Example sentences of "it might [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 2 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 3 | Her voice was stretched very tight , as though it might snap at any moment and tumble her into tears . |
| 4 | It might help at this point to ask the children a further question : " What might happen if the thief ( the rightful owner of the jewels/the alien in the above examples ) does or does not ( depending on the drama ) manage to steal the " keys " ? " |
| 5 | It might work at international level but at club level you need a hardworking manager with a good business head . |
| 6 | The , we did er our baths were dating from the nineteen fourteen period and they were getting rather old the , the , the boiler was n't too good and we were afraid that it might burst at some time . |
| 7 | The establishment of such a correlation is not as easy as it might seem at first , because lead is only one ( and probably not one of the more important ) influences on the behaviour and intelligence of children , so that the correlation would at best be low , and hence require a large number of cases to be established at an acceptable level of statistical significance . |
| 8 | This was not quite as outrageous as it might seem at first . |
| 9 | And so it might seem at first that the anorexic is striving to maintain worthlessness . |
| 10 | This is not as heretical a suggestion as it might seem at first sight . |
| 11 | Implausible as it might seem at first , there is now good evidence that nitric oxide ( NO ) is an important endogenous dioactive substance . |
| 12 | It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand ( being crucial to market growth ) and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability ( being the only thing preventing a phenomenal profits bonanza ) . |