Example sentences of "might [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But some creditors might prefer a bigger pay-out sooner to financing a risky and expensive test-case . |
| 2 | The country might prefer a tired to an unfamiliar team . |
| 3 | Some people covered by the conventional company scheme might prefer a personal pension . |
| 4 | Those on windowsills could be too cold at night , for example , while plants which spend the summer in darker corners might prefer a bright spot near to the window . |
| 5 | With wall hangings you can choose a bold , vivid effect that will be the focal point of the room ; or you might prefer a subdued pattern that will tone in with the surroundings . |
| 6 | For example from the relative disaster in automobile manufacturing might arise a new concept of the car that is amazingly successful . |
| 7 | One disadvantage of the tokamak is that it has a pulsed discharge ( although there have been various suggestions as to how we might design a continuous tokamak ) while the stellarator and EBT are DC ( continuous ) toroidal configurations . |
| 8 | But there were intimacies at the opposite end of the social scale — in which a barrow girl might fancy a young police constable , or a socially mobile ‘ buck ’ might seek advice from the local fount of authority and knowledge . |
| 9 | Once there , he could claim she was dead ; in the West , she might build a new life . |
| 10 | An individual might build a local paper from nothing and retain the ownership intact . |
| 11 | Agriculture campaigner Robin Maynard said : ‘ £31 million over three years might build a few ornamental ponds in the countryside but it is hardly going to generate a major shift in agricultural policy from over-intensive agriculture to sustainable farming practice . ’ |
| 12 | One argument given earlier was that the processor might treat a proper name as signalling the status of main character , and so bring about a relatively high proportion of singular continuations made to this character . |
| 13 | Only when the Government could prove that disclosure would cause " grave and irreparable injury to the public interest " — details , for example , of troop deployment in wartime or information which might trigger a nuclear war — was a court entitled to stop the presses . |
| 14 | On the other hand , concurrent developments in semantics have isolated intractable phenomena of a parallel kind : presuppositions , speech acts and other context-dependent implications , together with troublesome phenomena like honorifics and discourse particles that had long been given short shrift in the work of generative grammarians Further , thought about the nature of the lexicon , and how one might construct a predictive concept of " possible lexical item " , has revealed the importance of pragmatic constraints ( see Horn , 1972 ; McCawley , 1978 ; Gazdar , 1979a : 68ff ) . |
| 15 | On the other hand , a high-class interior designer would be far more likely to regard quality as a goal that could not be compromised , and might regard a single dissatisfied customer as a threat to future business . |
| 16 | I 'll want you to think about that tonight , I 'm gon na hand out a few sheets that might might explain a little bit of synergy erm I believe synergy this is my this is more of a sort of worldly view . |
| 17 | Here is an example of how the changes might affect a small business , with a 15% phased increase each year . |
| 18 | Still , ‘ Reading-wise it 's got to be Bookwise ’ might make a useful slogan . |
| 19 | I remember Chapman was amazed when I told him we might make a million profit in 1982 . |
| 20 | No , I hope they might make a new |
| 21 | Rufus might make a good interrogator . |
| 22 | This might make a good science fiction story — The White Cloud , it could be called — but for our purposes a computer model like the monkey/Shakespeare model is easier to grasp . |
| 23 | ‘ You can argue that a change in rates might make a decisive turnround in the next six months or so … but recent behaviour of the foreign exchanges suggests that government control is not possible . |
| 24 | A friend treated her to a pukkah drinks-dispensing butler who asked if he might make a personal remark before teetering off into the small hours . |
| 25 | In Latin America , Africa , and Asia , peasants might make a similar journey to market with a few chickens or other stock and produce if the fare were low enough to leave some profit . |
| 26 | It seemed at first that Hepworth , too , might make a telling contribution when he began with three maidens , in the course of which he comprehensively bowled Pearson . |
| 27 | A stressful situation , such as having to catch a train or make a speech , might make a normal person 's stomach churn a little , but in the IBS sufferer it can provoke a violent attack of diarrhoea . |
| 28 | Someone sensitive and caring might make a better leader or salesperson than someone more competitive . |
| 29 | 2 ringers do n't make a right , although they might make a mainstream centre left traditional Conservative . |
| 30 | As the bears go after salmon , not sticks , one might make a powerful ally in the Fishermen 's War . |