Example sentences of "it might [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or it might suggest that , despite a total lack of plausibility in their claims for knowledge , religious movements have survived either through institutional inertia , or insofar as they assist in conferring a sense of identity on national or local communities . |
| 2 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 3 | It might give one power . |
| 4 | It might appear strange to classify a retailer as a manufacturer but this will only happen where he is under a duty to inspect the goods and fails to do so . |
| 5 | At first it might appear simple to unravel a particular doubt by relating it to one of the seven broad categories , but first appearances are deceptive . |
| 6 | It might appear that , in order properly to understand the moral causes of political phenomena , we need in the end to have understood the natural phenomena which cause moral phenomena . |
| 7 | It might appear that chaining or tagging would always be preferable to the simpler system of storing records in the next available position . |
| 8 | The fact that a wealth tax bore heavily on someone who turned out to lose all his capital would not on an ex ante basis be regarded as indicating a regressive impact , but in terms of measured income ( allowing for the loss ) it might appear that way . |
| 9 | At first blush it might appear self-contradictory to hold that A did not act in concert with B but that B acted in concert with A , but there was no real inconsistency . |
| 10 | At best , it might offer local television worthy of the name . |
| 11 | It might go wrong |
| 12 | If roads were contained within a perspex tunnel and regularly patrolled by wildlife wardens , armed with splints and bandages and trained in every kind of veterinary first aid , I suppose it might go some way towards reducing this tragic toll . |
| 13 | But I suppose it might explain one of the greatest mysteries of her 40-year reign — where she gets those shoes and handbags . |
| 14 | Furthermore , if secondary carnitine deficiency exists in patients with coeliac disease , it might explain some of the symptoms of this condition . |
| 15 | It might cover any sounds SHe might make . |
| 16 | It might cover secret processes and trade secrets . |
| 17 | You said it might make two sheets . |
| 18 | Broadcasters themselves were also aware that it was easy to overdo the attention given to politicians and political news ; it might make some politicians happy , but not the audience . |
| 19 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 20 | erm I sometimes feel erm that erm in fact = it would be a good idea when I see people doing things which I regard as immediately dangerous , but I think it might make considerable difficulties for the relationship between the police and the motoring public which erm are already at times very strained , and I 'm not sure , for some of the reasons erm that Norbert has suggested , that it 's erm necessarily a very erm happy system . |
| 21 | ‘ It might make interesting reading for the over 30 sporting population , ’ he says . |
| 22 | It might make artistic sense for the gallery to borrow some key picture to enhance the look of an exhibition , but a picture which is not for sale is an expensive use of wall space . |
| 23 | Perhaps it might make more sense to restrict people to a fixed number of pets . |
| 24 | This might involve them in consulting books and other sources , or it might involve practical investigations . |
| 25 | David , from Torrington , Devon , joined three pals for the evening , despite being told it might involve heavy drinking . |
| 26 | The truth is that they had a narcissistic preoccupation with their own past ; any information they could glean about ‘ savage society ’ was eagerly seized upon in the hope that it might shed further light on their own origins . |
| 27 | One bird that was shot in Patagonia was almost consigned to the digestive tracts of the Beagle crew before Darwin realised it might hold some scientific significance , and should be preserved for identification back in London . |
| 28 | I mean , it might represent that , but it might not . |
| 29 | Only a couple of months ago some inside the Federal Reserve thought it might loosen monetary policy this summer one last time . |
| 30 | ‘ It might do some , but it 's a week here with nowhere to go afterwards that 's the real problem . ’ |