Example sentences of "might at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sought advice on the matter from officers of the main teacher unions and were told that , although it was not the policy of any union to place an embargo on questionnaires from bodies separate from the LEA , nevertheless attitudes and morale might at that time be such as to produce little willingness to respond . |
| 2 | But Douglas , concerned about numbers , was against any diminution of their main assembly which might at any time be faced with confronting Balliol 's entire army . |
| 3 | Crude threats to withdraw advertising might at any time have been counter-productive . |
| 4 | But it was clearly possible that W. might at any time decide to refuse consent to some form of treatment , even if it was only the oral administration of medicines , because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is a desire by the sufferer to ‘ be in control ’ and such a refusal would be an obvious way of demonstrating this . |
| 5 | The wife had then deserted the husband and was temporarily wrongfully away from home ; but she might at any time return . |
| 6 | FIMBRA was entitled at its discretion from time to time to make spot checks on companies subject to its regulatory umbrella and therefore the details of the businesses carried out by the company might at any time have become known to it . |
| 7 | The light was spreading fast and if they were asleep in one of the rock shelters they might at any moment wake and stumble on Marian . |
| 8 | He observed people closely , as was only natural for a painter , and he was already watching Mauve , the friendly mentor who might at any moment turn into an enemy . |
| 9 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 10 | The bars of Victoria 's cot were black and menacing and the line of light under the door from the landing was a brilliant pencil which might at any moment rear up and scrawl ‘ She is not normall ’ lambently on the wall . |
| 11 | She thought that he 'd not started to drink , but might at any moment . |
| 12 | My immediate thought was that Frankenstein had encounted a bear , and might at any moment come dashing back and discover me . |
| 13 | The stone buildings surrounding it seemed less solid in the moonlight , as if they might at any moment shimmer and disappear . |
| 14 | For the world of the established bourgeois was also considered to be basically insecure , a state of war in which they might at any moment become the casualties of competition , fraud or economic slump , though in practice the businessmen who were thus vulnerable probably formed only a minority of the middle classes , and the penalty of failure was rarely manual labour , let alone the workhouse . |
| 15 | We might at this stage , however , recall from Chapter 2 the processes outlined by the Chicago School and , in particular , by G. H. Mead . |
| 16 | I might at this moment be living in anguish with Peter Datchett . |
| 17 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 18 | We cover the whole of the surrounding area to give a wider view and report on events that might at some time affect the town . ’ |