Example sentences of "might [vb infin] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dwarfs are a bit slow so you might prefer a more steady advance with more war machines to pound the stunties before you go in . |
| 2 | If the individual is in fact acting on behalf of the company as an employee then the principle of vicarious liability would mean that the company ( as potentially the wealthier party ) might make a more attractive defendant from the plaintiff 's point of view . |
| 3 | Another selection of work , or even a revised version of this one , might make a more plausible case . |
| 4 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kirov snapped , vaguely resenting the implication that he might make a purely social call upon the photographer . |
| 5 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 6 | Nevertheless having said that , er I would say that the County Council 's moved as far as it believes it possibly can do to meeting some of the requests of the the district in providing what we consider a generous , and what other people might consider a overly generous allocation of land . |
| 7 | Families of people with a learning disability might welcome a less intense form of case management than that offered to single male schizophrenia sufferers who have a long history of compulsory admission to hospital . |
| 8 | The former might appear a more powerful technique from the point of view of the applicant ; but , comparing it with a ‘ live ’ examination , in which the questioner can frame follow-up questions in terms of the way in which the facts evolve from earlier answers , a United States court has described the framing of questions in advance as ‘ a supreme test of the questioning lawyer 's powers of prescience ’ . |
| 9 | You might feel a little guilty about taking someone else 's cherries , but you might also take one or two from the side and hope that the rightful owner would n't notice . |
| 10 | But Joyce , his creator , is watching him as one of his own timorous school boys might watch a particularly daring companion , admiring , fearful , disapproving , conscious of unresolved guilt , above all divided . |
| 11 | er The overnight low , 7 degrees celsius , 45 fahrenheit , Friday remaining dry , cloud amounts rather variable , and we might see a little hazy sunshine as well , especially in the centre of Oxford , and especially to the east as well . |
| 12 | Where others might see a more complex situation with a conceptual continuum between starvation , hunger , destitution , poverty ( want ) , and inequality , Moore abolishes poverty by dividing it up between the two extremes of the continuum , also at the same time neatly side-stepping discussion of the visible increase in begging , destitution , and homelessness in major British cities . |
| 13 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 14 | But in a few days ’ time it might look a little different . ’ |
| 15 | If such help was countered by generous tax concessions it might become a very attractive proposition indeed . |
| 16 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 17 | At first sight this might sound a little strange . |
| 18 | If a town has 10,000 residents over twenty-one , of whom exactly half are male and half female , a random sample of one tenth of them is unlikely to produce exactly half men and half women , and it might produce a very biased sample of , say , 650 women and 350 men . |
| 19 | Bem ( 1979a ) suggests that paying more attention to the patterns of scoring on BSRl femininity and masculinity subscales might produce a more detailed understanding of the power which particular sex-associated traits have for women and men . |
| 20 | Despite the complexities of their personal chemistry , this might produce a more just assessment of Britain 's second-longest-serving postwar prime minister than anything else that is likely to appear . ) |
| 21 | So a formal democracy , in which the people or the people 's representatives appeared to rule , might conceal a very undemocratic distribution of actual power . |
| 22 | It has occasionally been suggested — notably by Lord Alexander , when he became chairman of NatWest in 1990 — that the Bank might take a more relaxed view , to help industry . |
| 23 | He argued that if a jury had the benefit of ‘ this further evidence ’ it ‘ might take a very different view ’ of Mrs Sutcliffe 's attitude to deals with the Press . |
| 24 | They 're what you might call a very catholic collection : flagellation , paedophilia , coprophilia ( sorry , I forget you 're not an aficionado — the sexual dimension of shit — J. Joyce had leanings that way ) , along with the usual nuns-and-donkeys sort of stuff . |
| 25 | Thus a patient recovering from a hip replacement might develop a bleeding peptic ulcer before discharge , which would need further investigation and treatment . |
| 26 | The suggestion that caused the fuss was a great deal of the DNA in mammalian cells , which does n't it first glance look particularly transposable , might have a similarly selfish character . |
| 27 | Whereas a dog might have a slightly painful leg and it will limp like hell . |
| 28 | Right I think one of the things we 'll be looking at tomorrow is learning styles and people 's preferred learning styles and what we 'll find is that people in this room you 'll all , you might have a slightly different way that you prefer to learn . |
| 29 | Moreover , ASFV and vaccinia virus RNA polymerases might have a slightly different subunit composition , because ASFV encodes a protein similar to the sixth subunit of yeast RNA polymerase II ( RPB6 ; J.M.Rodríguez , R.J.Y. , J.F.Rodríguez and E.V. , unpublished ) , while no similar protein is encoded in the genome of vaccinia virus . |
| 30 | There 's a chance that he might have a moderately common anatomical abnormality of the penis ( present in about one man in 200 ) which makes it difficult to avoid peeing on the floor . |