Example sentences of "it might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that turned out to be possible , it might suggest there is access from a higher level to quite remote lower-level translations , unless one was prepared to redescribe such a phenomenon in terms of our ( levels of programming language ) metaphor as ‘ This patient has found out how to access a highest level command GROW A NEW NERVE TO YOUR LEFT FOOT though without , of course , having any access to the translation of that command in terms of the nerve cell processes themselves . ’ |
| 2 | Or it might suggest that the religious symbols , by which men and women have conferred meaning on their lives , meet such pressing psychological needs that they remain impervious to scientific frames of meaning , which , in the last analysis , only dictate how things are and how they came to be so , without pretending to answer the why and the wherefore . |
| 3 | Or it might suggest that , despite a total lack of plausibility in their claims for knowledge , religious movements have survived either through institutional inertia , or insofar as they assist in conferring a sense of identity on national or local communities . |
| 4 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 5 | Dougal wondered if the absence of upper-case letters was a conscious literary gimmick ; alternatively , it might suggest a simple failure to master the typewriter 's shift-key . |
| 6 | The sailor 's personal log might not only record what has happened on the journey so far , it might also speculate about what the crew should do with the merman they 've caught in their nets ; it might contain thoughts about food and the way it is stored on board ship ; it might suggest new ways of storing food . |
| 7 | But the Union is not faring as well as it might think . |
| 8 | He 'd seen that done in a film and had always wondered how it might feel . |
| 9 | It might feel the same way again , ’ one diplomat pointed out . |
| 10 | IF EVEREST were a person — and Tibetans call it the Goddess Mother of the World — it might feel a bit put upon . |
| 11 | It might feel it , she said to herself , but it was n't the end of the world . |
| 12 | Outside the day was fine enough , too clear perhaps ; each roughness on the skyline was sharply visible , as though it might rain later . |
| 13 | He did so when play was about to resume after a stoppage early in the last session of the fourth day , with the score 384 for 7 , and he could hardly have timed it more precisely ; 60 for 3 overnight , and , as next morning it looked as though it might rain at any time , Marshall decided to polish the rest off quickly . |
| 14 | I was afraid it might rain for Christmas . ’ |
| 15 | The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play . |
| 16 | ‘ It might rain and then your hair would get wet . ’ |
| 17 | no , you 're not walking , not this time it 's damp out there and it might rain again |
| 18 | Because it said on the packet you 'll plant them immediately after buying and we do n't know when Aunty Gwen bought them and it might rain tomorrow as well , I think I ought to put them in while it 's fine , now |
| 19 | Suchocka , whose Democratic Union ( UD ) favoured a referendum , was concerned that it might destabilize the government coalition , which included the Christian National Union ( ZChN ) , the main force behind the draft anti-abortion law . |
| 20 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 21 | We hoped it might form the basis of a small ‘ colony ’ providing a change for all concerned . |
| 22 | Er are you saying that it is any part of the Council 's case that this land th it it 's it is er a possibility that having this land as a strategic reserve er can er is of assistance , or are you saying that it is simply er having included it in , it might form part of a strategic reserve ? |
| 23 | Indeed it might have-in a different situation where some or all of the rest of the causal circumstance for e was missing . |
| 24 | Every Buddhist boy became a monk for a period , it might be for a lent , or a year or two , it might continue for a lifetime or be as short as a week . |
| 25 | If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all ! |
| 26 | If so , programme for what you really want , it might arrive in an unexpected way . |
| 27 | It was the fear of death and all the ways in which it might arrive : shooting , strangulation , suffocation . |
| 28 | When Mother Pig tells Tottie that she 's having a new baby , and that it might arrive on Tottie 's birthday , Tottie is n't very happy . |
| 29 | If you said please may I have the marmalade it might arrive . |
| 30 | The only , if anything it might shrink a little . |