Example sentences of "might have [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were fears that the Liverpool boss might have to quit the game when he went into hospital last April for triple heart by-pass surgery . |
| 2 | You might have to leave the room again . |
| 3 | She might have to wait a wee while but I think she 'll get on , yes . |
| 4 | So he might get his wall built but he might have to wait a year before he starts it . |
| 5 | Their relatively smaller personal estates reflect perhaps more than anything else a generally modest standard of living in the shires , for while the greater apparent wealth of some yeomen consisted mainly of farming stock , a big landowner , burdened with a large family and heavily encumbered estates , might find himself compelled to endure a spartan existence ; unlike a yeomen , moreover , he might have to support a train of unproductive servants . |
| 6 | He is also trying to finish a commerce degree at university , but the remarkable series of events which has seen South Africa catapulted into the cricketing limelight means that studies might have to take a back seat for at least 1992 . |
| 7 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 8 | Indeed Theodore Roosevelt was suggesting before 1914 that , if the British Empire faltered and was unable to preserve a global balance of power which was compatible with American interests , the United States might have to take an equal or even the leading role in world affairs . |
| 9 | However if evil were merely a hateful and external power without echo in the hearts of the good , then someone might have to take the Ring to the Cracks of Doom , but it need not be Frodo : Gandalf could be trusted with it , while whoever went would have only to distrust his enemies , not his friends and not himself . |
| 10 | Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal . |
| 11 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 12 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 13 | You never know , you might have to do a top of an |
| 14 | Kawasaki Steel is now saying that it might have to do the same . |
| 15 | We laugh about it now , but it is sobering to think that thousands of men , either too old or too young for the Services , should have gone quite voluntarily , many nights a week , to drill and to manoeuvre , seriously believing that they might have to encounter an invading army . |
| 16 | If the draught is sluggish , it may be improved by fitting vents in wooden floors near to the fireplace ; or you might have to install a vent in an outside wall . |
| 17 | At this point , Alf Jacobson entered the room to inform us that when he rang the Canadian Pacific Railway to check on the 9.15pm train by which Mr Murray and party were to travel to Regina , he was informed that the train was held up at Swift Current because of the blizzard , and that it would seem the CBC party might have to spend the night in Moose Jaw . |
| 18 | ‘ We thought we might have to spend the night down there and that 's when we started getting a bit worried , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It also means that all other quarter-finalists — Canada , Ireland , Scotland , Western Samoa and France — might have to join the rest of the world in the qualifying rounds , expected to start later this year . |
| 20 | Mrs Linley , who has waited more than a year to swap her previous house in Trafford Close for a larger property , feared she might have to replace the lock herself . |
| 21 | Can you think of any more situations that you might have to use an excuse ? |
| 22 | Ben now said , ‘ You walk along ; you might have to open the gates … |
| 23 | Sources predicted that there would be no sign of the frostiness which greeted Mr Spring 's suggestion , in a Guardian interview in July , that both Governments might have to bypass the parties and aim for joint rule . |
| 24 | We might have to look a long way back . ’ |
| 25 | Otherwise you might have to apply the smelling salts . |
| 26 | The tiny motherboard is upgradeable but the processor is underneath the disk drive cage , so you might have to remove the motherboard completely to upgrade it . |
| 27 | To get a job with some other pernickety employers you might have to run a marathon , walk a dog , sprout some hair or shed some weight . |
| 28 | Even then , there was the embarrassing prospect that the Romanian players might have to walk the dark streets between having a bath at 3.30pm and the official dinner at 7.30pm . |
| 29 | Looks as if he might have to face a court-martial . ’ |
| 30 | Once hired , he might have to work a 15-hour stretch , perhaps into the night . |