Example sentences of "might contain a " in BNC.

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1 The incumbent of St Mark 's , the Rev. Claude Lionel Chavasse , suggested that the window might contain a view of St Mark 's itself in the background .
2 The adoption contract might contain a proviso that if a natural son was born he would take precedence as the legal heir .
3 ‘ I promised to ask around a bit , and it occurred to me that the book might contain a clue . ’
4 The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number .
5 Similarly , the buyer 's terms of purchase might contain a provision to deal with late delivery : ( a ) If the Seller fails to deliver the goods in accordance with the terms of this contract , the Buyer is entitled to terminate the contract with immediate effect .
6 The first was based on the concept that a contract might contain a fundamental term — a core obligation — so that a failure to perform the fundamental term would amount to a total failure to perform the contract .
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