Example sentences of "it might [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougal wondered if the absence of upper-case letters was a conscious literary gimmick ; alternatively , it might suggest a simple failure to master the typewriter 's shift-key . |
| 2 | IF EVEREST were a person — and Tibetans call it the Goddess Mother of the World — it might feel a bit put upon . |
| 3 | Indeed it might have-in a different situation where some or all of the rest of the causal circumstance for e was missing . |
| 4 | The only , if anything it might shrink a little . |
| 5 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 6 | ‘ It might matter a lot to me in my job , ’ Horowitz informed him . |
| 7 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope it might give a ten year old kid a little inspiration , a little boost and when it comes out of him , I 'm happy . |
| 9 | I lit another cigarette from the stub of the first ( unheard-of for me ) — not because I wanted it but because I felt it might give an illusion of poise to walk into the Presence with a cigarette dangling carelessly from my lips . |
| 10 | To the unpractised eye it might appear a hotch-potch thrown together at random . |
| 11 | I therefore offered the book in the hope that it might embody a healing and unitize perspective on this most exciting and disturbing movement of our times . |
| 12 | Tod : ‘ It might start a panic . ’ |
| 13 | Her solicitor had said it might fit a safety-deposit box at the Venetian bank . |
| 14 | It might carry a myriad of different messages . |
| 15 | So it might pay a mother to wait for a few days and see what happened to the baby . |
| 16 | If the density of animals in an area increases to the point of overcrowding , there will be insufficient food to go round , and it might pay an animal to move away . |
| 17 | It is a diver 's paradise , and while it might cost a lot of pennies to get there , good value for money can be waiting — if you know what to watch out for . |
| 18 | It might make a thief think twice . |
| 19 | Then prominently display a ‘ coded cycle ’ sticker — it might make a thief think again . |
| 20 | It might make a few people think , which is good . |
| 21 | Claims to leadership of national antislavery opinion also involved hopes of influencing British government policy where it might make a difference — for example , in negotiations over the continuing problem of slave trade suppression and on particular issues such as American fugitive slaves in British territories or terms for British recognition of the independence of Texas . |
| 22 | Erm it might make a lot of difference to your sort of er |
| 23 | When we were shown into the chargé 's office , I studiously avoided shaking hands or having any eye contact , determined to alert him to the fact that I understood and respected their religious customs , in the hope that it might make a difference . |
| 24 | In the meantime , despite my reservations , I found myself reflecting on headvoice 's idea : I had to admit , it might make a story . |
| 25 | ‘ Now if it were Lady ’ she named a titled person at that time popular on television — ‘ it might make a difference . |
| 26 | It might make a cover for Private Eye . |
| 27 | Two-year-old Sam Brit-ton-Gant 's enthusiasm for his child 's plastic toilet seat was so great that , having used it in the traditional way , he decided it might make an attractive necklace . |
| 28 | Within western society it might represent a socio-economic group , people in a particular employment or a young people 's counter-culture and so on . |
| 29 | Alternatively , it might represent a pessimistic feeling about the ability to carry the existing borrowing . |
| 30 | No Richard because the whole thing can fall through when we have our survey done it might show a defect or something , we might pull out , when they have their survey done it might show a defect so they might pull out , you do n't do anything Richard until the contracts have been exchanged , then you can start saying right I think that 's , that 's , every thing 's definite |