Example sentences of "might [vb infin] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might labour for years and then discover that one 's thoughts simply concealed some devilish machine . ’ |
| 2 | Asked whether Britain might opt for membership of this looser body if it rejected progress towards full European union , Mr Andriessen said : ‘ It is always open to countries to go back to Efta if they wish . ’ |
| 3 | On the basis of its fauna , the area in question might qualify for protection as a nature reserve , if not for designation as a site of special scientific interest . |
| 4 | I shall be administrating the Concentration of Resources Programme and if you have any project which might qualify for grant aid in the year 1985–86 please contact me either directly or through your Regional Representative . |
| 5 | It need not stop here , however , because other sites in Britain might qualify for inclusion . |
| 6 | The government is reviewing the cases of about 60 people sentenced for political or security offences to see if they might qualify for pardon . |
| 7 | She really wanted him to teach the swimming , believing that they might achieve for Nails , even if only because they were frightened not to ; that was the reason she had made herself be nice to him , inviting him to come up when Miss Bedwelty came . |
| 8 | It forced many Japanese to recognize the need for reform and a strong national government which might achieve for Japan a better deal in external relations . |
| 9 | Certainly the reading content of the recommended book for Class 2 in Sierra Leone which I saw being used with very young children in Freetown schools is far above the average reading level one might expect for six-year-olds in London who speak English , not Creole , at home . |
| 10 | Any personal animosity she might feel for Niall Grant must be set aside . |
| 11 | No attempt will be made to separate out what accounting methods might do for pre-investment as distinct from post-investment . |
| 12 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 13 | I was afraid it might rain for Christmas . ’ |
| 14 | The backswing which goes beyond the horizontal might work for John Daly , but most golfers are unable to transfer their body weight correctly from such an extreme position . |
| 15 | An accessible model of the self is clearly one of the places that one might look for analogues of consciousness in a machine system . |
| 16 | The ability to see subjects hierarchically , i.e. to perceive that specific subjects are often included in more general ones ( ROBINS might be included under BIRDS ) , as well as vice versa , and that as well as trying more general subject areas on shelves one might look for books with more comprehensive titles or filmstrips on more general themes . |
| 17 | You might look for clusters , using the properties |
| 18 | No solution was found : within a few years the European powers were at war again , essentially over the question whether Spain and her colonies were going to pass into the hands of a relation of the King of France or a relation of the Holy Roman Emperor ; in the end they passed into the French line of descent , and in the eighteenth century policy towards France had always to be conducted in the light of the possibility that the French and Spanish government might ally for war . |
| 19 | This might occur for example where an elderly person seems to those around to be failing to cope in daily life , and the situation has to be explored . |
| 20 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
| 21 | It suggested that submission obtained by threats other than of violence might suffice for rape and held that it should be left to the jury , with adequate direction from the judge , to make up its mind whether or not on the facts of each case the woman had truly consented . |
| 22 | The only other low-cost option is to take a colour photograph of the screen and whilst this might suffice for business charts it certainly wo n't be accurate enough for a designer or architect . |
| 23 | You might vote for Conservative , but that 's the Labour Party ? |
| 24 | I suppose if I lived in Middlesbrough I might vote for Stuart Bell , the Labour barrister who fought such a courageous battle on behalf of the families in the awful Cleveland affair . |
| 25 | The sweeping contours of the hill at that point have always reminded me of a huge wave about to break , and it 's an uncomfortable thought trying to imagine where you might stop for lunch , and what would happen if you dropped your orange . |
| 26 | This overcame the concern that some states might compete for industry by setting lax requirements , so becoming ‘ polluter havens ’ , or that large industry in some states might lobby for the establishment of permissive standards . |
| 27 | Perhaps we should not look for too deep a political explanation : ostracism was for the man whose leadership had been rejected — which might happen for reasons of style rather than content — and whose disapproving presence was an obstruction and a reproach . |
| 28 | For example , an investor might sell for 100p per share one week and if he or she has been proven correct in their expectations may buy the share for say 80p each the following week , thus netting a profit per share of 20p before transactions costs . |
| 29 | A 70cl bottle of blended Scotch Whisky might sell for £10.80 in Britain . |
| 30 | But while his writing on mass culture might be used to place on the historical agenda of television theory the idea of difference and of the avant garde , the particular forms which that idea might take for television at the end of the twentieth century can not be predicted from his work . |