Example sentences of "might [vb infin] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We should , however , recognise the problems that might arise as a result and make sure that we do not misinterpret any problem . |
| 2 | The letters said that the payments were made without prejudice to any right to recover them which might arise as a result of legal proceedings . |
| 3 | Therefore , we must expect some major changes in that region in the coming years and be prepared for anything that might arise as a result . |
| 4 | Regional policy has thus been amended in accordance with a perceived need to deal with the growing regional disparities which might arise as a consequence of the SEM . |
| 5 | The payment was made ‘ without any prejudice to any right to recover any payments which might arise as the result of legal proceedings ’ . |
| 6 | The terrorist is normally a person who , as such , risks death either by his own weapons or in the commission of his act , and is at least as likely to court what he might regard as a martyr 's or patriot 's death as to be deterred by it . |
| 7 | Others sink in what outsiders might regard as a storm in a teacup . |
| 8 | He was also aware that his writing might act as a ‘ soporific to closet readers . ’ |
| 9 | Mark your possessions with your postcode — the police will then give you a window sticker , which might act as a deterrent . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're really very busy at the moment , but give me a ring tomorrow in my office and we 'll try and make a date ’ he said feebly , hoping his lack of enthusiasm might act as a deterrent . |
| 11 | The possibility that , in spite of this , an independent commercial press might act as the safeguard of people 's rights against a capricious or dictatorial government was rejected out of hand . |
| 12 | It is worth pointing out — as did Dr Akena Adoko in his book on the Jeffrey Archer trial — that there may have been an additional development in the folkways of the juryroom : the frequent practice of the rich ( the typical plaintiffs ) to pass on their damages to charity , as did Mr Archer , might act as an additional , and self-legitimating , incentive to take awards through the ceiling . |
| 13 | It occurred to no one that the empire might survive as a single political unit , or that it ought to do so . |
| 14 | The result of all this is that because of the divergence of Belfast English from other varieties and the internal divergence within it , we do not know beforehand what is the correct lexical input to any phonological variable , we do not necessarily know what the variants of the variable are , and we may not be at all certain about what precisely might count as a variable . |
| 15 | Only in mathematics do we see a successful artificial and international language , though when we come to talk about visual language we may see something a little like it ; and music might count as a language , though one in which it is hard to say anything very definite . |
| 16 | ( Margaret Mead 's study of the Arapesh might count as an example . ) |
| 17 | Only in retrospect does he think he might qualify as a ‘ new man ’ , a supporter of causes from which he is excluded by his situation — feminism , the Third World , anti-racism , gay rights . |
| 18 | He developed what psychologists might describe as a reluctance to address members of his family by their given names or titles . |
| 19 | I can hardly forebear , I 'm sorry for , if it 's er , a bad pun , but er , I can hardly forbear to say that it may be that I , that diocese can do with what one might describe as a dash of the Robin Hood 's , which I think Alan may er , bring to it . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that most Conservative Members accept that , while some taxes may fall on income and others on spending , there is scope for a modest tax to fall on what we might describe as the amenity of property . |
| 21 | Before my hon. Friend concludes what some people might describe as the Linlithgow questions , may I point out that there are indeed many in COSLA who would still argue , even at this late stage in our discussions on the Bill — very rushed discussions indeed — that if the Government are determined to take the colleges out of local government , there is still an important role for COSLA . |
| 22 | In many ways these reflexive moments are invaluable in helping to explain the specificities of what Evans-Pritchard ( 1951 ) suggested we might consider as an ‘ anthropological history ’ , especially as these alternative periods and the movement through the liminal phase create points in a social process when aspects of structure seem to be made more clearly apparent to the analyst . |
| 23 | Instead , he berates her and describes the misery she might expect as a beggar . |
| 24 | To human beings it might appear as a random jumble of instrumentation , but to those of the Doctor 's civilisation one glance at its internal configuration would enable the pilot to work out his position in time and space . |
| 25 | In this context , do you think that the war in the Gulf might appear as a war of religion ? |
| 26 | I mean people do n't always agree on what evidence means ; they do n't always agree on what is the best thing to do , erm and I 've developed the idea that it 's possible to do an evaluation that I like to call divergent in the sense that there might be several different things that one might do as a result of it . |
| 27 | Once he had decided on Free-range chicken à la Thallium , it was fairly important not to buy anything Elinor might choose as a substitute . |
| 28 | What the workers might think is a lively practical joke , management may regard as disruption or sabotage ; what workers might see as an intensification of their labour , management may regard as an improvement in flexibility , and so forth . |
| 29 | She wondered what excuse she might use as a pretext for calling on Sykes . |
| 30 | It had been hoped , they say , that China might emerge as the new ‘ workshop of Asia ’ but China is prostrate and the rest of Asia is weak … ’ |