Example sentences of "they might [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controversy surrounding the work of Telman Gdlyan and Nikolai Ivanov , chief corruption investigators with the USSR Procurator General 's office , came to a head on April 18 when the USSR Supreme Soviet voted to refuse a request by the Procuracy that it rescind the mandates of the two men to sit in the Congress of People 's Deputies , so that they might face criminal charges relating to coercion of suspects and witnesses . |
| 2 | Should we wonder that they might influence some children to think that the real world is all like that ? |
| 3 | He can play , if Wallace was more inclined to work WITH his partner they might strike more times ( he 's a selfish git ) . |
| 4 | Not even all Conservative politicians were happy with the implications of the notion of compulsory sales , particularly as they might affect rural areas , and certain safeguards have had to be incorporated . |
| 5 | That they might make other choices than the ones we wish them to make ? |
| 6 | They might make special efforts for these children to maximise the chances that they will have some sort of positive experience in their school lives . |
| 7 | ‘ … Money is necessary to our plan , ’ he was soon telling Joseph Cottle ; and from a volume of poems they might raise sixty guineas . |
| 8 | They were n't right for each other and maybe a marriage would last a shorter time than a more informal , less intense liaison ; brief and bitter , both of them on proximity fuses with things coming rapidly to a crunch , rather than something more drawn out , where they might spend long periods apart and so forget how much they hated being together , and enjoy the fleeting , passionate moments of reunion … |
| 9 | Nora had wanted to take Constance down to Louise in Surrey for her birthday so that it could be a family celebration but she decided to wait until the start of the summer holidays in order that they might spend several weeks there . |
| 10 | We would appeal to anyone who thinks they might know these bikers to come forward . ’ |
| 11 | At last , however , the Radio One crew were told they might get 10 minutes maximum down at the Disney Studios where Madonna as rehearsing for her world tour . |
| 12 | huh , from Cleethorpes I should n't think they 'd get much from there , oh they might get some ships might they ? |
| 13 | She took the view that if one gave women the chance to do current affairs they might produce current affairs ' programmes that were different from men 's . |
| 14 | Or they might shelter piratical degenerates who had become creatures of Chaos . |
| 15 | Their concern is to understand the mechanisms that keep capitalism going and make it resistant to challenges — so that they might strengthen those challenges . |
| 16 | Léonie lifted up the wooden flap and peered into what always seemed to her like a bird-house in which they might find golden eggs . |
| 17 | So therefore if an em an employment officer visited twenty employers in a day instead of ten , er they might have two contracts instead of one . |
| 18 | Such routes should increase in density towards the town centre , where they might have weather-protection canopies and be served by what Ramsay has called ‘ pedestrian service points ’ . |
| 19 | Another twenty minutes , he thought , then perhaps at last they might have some answers . |
| 20 | Explaining this they went on to say that perhaps if they did not have to put up with Keith 's trying behaviour every day until evening they might have fewer rows . |
| 21 | Certainly they might have different feelings . |