Example sentences of "might [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That methodology , some members argued , might enhance the Scottish budget given that Scotland was currently paying for a share of some centralised services which it neither used nor needed . |
| 2 | The Government might fool the British public by denying the atrocity stories , but the Army in Ireland knew the truth , the newspapers knew , the people knew . |
| 3 | If a takeover does become the subject of civil litigation or criminal proceedings , the Panel will normally suspend publication of any of its own findings which might influence the legal proceedings . |
| 4 | Some might regard the frequent leaks of sensitive government documents as a consequence of this tension . |
| 5 | The Chancellor also took the opportunity to nuance his support for German reunification in ways which will reassure those fearful that precipitate moves to unification might unsettle the Soviet Union and threaten the improvement in East-West relations . |
| 6 | Such Persian names survive in local nomenclature till Roman times : the priests of Artemis at Ephesus went on being called Megabyxoi for centuries after 330 ; or we might compare the place-name Maibozani , recently attested ( JRS , 1975 , p. 65 , line 10 , with p. 73 : a Roman inscription from Ephesus of the first century AD ) . |
| 7 | If the rays of light that form the event horizon , the boundary of the black hole , can never approach each other , the area of the event horizon might stay the same or increase with time but it could never decrease — because that would mean that at least some of the rays of light in the boundary would have to be approaching each other . |
| 8 | Then she was giving him her mouth again so that he might swallow the choked cries of pleasure rising from her throat as the frenzy claimed her once more , and a little later she was thrashing against him , pleading hoarsely for his possession , until Luke held her down and sank into her with a harsh groan . |
| 9 | Nor , in the long hours of her sleeping , when he and Diniz shared the same room , did he say more than he thought might reassure the young Portuguese . |
| 10 | Breach of professional standards and etiquette This ground should be extended ( either specifically or generally ) to cover all instances of professional misconduct which might damage the good name of the firm . |
| 11 | To examine the factors which might explain the higher mortality from sudden infant death syndrome in Maori infants ( 7.4/1000 live births in 1986 compared with 3.6 in non-Maori children ) . |
| 12 | We therefore used data from a large case-control study to look at differences between Maori and non-Maori children and examine factors that might explain the higher mortality from sudden death infant syndrome among Maori children . |
| 13 | The first record is in August , when Dista 's representatives suggested the research might explain the bleeding seen in some patients ' stomachs and intestines . |
| 14 | This study will continue the analysis of data on aspects of Unit infants ' experience that might explain the developmental strengths and weaknesses demonstrated in the main study . |
| 15 | But while all this might explain the quantitative failures of left criticism it does not in itself , explain its qualitative failures . |
| 16 | Using this method conflicting findings have been reported in studies of diabetic subjects ( Dollery et al , 1979 ; Davis et al , 1981 ) , and it is now generally accepted that there may be considerable non-specific interference in assaying this metabolite in plasma which might explain the different findings ( Greaves & Preston , 1982 ; Dollery et al , 1983 ) . |
| 17 | What physical processes might explain the dividing line ? |
| 18 | It was implied that this might explain the enormous rise in my BMA/BUPA premium . |
| 19 | They also suggest that the possible existence of the relationship might explain the inconsistent results obtained from studies of the effects of dividends using the capital asset pricing model . |
| 20 | This might explain the extreme U/Pb and Sm/Nd fractionations found in Trinidade and Cameroon line nephelinites . |
| 21 | These authors found that oral administration of aspirin was associated with inhibition of platelet prostaglandin synthesis and suggested that this finding might explain the known effects of aspirin in inhibiting the platelet-release reaction and in prolonging the bleeding time ( Quick , 1966 ) . |
| 22 | A brief account of Bourdieu 's notion of ‘ habitus ’ provides an example of how we might assimilate the apparent paradox of an external physical world which is nevertheless in a more immediate relationship with the unconscious than the world of articulate symbolism . |
| 23 | One fear about saying ‘ No ’ is that you might hurt the other person . |
| 24 | Some fixed lens cameras have a maximum and minimum focus , and might restrict the maximum depth you can dive to . |
| 25 | It is possible , however , that synthetic chemicals might affect the immune response in some way . |
| 26 | One way is that semantic and/or pragmatic factors might affect the syntactic analysis of a clause or sentence ; that is , these different kinds of processing are interactive . |
| 27 | Investors watch exchange rates closely , because they calculate their profits in their home currency , and because they must assess how changes might affect the future international competitiveness of local output . |
| 28 | The first step is to determine which system might affect the subsequent course of events ; these could be the station 's electrical system , the ECCS , the radioactivity scrubbing system , and the containment system . |
| 29 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 30 | WITH A NAME like Hamid Dastmalchi you might think the new world poker champion is a Middle Easterner — maybe an Iranian like Mansour Matloubi , the Cardiff-based player who won the title two years ago . |