Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many scientists , campaigners at Friends of the Earth in London ( including the author ) had assumed that the absence of strong evidence for forest decline in Britain might be due to a combination of climate ( moist conditions good for growing trees ) coupled with the possibility that magnesium in rain coming in from the sea might counteract leaching by acid rain . |
| 2 | Perhaps I would n't like to stay there very long , because , as I said , I might want to go to school again . |
| 3 | To build up his pot , because he might have a bad month , or he might want to go on holiday . |
| 4 | ‘ That it is a sort of material women might buy to serve as piping on their dresses , gowns or cloaks . |
| 5 | Other topics might include moving from practice into industry , part-time working or going back to work full time while caring for a young family . |
| 6 | As I had come to know a number of rectors and vicars in the course of my journeys , for reasons which I have mentioned , Eliot questioned me about what he felt might he a mounting danger , namely that the Church might seek to increase by chauvinism what it appeared to be losing in spirituality : and indeed the vicar of my own village had been upbraided by a group of parishioners for not preaching sermons directly furthering the war effort , which Eliot said was tantamount to making him into an unpaid official of the MOI . |
| 7 | Even if you 're upright you might need to call for assistance . |
| 8 | Now in order to move yourself forward you might need to go to excess , you might need at least to tolerate excesses . |
| 9 | No one was quite sure whether this was a good idea , however , as some of the old party 's members refused to recognise the new party , though they hedged their bets by saying they might consider applying for membership . |
| 10 | Peter Robinson , a Democratic Unionist MP , said people were sceptical of ‘ the idea of rogue cops going around to take out IRA terrorists — it 's the sort of stuff you might expect to see on television with Clint Eastwood ’ . |
| 11 | Lastly you might choose to rely on advice to farmers and fertiliser manufacturers . |
| 12 | A famous early Christian image compared the universe to a tune which at any moment the creator might choose to end with silence . |
| 13 | Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter . |
| 14 | For most individuals the ie grouping and the village were of prime importance , but these might become overlaid by membership of other groups , for example , as a result of occupation or education . |
| 15 | In stooks standing for too long in wet weather , the bottoms of sheaves might become moussed as dampness set in . |
| 16 | On the areas that we might like to think about design and also delivering training is the different ways people learn and to do that go through learning styles . |
| 17 | Giving of yourself should never be linked to what you might hope to gain in return . |
| 18 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your guilt you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your guilt feelings and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 19 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inadequacy , you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your feelings of inadequacy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 20 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your inhibition you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your inhibition and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 21 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your jealousy you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your jealousy and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 22 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your worry you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your worry and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 23 | The marking of Part-numbers only comes into its own when text containing a Part-number is passed by Guide to the dispatch system : the dispatch system can readily identify part numbers within the material passed to it , and there is no ambiguity between true part numbers and other strings of characters which might happen to look like part numbers . |
| 24 | Matters which the partners might wish to settle in advance include their rights to bid for partnership assets ( since the court would probably not grant the necessary authority to one only of the former partners against the objection of the others ) , the transfer of assets to individual partners in specie , the manner in which sales of partnership property should be conducted ( by private treaty or at auction ) , advertisement of the dissolution , and provisions conferring special authority upon individual partners in any respect during the winding-up of the firm . |
| 25 | The Queen 's Bench held that he had offended because in the future he might wish to tender for council house construction . |
| 26 | As you can see the Parish Council are totally opposed to the siting of the mast in this particular position , and they would welcome any comments you might wish to make in support of their case . |
| 27 | Of course the reverse may be true in some cases — but at least you are now aware of which areas of yourself you might wish to change in order for your Outer Face to conform with your Inner one . |
| 28 | Understandably , he was curious as to the reason for my enquiries , so I told him you were a distant relative , a spinster who had no other relatives and who might wish to get in touch with him . |
| 29 | The useless girl that I was might have grown without diversion , etiolated and bland like a stalk of grass under a stone , from those early days , represented still by the dolls and bears that lay on the cupboard shelves . |
| 30 | Some other teams might have quit at half-time — not us . ’ |