Example sentences of "might [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Open all hours , blending left literature , the Beats , the new absurdists , it attracted a clientele whose Scottish consciousness might repel them from London , the ‘ imperial capital ’ , but attract them towards Paris , and New York , free of the effeteness of English culture . |
| 2 | But when it is discovered that a substance harms women 's reproductive health , women of childbearing age are usually kept from jobs that might expose them to it . |
| 3 | Judicial independence means that judges are not dependent on governments in ways which might influence them in coming to decisions in individual cases , though their promotion , like their appointment , is effectively in the hands of the Lord Chancellor with , nowadays , a measure of Prime Ministerial intervention . |
| 4 | Having read your article ( WW/May 91/p.484 ) on the Appalachian dulcimer , I would draw your readers ' attention to the following points , which might aid them in producing an effective musical instrument . |
| 5 | Might want them for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | He might buy them in one country and ship them to a warehouse in Rotterdam where they stay until he finds a buyer for them . |
| 7 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 8 | " But I thought I might catch them in the act . |
| 9 | At first , the imperial authorities saw no danger in a Ukrainian cultural awakening and even thought it might assist them in their conflicts with the Poles . |
| 10 | They might describe them as the unsettled ‘ shells ’ of the dead . |
| 11 | But if light is composed of particles , one might expect them to be affected by gravity in the same way that cannonballs , rockets , and planets are . |
| 12 | The Home Office guidelines on the work of a Special Branch are published in the Select Committee Report of 1985 , from which it will be seen how protest by individuals and groups might bring them to Special Branch attention : |
| 13 | Fleetingly Dong wondered whether the excursion into the jungle with the corpse might present them with another opportunity to escape . |
| 14 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |
| 15 | Remember to check out the services provided by your own local banks — some regulations might prevent them from offering the above range . |
| 16 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 17 | It is all about those poor girls who behave as Rose did the other night , and suggests that a decent wage might prevent them from indulging in such conduct . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It might convert them to vegetarianism . ’ |
| 19 | We will stop sales to countries which might use them for internal repression or international aggression . |
| 20 | A few centres might use them for lake paddling , it was thought , but the serious river paddler would never buy them . |
| 21 | They are costly and highly dangerous in the hands of those who might use them for the destruction of life . ’ |
| 22 | If we do not face up to our fears , we might project them onto the outside world , perhaps in the form of violent crime , epidemics , disasters or a vengeful God , or ( closer to home ) in the form of a partner , family or friends who ‘ block ’ our growth , and thus protect us from facing our fears . |
| 23 | Instead , they might acknowledge them by saying , ‘ You must have felt awful … would you like to tell me what happened ? ’ |
| 24 | What differences follow , for example , from the young Elvis Presley starting out from printed song-copies but slowly transforming them in lengthy sessions in Sam Phillips 's Sun studio , as against Lennon and McCartney taking mostly orally worked-out ideas to George Martin who then might transform them through literate methods — for instance , the addition of written parts ? |
| 25 | But Ramsay might meet them on the way . |
| 26 | It also said that solicitors employed by large companies should not be allowed to appear in higher courts because the fact that they were employed might stop them from showing impartiality and detachment . |
| 27 | Where are the projects that might stop them from doing so in the first place ? |
| 28 | Data on dose for individual fathers are not presented because this information might enable them to be identified . |
| 29 | Since this issue of the NI is devoted to language we thought we might join them for once , but give our own particular slant and maybe set you off in a different direction . |
| 30 | I might hear them at Witney . |