A derrick winch , even a coffee-grinder in the galley might provide all the impulse it requires . ’ |
| 15 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 16 | Even a woman might secure such an appointment if she were an influential tenant-in-chief : Isabel Countess of Arundel kept the castle and forest of Bere Porchester in Hampshire from 1268 until 1272 . |
| 17 | ‘ For you , dear lady , ’ Googol replied gallantly , ‘ I might attempt such a challenge , though that is n't my usual style . ’ |
| 18 | But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin . |
| 19 | And if playing is too easy , it might take all the fun out of it . |
| 20 | But it might take half a minute to combine this range from this relatively large file . |
| 21 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
| 22 | HIT always needs at least three arguments ( the hitter , the person hit , and the thing used to hit — we might call these the AGENT , the ACTED-UPON and the INSTRUMENT ) . |
| 23 | Nor did the fact that the defendants had a direct financial interest in securing a sale of Vertigo constitute a breach of fiduciary duty since the contract of agency envisaged that they might have such a conflict of interest . |
| 24 | The man 's desires are immediately revealed : ( " That man would be well off indeed who might have such a maiden as his wife " ) |
| 25 | I think basically having having heard the argument put forward from from both sides what what we 're really talking about is a is a policy that in in terms of its support from the districts it depends whether or not any particular district council might have such a use for the policy . |
| 26 | If only they 'd had as much sex as Pulp , this childish dry wank might have half a hint of the lascivious , mobile intercourse it so pathetically promises . |
| 27 | The themes she thought might indicate such a fear were : |
| 28 | Now obviously you can translate the idea of something being a preventative about illness or sickness , but it 's very difficult to suggest in idiomatic modern English that roses can be a protection against evils , because you really , we really do n't have that kind of concept , normally now , although there are many uses of erm , groups of people who might retain such a concept , and if something like that arises , you obviously ca n't make it idiomatic , because there 's just no way it 's going to work idiomatically in English . |
| 29 | As there is no way of knowing how many synonyms exist for any given home address , an unsuccessful search might require half the file to be scanned on average . |
| 30 | The Imperial 's staff , torn between a natural amour propre that a rival team had been imported to cook for the Prince of Wales and relief that they would not be responsible for royalty 's displeasure ( yet with the ignoble hope that they might get all the credit ) , watched anxiously to ensure that the incoming team was competent . |