Example sentences of "might [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thought I might make the next course ‘ Patterns of Light and Shade ’ . ’ |
| 2 | If he fails to gain an outright majority the Marxist former mayor of Lima , Alfonso Barrantes , might win the second round . |
| 3 | If most of the England team were to relocate their business in Newport Gwent , we might win the next Test at Old Trafford , Lancs . |
| 4 | We might achieve the second task by altering our account of defeasibility so that instead of talking about some one other truth ( which caused the problem of piecemeal addition ) we talk about all truths whatever . |
| 5 | He could appreciate that a collection might become the last refuge and hope for survival of an endangered species , but the knowledge did little to modify his response ; apart from the dogs ' home where he 'd once been bought a sick puppy , it was one of the saddest places he knew . |
| 6 | I thought it would be up to seven weeks after my back operation before I was playing again , and I feared I might miss the first month of the season . ’ |
| 7 | You might try the first part . |
| 8 | If there was any ambiguity , that is to say implications which might escape the first or indeed many subsequent readings , they were not the ones which would have made themselves more readily apparent if some form of graphic representation had preserved the tone of voice , the facial expressions or the hand movements of their author . |
| 9 | For example , a comparison instruction might execute the next instruction if the first operand is high , skip one instruction if the operands are equal , or skip two instructions if the second operand is high . |
| 10 | In this second category we might place the first seventeen sonnets , with their persuasion to marriage , a sequence that may in fact draw some of its arguments and images from a model epistle , Erasmus 's Encomium Matrimonii , Englished by Sir Thomas Wilson as An Epistle to perswade a yong Gentleman to mariage , devised by Erasmus , in the behalfe of his freend . |
| 11 | An ensign , however , might find the next step a little harder , while command of a company was rarely to be had without the ability to purchase the commission of a holder of a captaincy or very strong political interest to secure the place in an expanding army in a new battalion . |
| 12 | One might ask the first question : Is it art or is it craft ? it is a tour de force combining both . |
| 13 | They might say the second of the three sentences as : ‘ Bary , you 're barvellous . |