Example sentences of "this might [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This might give a little pause to those who dogmatically believe that poverty is a direct consequence of ‘ overpopulation ’ . |
| 2 | This might involve a direct effect on T-cell precursors , perhaps reflecting a continuation of the dependence of stem cells in the bone marrow on contact with fibroblasts or their matrix products . |
| 3 | This might involve a prolonged search and thus discourage the specialisation that is so important in increasing output : in a barter economy , an individual would try to be as self-sufficient as possible because of the problems of trading . |
| 4 | Since aggressive animals often have higher testosterone levels than normal this might aid a male in persisting in attacks on harem males and thereby in gaining a harem . |
| 5 | For some time , I wondered whether this might explain an inability to find the Oyster Band wholly digestible . |
| 6 | Publication of the report is then held over until after the review , and this might mean a further six months . |
| 7 | Those who understood this might leave a swatch of fabric lying around so that Laura could pick it up and believe she had discovered it herself , even if they had been trying to persuade her to use it for months . |
| 8 | This might make a good science fiction story — The White Cloud , it could be called — but for our purposes a computer model like the monkey/Shakespeare model is easier to grasp . |
| 9 | This might create a balance in the day-to-day encounters of young people and carers between , on the one hand , issues concerned with the young person 's feelings and behaviour towards others and , on the other hand , the appreciation and learning of skills associated with a range of activities and interests . |
| 10 | The government has resisted introducing a ‘ disregard ’ of maintenance for those on income support partly because of fears that this might create a disincentive to work . |
| 11 | Even amongst those who supported restricting the giving of accountants reports to registered auditors , concern was expressed that this might create a monopoly for larger accountancy firms who would then be in a position to charge higher fees . |
| 12 | This might cause a realignment of the parties . |
| 13 | On I May he left for a Mediterranean cruise in the vain hope that this might cause an improvement . |
| 14 | It is suggested in Bramwell on Taxation of Companies and Company Reconstructions that this might constitute a value-shifting arrangement entitling the Revenue to adjust the consideration on a disposal of Target 's shares , though the Revenue have indicated that payments for group relief would not usually constitute value shifting — see the Institute of Chartered Accountants ' Technical Release TR 291 . |
| 15 | In considering how far this might constitute an explanation of the observed facts , though , the obvious question is whether folklinguistic beliefs relate directly to behaviour . |
| 16 | His parents hoped that this might prove a stepping-stone to a painter 's career , but Rosenberg hated the work , only deriving consolation from his reading of such poets as Byron , Keats , Shelley , and , most importantly , William Blake [ qq.v. ] ; from his own writing ; and from evening painting classes at the art school of Birkbeck College . |
| 17 | Despite the complexities of their personal chemistry , this might produce a more just assessment of Britain 's second-longest-serving postwar prime minister than anything else that is likely to appear . ) |
| 18 | Fearing that this might produce an aggregate increase in local government spending the government responded by introducing a second expenditure-control mechanism known as targets . |
| 19 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 20 | This might include a desire to see wild flowers and animals in a natural setting , possibly to see sheep and cattle grazing in fields , to have access to woodlands , country walks , to be able to climb hills and even mountains and to go down pot-holes . |
| 21 | This might include a set of rules for relating the surface form of an utterance to its underlying meaning , and certain grammatical categories such as sentence subject and object of the verb . |
| 22 | This might seem a somewhat unusual thing to do , but if Mr Cleese can resurrect his dead mother as frequently as he does his dead parrot then she will have a busy afterlife . |
| 23 | If you have a frequency meter of any sort , check at pin 10 of IC1 to see that the frequency is between 20kHz to 25kHz ; this might seem a big variation but the design works over this range . |
| 24 | Although this might seem a ‘ safe ’ option compared to buying Goblins , this is n't really the case . |
| 25 | This might seem a rather feeble threat . |
| 26 | This might seem a particularly appropriate task for geographers although similar work has been the province of biologists , archaeologists and geologists . |
| 27 | To many this might seem a dry and rather dusty concern ; but those who have watched the progress of AD can hardly fail to ask if the person they once knew is still somehow trapped within the body and mind of the sufferer . |
| 28 | This might seem a bit rich coming from a man who has spent most of his career luxuriating in material wealth as one of the US 's most enduring entertainers . |
| 29 | While this might seem a basic requirement , it has resulted in a wide range of design criteria , each designed to fully respond to the environmental conditions . |
| 30 | It seemed impossible that this might become a battlefield , and perhaps it would not , for Sharpe was already beginning to doubt what he had seen that same morning . |