Example sentences of "they might [vb infin] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose they might represent a considerable academic scoop . |
| 2 | For some this related to their abilities with their present enterprises whilst for others it related to the future when they might undertake a new enterprise . |
| 3 | Well you might find , cos they might want a drink |
| 4 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 5 | Arnold Whitchurch , the chairman of the Board of Governors there , thought that ‘ if the hospitals worked with the County Council they might do a tremendous lot for the co-ordination of the general health system . |
| 6 | So saying , she bustled Theda back behind the curtain , bidding her change quickly that they might visit a milliner , and prudently went away to confer with Antoinette . |
| 7 | If she could be too — then they might stand a chance against those racy Greycoat boys ! |
| 8 | The authorities in Tripoli shift ed senior officers around from one post to another at relatively frequent intervals ; the officers themselves said that was not because the government was particularly concerned to create an impartial force ( such as a Gendarmerie or Guardia Civil ) , but because their loyalty was suspect : if they worked in their home areas , or stayed for a long spell of duty in one district , they might acquire a following of dissidents . |
| 9 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 10 | If the colour-code used blue for distance , like the atmosphere , they might give a 3-D effect too . |
| 11 | It was as if he was frightened they might lay a claim on him . |
| 12 | When they feel especially daring , they might wear a paler shade of beige . |
| 13 | I think by and large they 're probably running away and do n't want to have much to do with him and they do n't like these people , probably , who use your drop in centre because they might smell a little bit and they might be down at heel and they 're not really people who are going to contribute much to the lives of those other people who are trying to get on and make things better for themselves . |
| 14 | The author 's sounder proposition is that , when South Africa 's rulers at last ( perhaps too late ) released the one black leader they might strike a deal with , they marked the end of the period in which the words ‘ national liberation ’ had any meaning in Africa . |
| 15 | I can see that in such a case they might make a gift of paintings or other works of art for tax reasons , for example , and would n't care if they were sold or not . |
| 16 | And , anyway , she was n't so deluded that she thought they might make a life together . |
| 17 | Consequently , they might make a significant contribution to the development of computer-aided instructional materials and delivery systems for machine-readable information which will be found increasingly in the commercial as well as in the academic worlds . |
| 18 | 2 ringers do n't make a right , although they might make a mainstream centre left traditional Conservative . |
| 19 | No , I hope they might make a new |
| 20 | they might have a , they might spend a bit of time topic , but they want , they 're just looking at you know variations in |
| 21 | Fortunately for the police complaints department , skins seem to regard this as part of the normal way of life , in the same way they might get a good hiding from their old man to make them toe the line at home . |
| 22 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 23 | ‘ They might hit a pole , for instance , ’ suggested his friend . |
| 24 | One of the dangers of majoritarianism is that majorities are always apt to forget that in another context they might constitute a minority . |
| 25 | How cast his shadow over the imaginations of their daughters before their squires beget upon them that they might breed a race less ignoble than their own ? |
| 26 | He could countenance violence and killing , if only they might provide a way out of the taedium vitae which formed his spiritual landscape . |
| 27 | Ms Davidson suggested to the crematorium manager that they might use a wooden coffin with a hole in the bottom . |
| 28 | they might put a double sharp or a double flat that but would be the same note . |
| 29 | It also seems that it might be helpful if teachers were aware of those among their pupils with particularly unsupportive home lives , that is , with few sources outside school from which they might derive a sense of their own value . |
| 30 | PAKISTAN batsman Salim Malik reckons that if the England Test team learn to play properly , they might win a few games of international cricket |