Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barney might experience flashes of impatience and anger , say and do things he would later regret , but she could not believe him capable of the blind , destructive hatred that had driven the knife into Angy 's throat . |
| 2 | General results in the theory of computation might throw light on animal perception , by showing that a given type of representation in principle could not express a certain type of information , or that it would he enormously less efficient than most other type . |
| 3 | We have looked at abilities , experience and goals as they might influence behaviour at work . |
| 4 | One was concerned with the measurement of other intellectual abilities , apart from those revealed in standard IQ tests , that might explain differences in originality . |
| 5 | More volunteers might make way for evening opening , Saturday morning opening , outreach work or specialist work , but some of the West Midlands workers expressed a fear of working unsupervised . |
| 6 | 5.6 Reactions to violence will always involve stress and might include feelings of anger , resentment , disgust and rejection , as well as depression , sadness , failure , self-blame and guilt . |
| 7 | If it is not due to diagnostic suspicion bias then postulated mechanisms might include changes in gall bladder contractility associated with the progesterone content , or increased cholesterol saturation of bile due to the oestrogen content . |
| 8 | Follow up work to the study of original sources might include elements of reconstruction or re-creation , often drawing on and synthesising information from a range of sources . |
| 9 | Talk and general discussion might include ideas of number , shape and comparisons . |
| 10 | This might include data on morbidity and mortality , uptake of preventative medicine , service use and availability , at both primary and hospital level . |
| 11 | They should be based primarily on resource materials , which might include samples of language data ( spoken , written , literary , non-literary , standard , non-standard , English and other languages ) and facts and figures about languages in Britain and around the world , and associated activities which are essentially concrete and problem-based , so that the pupils can make their own enquiries , and so that the teacher can learn alongside the pupils . |
| 12 | Try to remember to put your jewellery on last when getting ready ; hairsprays , nail enamels and make-up could tarnish the gold and also you might catch rings on zip fasteners or earrings and necklaces on clothing . |
| 13 | The question then arises as to how one might translate Swift into Arabic when the hallmark of his style is a commonplace feature of Arabic prose . |
| 14 | This was particularly true of our proposals about knowledge about language , for some teachers might be ill at ease with this new material and might welcome programmes of study based on drills and rote-learning . |
| 15 | We might expect students of dance or music to engage in practical activities , but their theoretical studies are , by and large , directly related to those activities . |
| 16 | ‘ You mean , I dare say , that , having given you supper , I might expect payment in kind . ’ |
| 17 | Their bid was blocked on grounds that seemed contrived : the MMC purported to be worried , eg , that Lonrho might flood Harrods with nylon sheets made by one of its subsidiaries . |
| 18 | Indeed , as a leading member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal , he conceived it his duty to draw attention to any person or event which might bring science into disrepute . |
| 19 | Within the inner-city study , we believed that the language might show patterns of differentiation between older and younger speakers and between the sexes , but we did not know that it would , or if it did , what the precise differences would be . |
| 20 | Um I think that um y'know it 's often quite intimidating to be confronted with y'know sort of say eighty odd questions , if you were to use that many , erm so if you if you kind of break it up a bit in some way and have different headed sections with slightly different format questions it might y'know kind of help people through it as it were . |
| 21 | Moreover the assay requires immunoprecipitation that might be detrimental for detection of proteins ( other than bZIP proteins ) that only weakly associate with CREB or that might prevent recognition of CREB by the CREB antobody . |
| 22 | By excluding from view the potentialities provided by wealth and knowledge for securing power through contracts , the choice theory ignores precisely those matters which might render organizations of power established by contracts suspect . |
| 23 | Here the total absence of signals led to every kind of confusion , but its point was a testing of the function of such signals : did the normal ‘ framing ’ of such situations , which at the restaurant table might follow word by word and action by action the scene of a play , inhibit or qualify the responses of ‘ others ’ / ‘ an audience ’ ? |
| 24 | If you are artistic , you might see patterns of light and colour . |
| 25 | In other words , the context-specificity of latent inhibition might constitute evidence in favour of the retrieval theories of the phenomenon discussed in the preceding section of this chapter . |
| 26 | Yet by now Battle Brothers were as mastiffs straining on the leash ; and it began to seem that the cadets might become Scouts in time to participate in the great endeavour , should they be so fortunate . |
| 27 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |
| 28 | The idea was proposed to Priestley that his carbonated water , which could be prepared on board , might provide doses of carbon dioxide and thus prevent scurvy ( as well as make the distilled sea water more palatable ) . |
| 29 | The examples given suggest a flexible scheme whereby criterion statements might be amended in the light of pupils ' difficulties and the identified difficulty factors might provide foci for teaching . |
| 30 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |