Example sentences of "if it might " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Eastern Europe ’ sounds as if it might include the unreforming Soviet Union . |
| 2 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 3 | I 'd rather sit and do something like sewing even if it might be monotonous to someone else . |
| 4 | Shown in to the Casa Guidi by Annunciata , she did wonder if it might be wise to tell Mr Browning first but he was not about . |
| 5 | But the speculation that Sycorax has to do with Colchian magic , because that was the land of the Coraxi , sounds as if it might be true . |
| 6 | Tanners Wine Merchants on Wyler Cop is a good place to visit : it looks as if it might be trade only , but is n't : march round the back , through the yard and go in . |
| 7 | Since the Board are entering into a Scheme for adult education in co-operation with the LEA in Cambridgeshire much in the same way ( as ) had been done in Bedfordshire it seems as if it might be best for the Board to be recognised as the Responsible Body for this type of course . |
| 8 | In Lewis the effect of the decline in the inshore fishing industry was all the more dramatic because it looked for a time as if it might be averted . |
| 9 | I am writing to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the following tracks in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 10 | I am writing to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the following tracks in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 11 | I am writing to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the track ‘ The Chocolate Girl ’ by Deacon Blue in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 12 | I am writing to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the following tracks in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 13 | I would like to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the track Message in a Bottle by Police in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 14 | I would like to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the track The Chocolate Girl by Deacon Blue in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 15 | I would like to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the track Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head by Sacha Distel in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 16 | I would like to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the track Hi-Ho ! |
| 17 | I wonder if it might be possible for you to confirm your or NEC 's interest in the tape , and , if you intend to go ahead , the specifications you need . |
| 18 | Although this sounds as if it might be extremely uncomfortable , the cervix , like the vagina , is surprisingly poorly supplied with sensory nerve-endings , and a relaxed patient may be totally unaware that any samples are being taken from this site . |
| 19 | Apart from asking me if it might be ‘ right lip ’ or ‘ left edge ’ he just got on with it himself . |
| 20 | He rang the bell and when he was greeted by a rather surly butler he enquired , very politely , if it might be possible for him to speak with the Signora Calvino on a matter of the utmost urgency . |
| 21 | At the cadenza , she stumbled down the keyboard with something that had elements of a flourish but ended up sounding more like a digital coronary , an awful , shaming collapse of the fingers that , at the last minute , recovered itself and looked as if it might turn into something like the chord of A minor . |
| 22 | It had a sort of changing-room summer house , and a brick building that looked hopefully as if it might have something to do with heating the water . |
| 23 | Life in New Zealand was hard for the original settlers , but not quite as hard for Bruce and Jim 's generation , and it looked as if it might be a veritable paradise for the children 's . |
| 24 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 25 | Geoffrey Smith , and his associates Michael Mackett and Bernard Moss , have been experimenting with the possibility of modifying vaccinia to make a vaccine against hepatitis B — a major health problem in the Third World — and it is beginning to look as if it might work ( Nature , vol 302 , p 490 ) . |
| 26 | Somehow she could never hear disembodied footsteps on the stairs without wondering fleetingly if it might be Mark returning as unexpectedly as he had left . |
| 27 | And the Ode to Duty , with its opening lines sounds as if it might have been written by an Old Testament Prophet . |
| 28 | It looks as if it might cramp the teacher 's style . |
| 29 | If the mash is beginning to look as if it might be too runny , cook gently to reduce . |
| 30 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |