Example sentences of "[pers pn] might [vb infin] [pron] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I might not wish to do so because I might believe it to be wrong to buy an Italian car for one reason or another . |
| 2 | You might want it to be different again in six months ' time , or even next week — but do you love it as it is right now ? |
| 3 | Having lavished so much time , money and effort on their house , you might expect it to be a work of art — which , as Peter modestly admits , ‘ It is . ’ |
| 4 | If acquired distinctiveness depends on associative mechanisms , we might expect it to be attenuated or abolished by a change of context that renders these associations less effective . |
| 5 | As we understand more about a text 's specific historicity , how it emerged from a distinctive social embedment , we might expect it to be unavailable sometimes for current employment . |
| 6 | If the latter were the case , then we might expect there to be a lot of Creole forms in the speech of both girls . |
| 7 | So we might expect there to be a , a set of policies coming in to , to ease the creation of that inequality . |
| 8 | Yet if , like John Cromartie in David Garnett 's novella A Man in the Zoo , such a person did not object to being caged up ( Cromartie enjoyed it ) then we would raise no objection to its continuing , however unenviable we might think it to be ( Garnett 1932 ) . |
| 9 | In his present distrustful mood , he might imagine her to be a gold-digger on top of everything else . |