Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others might prefer to refer patients to special agencies for such help , including social workers , counsellors attached to practices , marriage guidance counsellors , and so on . |
| 2 | and you are never revealed on your battle field would be to erm phone up Trailfinders or S T A , I think I might 've asked S T A , and find out which would be the best card , which would be the best card to have . |
| 3 | Another dinosaur that might 've had wings . |
| 4 | CATHERINE That you might want to see Janet . |
| 5 | The HRD practitioner might want to cite examples from his or her own experience of the fact that ‘ quick-fix ’ changes tend to be just that — first-aid treatments that do not have a base for perpetuation . |
| 6 | So long as I was looking for someone who might want to murder Michael Banks , I was getting nowhere . |
| 7 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 8 | Or you might want to put photographs into your brochures but have never considered it possible before because they are only photocopied . |
| 9 | It is difficult to say where we might want to purchase land . |
| 10 | Well , we were n't having that , so we stood around , we said ‘ Well , we thought we 'd just wait around a little bit , you know , just in case they might want to say goodbye to us . ’ |
| 11 | Right so there 's a thought that somehow democracy ought to be self-justifying erm the well I mean quite a long way actually two types of justification of democracy , instrumental and erm Mill is defending democracy surely instrumentally and we might want to say democracy has its justification of freedom and equality . |
| 12 | Now if th this side , the list on this side erm represents the sort of essential characteristics of a Marxist political party , and if that 's a reasonable er summary , and people might want to take issue with it argue that these are n't the essential characteristics , that there are other essential characteristics or one other important er characteristic which I 've ignored , but if these are , down this side , the essential characteristics of a Marxist party then Mao 's Communist Party in the late nineteen thirties can not , it seems to me , by any stretch of the imagination qualify . |
| 13 | The mover of the motion might want to take part in the debate on motion three seven one , pensions . |
| 14 | About 10 per cent of solicitors — around 6,000 — might want to conduct cases in the higher courts , Mr David Ward , president of the Law Society , has estimated . |
| 15 | Um generally speaking you know if you you might want to use sort of fairly y'know sort of fairly brief extracts y'know sort of five or ten minutes or something like that maybe and get people to y'know respond to it and so on . |
| 16 | Oh yes , they might want to worship God but let's take one step at a time . |
| 17 | Stories have been rejected outright for the simple reason that they were ‘ too middle-class ’ , though one editor was constructive enough to suggest the writer might want to replace ballet and riding classes with swimming and gymnastics . |
| 18 | These too might want to alter priorities and wish to change the aims of the fund raising campaign . |
| 19 | We Christians might want to interpret things differently , yet in his masterpiece , ‘ The Wreck of the Deutschland ’ , the Jesuit nineteenth-century poet , Gerard Manley Hopkins , found himself writing these lines : |
| 20 | ‘ It 's just that I — I thought you might want to make alterations . ’ |
| 21 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean , you might want to make love to her ? |
| 23 | In the second and third examples , it also reflects the practical difficulties of the potentially very large number of parties affected who might want to make representations . |
| 24 | For hanging ties and belts , you can buy specialist racks or rails to attach to the wall or the back of the wardrobe doors , shoe racks can be placed in the bottom of the wardrobe and , if the exteriors of the doors are not mirrored , you might want to fit mirrors to the inside . |
| 25 | In response to my attempts to historicize perversion it has been said : ‘ OK , we see how you might want to rescue homosexuality from the pejorative category of a perversion , but surely not incest or bestiality ? ’ |
| 26 | However much I might want to keep tabs on him , bumping into him several times a day in the corridor hardly seemed the best route to anonymity . |
| 27 | However much a politician might desire to avoid involvement in the collectorship contests , it was virtually impossible to escape being drawn in if the friends were involved . |
| 28 | Other methods of stimulating volume might include controlling trading hours ( by concentrating liquidity in a particular time frame , as on the metal and cocoa rings ) or by lengthening the hours , to attract business from other time zones . |
| 29 | What steps are reasonable in any particular case will obviously depend on the circumstances in which the policeman ( or the citizen ) finds himself , but these might include requiring trespassers to leave , requiring a speaker to move from his chosen spot , or to desist from speaking altogether , calling for quiet when noise seems likely to provoke a breach of the peace ; in short , anything that is necessary to prevent the breach from occurring . |
| 30 | Huw , a brown-eyed version of Feargal himself , accompanied by a pretty little blonde girl , looked as though he might enjoy causing chaos just for the hell of it . |