Example sentences of "of [noun sg] might [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though fewer than three thousand people are now engaged in whaling , directly and indirectly , their loss of support might trigger a loss of confidence among other rural people and jeopardise the LDP 's increasingly frail hold on government ; an office they have held for more than 25 years . |
| 2 | Similarly , the buyer 's terms of purchase might contain a provision to deal with late delivery : ( a ) If the Seller fails to deliver the goods in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Buyer is entitled to terminate the contract with immediate effect . |
| 3 | That kind of money might interest a little guy like you , but to me its just insurance money . |
| 4 | Collections may be made quite spontaneously ; a sudden gust of wind might produce an assortment of fallen leaves or petals to be gathered , as this teacher found : |
| 5 | Voorhies ( 1969 ) suggested that much of this difference is due to body size differences and that differences in sorting of bone by ease of transportation might give an indication of distance travelled . |
| 6 | In 1883 the German physician Emil Kraepelin ( 1856–1926 ) , who was very influential in psychiatric circles , suggested that studying the intoxicating effects of hashish might aid the understanding of other kinds of mental disorder . |
| 7 | This additional activation of cat might cause the logogen for cot to be more highly activated than the correct logogen for cot : cot would be incorrectly identified as cat . |
| 8 | Even the indignation of satire might assume the same moral perspective as that of the order being challenged , or at least an alternative to it . |
| 9 | If a person suffers loss or damage as a result of a defect in some product , whether it be hardware or software , one or more of the following areas of law might provide a remedy : |
| 10 | They looked for abstract relationships between the different structures , but they had little incentive to ask what kind of circumstance might lead a species to change when exposed to a new environment . |
| 11 | An awareness of God 's contrivance in the intricate designs of nature might confound the atheist , but it did not point him toward the God who had entered into covenant with sinful humanity . |
| 12 | These observations persuaded Mary-Jeanne Kreek , Jack Fishman , and their colleagues at New York 's Rockefeller University , that patients with a history of constipation might produce an excess of their own opioids ( Lancet , 1983 , vol 1 , p261 ) . |
| 13 | This was a gambler 's reward , because the chance of war might leave a man as either the recipient or the payer of a large sum . |
| 14 | For Japan , which has taken the lead in the Cambodian operation , one more act of generosity might ensure the success of its most ambitious post-war venture into international affairs . |
| 15 | In the 1960s a series of papers suggested that dementia sufferers who were " misplaced " in the wrong type of facility might have a poorer outcome . |
| 16 | If the slim person has eaten a really large meal , he or she will naturally be very full and will perhaps not eat again until hunger really returns ; in addition this type of person might take a little exercise to ‘ work off ’ the food . |
| 17 | Now the remarkable circumstance , recorded by Anna Dostoevsky in her memoirs , is that her husband had a foreboding of political disturbances at the Academy , and fearing that his brother-in-law ‘ because of his youthfulness and weakness of character might take an active part in them ’ , he persuaded Anna 's mother it would be a good thing if the young man came to them in Dresden : which he did in October of 1869 , the month before Ivanov was murdered . |
| 18 | A lot of vodka might numb the pain in my hand . |
| 19 | Broomhead did not see fit to let Aggie know this and hoped that a change of abode might revitalise the tomcat 's flagging performance . |
| 20 | If not holding , then your initial direction of approach might require a procedure turn to bring you onto the outbound leg heading . |
| 21 | For instance , the fith of Febry might see the Pry Minister on an itinery talking to prone anti-marketeers , including trade unists and finey , percy opening a strorny new libry building . |
| 22 | Would you like to er , make any comments on er , how a change of government might effect the Westminster Press ? |
| 23 | Limiting the studies included to those that use the same measure of quality of life might lend a table some face validity . |
| 24 | A sense of detachment might produce a sharper view , but he felt unreal , as if the scene he was viewing was nothing more than a backdrop at a theatre which might roll itself up and disappear when the present act was over . |
| 25 | Thus , for instance , a set of terms of sale might require the buyer to take delivery of the goods on receipt of notice that they are ready for delivery and then provide : If the Buyer fails to take delivery of the goods in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Seller shall be entitled to terminate the contract with immediate effect . |
| 26 | For instance , a contract of sale might include a term allowing the seller to alter the delivery date . |
| 27 | After the previous Armed Forces minister , Archie Hamilton , was replaced by Mr Hanley , Mr Brandreth asked for a meeting in the hope that a change of minister might mean a change of heart over the pay office . |
| 28 | Jenner wondered if the unanaesthetised de-clawing may have had some effect on this , and he offered the theory that an alternative source of pain might cause a distraction from the tail-crushing effects of caudate stimulation . |
| 29 | Another degree of restriction might take the form of a bequest . |
| 30 | For example , a magical liquid which needs a component of ethereality might allow the links to be separated , but the adventurers will have to find an Alchemist or Scholar to tell them of this , and then they must find the ingredients for the magical liquid . |