Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , because there is reason to suspect that the Prime Minister herself might prefer a devaluation to further expensive and , probably , futile attempts to ‘ buck the markets ’ by penalising her heartland constituency of home owners . |
| 2 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 3 | The diving and pecking routine would have little impact and might expose the nest-owners to serious injury or death . |
| 4 | Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i warned that the government spending required to finance Sharon 's scheme would cause a massive expansion in the budget deficit , and might trigger a return to the high inflation of the early 1980s . |
| 5 | Jackie goes upstairs to phone her husband at work , so that he might make a trip to the shops before visiting hour . |
| 6 | So I might make a trip to . |
| 7 | As Lord Wilberforce said , the GLC might direct fares to be raised or services to be adjusted ; or might make a grant to the LTE . |
| 8 | But Zimbabwe 's example , together with the hope that new seeds might make a difference to humid parts of the continent in the first half of the 1990s ( and to the Sahel in the second half of the decade ) , at least give us something to work for . |
| 9 | For a glimpse of how composite materials might make the transition to mass production , you need to look at innovations like the VARI ( vacuum-assisted resin injection ) process developed by Lotus . |
| 10 | This ritual restored to the mummy all his faculties so that he might enjoy the afterlife to the full . |
| 11 | Wexford backed a little , fearing she might suit the action to the word . |
| 12 | Furthermore , of course , if the government did possess an important informational advantage there would be a strong incentive for the private sector to obtain the same information , so one might expect the advantage to be gradually eroded . |
| 13 | ‘ It might matter a lot to me in my job , ’ Horowitz informed him . |
| 14 | After Something Rotten in Kislev , Sulring Durgul might send the adventurers to Castle Drachenfels in search of one or more of the magical treasures there . |
| 15 | ‘ Now let me have your own passports and anything that might give a clue to your true identities . ’ |
| 16 | " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said . |
| 17 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 18 | He suggested that I might give a dinner to the leading newspaper editors and proprietors , when he could make some statement calculated to neutralise some of the undoubted venom that was then directed at him . |
| 19 | Or I might give the job to someone else . ’ |
| 20 | Alternatively , the duke might give the post to someone who would take it in order to oblige the town council of Glasgow , perhaps even a member of that council , or one of the town 's lawyers . |
| 21 | He hoped , he said , that peace might bring an end to difficult communication . |
| 22 | The Collector fell silent , hoping that these words might bring the meeting to an end without leaving too great a schism between the two factions . |
| 23 | Bevan was the spur to Priestley 's powerful pen : ‘ The sight of a naked minister might bring the conference to some sense of our human situation , ‘ he wrote , ‘ What should be abandoned is deterrence-by-threat-of-retaliation . |
| 24 | Did he , then , believe that she might present a threat to Rob 's engagement — to a girl he liked and approved of ? |
| 25 | A constable has a right to search for a weapon if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the suspect might present a danger to himself or others , for example because he was acting violently or was drunk or suicidal . |
| 26 | The emergence of a new pro-capitalist party in the South from the end of 1985 , the Progressive Democratic Party , might show the extent to which political divisions based on the treaty and within the nationalist component of hegemony may have become problematic , to be partially replaced by an even more explicit concern with increasing the popular wealth and prosperity . |
| 27 | The mine captain might specify a tunnel to be driven 6 ft. high by 5 ft. wide and agree on a bargain of so much per unit of advance invariably the fathom ( 6 ft . ) . |
| 28 | Respondents were therefore also asked : Are there any circumstances in which you might break a law to which you were very strongly opposed ? |
| 29 | One positive result of a newly motivated group would be that some might see the advantages to themselves of returning to full-time education at the age of sixteen . |
| 30 | If it is the case that Hizir Bey did indeed hold a muftilik that , in effect , Fahreddin Acemi was Mufti in Edirne while Hizir Bey was mufti in Istanbul the situation might constitute a parallel to the earlier one of the possibly overlapping tenures of Molla Yegan in Bursa and Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne . |