Example sentences of "it might [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 2 | It might give one power . |
| 3 | It might appear that chaining or tagging would always be preferable to the simpler system of storing records in the next available position . |
| 4 | The fact that a wealth tax bore heavily on someone who turned out to lose all his capital would not on an ex ante basis be regarded as indicating a regressive impact , but in terms of measured income ( allowing for the loss ) it might appear that way . |
| 5 | At best , it might offer local television worthy of the name . |
| 6 | If roads were contained within a perspex tunnel and regularly patrolled by wildlife wardens , armed with splints and bandages and trained in every kind of veterinary first aid , I suppose it might go some way towards reducing this tragic toll . |
| 7 | It might cover any sounds SHe might make . |
| 8 | It might cover secret processes and trade secrets . |
| 9 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 10 | Broadcasters themselves were also aware that it was easy to overdo the attention given to politicians and political news ; it might make some politicians happy , but not the audience . |
| 11 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 12 | erm I sometimes feel erm that erm in fact = it would be a good idea when I see people doing things which I regard as immediately dangerous , but I think it might make considerable difficulties for the relationship between the police and the motoring public which erm are already at times very strained , and I 'm not sure , for some of the reasons erm that Norbert has suggested , that it 's erm necessarily a very erm happy system . |
| 13 | ‘ It might make interesting reading for the over 30 sporting population , ’ he says . |
| 14 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 15 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 16 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 17 | David , from Torrington , Devon , joined three pals for the evening , despite being told it might involve heavy drinking . |
| 18 | The truth is that they had a narcissistic preoccupation with their own past ; any information they could glean about ‘ savage society ’ was eagerly seized upon in the hope that it might shed further light on their own origins . |
| 19 | Only a couple of months ago some inside the Federal Reserve thought it might loosen monetary policy this summer one last time . |
| 20 | ‘ It might do more harm than good , ’ he said , alarmed at the amount of blood running down Meredith 's face . |
| 21 | It is important to note the implications of not calling the police ; for example , insofar as it might affect future insurance claims . |
| 22 | But depending on what is behind that material , those reasons , if you will , there may be — it might change this case completely [ author 's italics ] . |
| 23 | It feels almost as though it might stay this way for ever . ’ |
| 24 | It might bring more people into the area . |
| 25 | There 's only one thing , it might mean more part time jobs for college leavers and things if they go to work on a Sunday in the big stores and they did , give them a foot up to start a job , then get taken on you know as . |
| 26 | On the other hand , it might mean less CO 2 . |
| 27 | The employers can afford to bow on principle ; IG Metall says it might accept less money . |
| 28 | But there 's no way I intentionally tried to hurt him , even though it might look that way . |
| 29 | But while tanks revved in Lima 's main square , Washington shut off aid to Peru , worth nearly £200 million , and signalled it might veto new loans from multilateral institutions . |
| 30 | The renewal in 1960 provoked a major political crisis and a storm of protest throughout Japan , not only from those opposed to the treaty per se , but from those who feared it might encourage Japanese rearmament and the placing of nuclear weapons on Japanese soil . |