Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pers pn] might [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were even rumblings that we might represent a sort of Karmic return of this man — who had apparently shared our obsession for their sailing craft , as well as for Bira 's surrounding wildlife . " |
| 2 | ‘ But do n't start getting any ideas that she might throw a fit of jealousy . |
| 3 | The Macmillan era had aroused hopes in leftist hearts that we might achieve a mixed economy that made sense ; but the murkiness of political scandal and the absurdities of needless party discord rendered Mr Macmillan 's last months unhappy and confused . |
| 4 | To the extent that such approaches may suggest the desirability of changing over to a counter-force nuclear policy , they escape from the moral frying-pan of counter-city targeting into the strategic fire of counter-force , which has the twin disadvantages that it might put a premium on first strike and that it would in any case result in frightful civilian losses . |
| 5 | President Gorbachev 's special envoy Yevgeny Primakov visited Iraq twice in October , but suggestions that he might elicit a change in the Iraqi stance proved unfounded . |
| 6 | Copernicus , on the left , raises the possibility of the earth 's motion , Galileo produces his telescope , and Kepler expresses a desire for wings that he might visit the new world — as indeed he had dreamed of doing in his unpublished Copernican text Somnium . |
| 7 | We have evidence of cannibalism and other habits that we might consider a trifle unsavoury , but this does not mean that Neanderthal society was necessarily uncivilized . |
| 8 | There can be no sense in the DTI 's refusal to publish the House of Fraser report on the grounds that it might prejudice a Serious Fraud Office inquiry when it took the opposite course over Blue Arrow . |
| 9 | Unix System Laboratories Inc president Roel Pieper said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |
| 10 | Unix System Labs president , Roel Pieper , said in a talk with a bunch of software developers that he might license the tag ‘ Desktop Unix ’ to his COSE partners but never the unadorned word Unix . |