Example sentences of "might have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being left alone for a while might have a calming effect . |
| 2 | Nathan Bryce might have a temporary advantage , but no slate-eyed , ruthless , mercenary businessman with a calculator instead of a heart was going to get the better of her . |
| 3 | ‘ He might have a spare can , ’ said Joanne . |
| 4 | The murders might have a political motive . |
| 5 | They had come , they said , to take Klein to lunch and to have a friendly discussion about a matter in which he might have a mutual interest . |
| 6 | You might have a slight problem , because we use the same I 'll I 'll try and get out the cash . |
| 7 | They prepared the resus. room , and when all was ready they informed the patients still waiting that they might have a slight delay due to an emergency that was being brought in . |
| 8 | An executive might have a limited opportunity to see for himself/herself conditions in a foreign country . |
| 9 | Thus , even medieval land law , although conscious of the principle that third parties to a contract can not sue or be sued upon it , recognised that the covenants in leases might have a wider operation than in ordinary contracts . |
| 10 | However , I believe that in the longer run , as production processes become more automated , Kaplan 's activity-based costing concepts will find their main application at the stage of product design and investment selection , although they might have a wider application in service industries , such as the Health Service , and in the control of non-manufacturing costs . |
| 11 | He thinks you might have a typical jug and basin set of the Twenties to Thirties . |
| 12 | Here was her chance to find out exactly what the police were up to — it sounded as if they might have a new lead . |
| 13 | Dear Mr Westgate , I think we should have more footpaths or we might have a good chance of being killed . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd hoped , too , they might have a little peace , ’ he added more pointedly . |
| 15 | But I think we might have a little time to ourselves now , and be d — d to anyone who says we have n't both earned it ! |
| 16 | Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story . |
| 17 | The fact that such monitoring was taking place might have a salutary effect on the behaviour of those responsible for selecting medical staff . |
| 18 | They were understandably concerned to steer a middle course between over-confidence which might lead to an excessive number of candidates and realism which might have a restrictive effect . |
| 19 | Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election . |
| 20 | you might have a grand child to wrap up something for . |
| 21 | The Collector suspected that the Bard 's success in this respect might have a great deal to do with the ballistic advantages stemming from his baldness . |
| 22 | So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful . |
| 23 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 24 | Mrs Hamilton said that she did not discover that she might have a legal action until 1988 . |
| 25 | It may seem strange that lawyers might have a vested interest in making the law move faster . |
| 26 | Now , if we think about actions which might have a beneficial effect on welfare or on conservation , there are some which benefit both at the same time . |
| 27 | This research was stimulated by a recognition that we might have a rare opportunity , through being granted privileged access to assault victims in a busy hospital accident and emergency department , to study serious assaults which may or may not have been reported to the police and , therefore , the definition of which as crimes is still open to question . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , you might have a freakish child . ’ |
| 29 | While they could point to the fact that the town might have a poor bus system , could have better public amenities and that in winter it was dull , they could also point to the good health they enjoyed compared to when they lived in a large industrial city . |
| 30 | On a typical P C you might have a hundred megabyte disk . |