Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge to one 's premisses and assumptions will be made and has to be faced , though one might prefer to reply in terms of ‘ principles ’ rather than of ‘ theory ’ . |
| 2 | The contribution might relate to return on assets , employee productivity or product developments . |
| 3 | Perhaps I would n't like to stay there very long , because , as I said , I might want to go to school again . |
| 4 | To build up his pot , because he might have a bad month , or he might want to go on holiday . |
| 5 | Some of us might want to bid on it ! |
| 6 | He 'd declined the butler 's offer to take his coat : he might want to leave in a hurry . |
| 7 | It may well be a mistake for a director to restrict earnings in favour of dividends , however , if he thinks he might want to retire within 13 years . |
| 8 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 9 | You do n't have to have curtains ; blinds are a good alternative or if the room has a marvellous view you might want to do without any form of window dressing . |
| 10 | And also I 'd like an indication as we go through of the relative weights that you might want to give to individual criterion . |
| 11 | The uneasy feeling that , despite his claim to make things out of ideas , Berkeley has ‘ banished all that is real and substantial out of the world ’ , can be articulated by suggesting that , whatever philosophers might want to say about ‘ real things ’ , common sense will want to speak about them in ways which , at least at first sight , are not licensed by their being constructed out of ideas . |
| 12 | And , whatever else you might want to say about this number , you would have to admit it was simple . |
| 13 | . O K anything else that we might want to say around those things , that go off . |
| 14 | Such a store address is a new type of information that we might want to deposit as the contents of a word . |
| 15 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
| 16 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 17 | ‘ The police might want to talk to you — ’ |
| 18 | It might be that they can discuss and compare life during the Great War , or in the 1920s and 1930s ; or they might want to talk about how expectations , duties , responsibilities have changed since their childhood days . |
| 19 | " Power " , for example , is an ordinal attribute in which we might want to talk about individuals having " more " or " less " power than others and to reflect this in using the power of numbers to reflect " more " or " less " of some attribute in the same way that a higher number score on a test signifies a greater ability to do the test than a lower number . |
| 20 | Now that 's stated in the blue paper , you might want to talk about |
| 21 | I think there 's no issue in his patch that he might want to talk about . |
| 22 | That Yuri Andropov was head of the KGB , or even the USSR 's Ambassador in Hungary in 1956 , may tell us little of how he might want to behave as the Tsar , and First Secretary of the Communist Party . |
| 23 | If there 's a chance you might want to move to Windows later on , bear in mind that Windows apps , like some games , are real gluttons when it comes to hard disk space . |
| 24 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
| 25 | But er often you might want to trigger off a particular pattern coming on the trace . |
| 26 | " I thought you might want to break off the match after I 'd made an exhibition of myself . " |
| 27 | You might want to add to a set of chairs that you already possess , or make up a matching chair to one at home . |
| 28 | The other connection that you might want to make to the rising main is one for an instantaneous gas water heater or electric shower , which need mains pressure , or one of the devices which alter the quality of the water — a softener , conditioner or filter , say . |
| 29 | Of course , for early EDI users , getting two computers , one 's own and one belonging to a trading partner , to talk to one another , was quite enough of a challenge , without worrying about other people you and your partners might want to communicate with some time in the future . |
| 30 | You might want to work in it . |