Example sentences of "[noun pl] might have a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last the Eastern Bloc nations might have a chance of catching up with the West , and we owe them a debt . |
| 2 | It seems that some of these proteins might have a significant part to play in the treatment of nerve injury , neuropathies and tumours of glial cell origin . |
| 3 | The sodium and calcium cations , Na+ and Ca2+ , would loosely bond to these oxygens occupying occasional holes and voids in the glass-forming network ; that the modifying cations might have a well-defined local structure was all but ruled out . |
| 4 | Amongst liberals , there has been a tendency to believe that remedying the gender imbalances in these books might have a positive influence on girls ' educational achievement . |
| 5 | I have managed to breed my Port Hoplo catfish and I thought I would drop you a line explaining how I succeeded so that other readers might have a try . |
| 6 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 7 | It did not take me long to wish that we Christians might have a similar preparation for confirmation and acceptance as a full worshipping and working member of the Church . |
| 8 | After about 2 miles , Sir Robert Hamilton chose a position on the muir where he thought his amateur troops might have a strategic advantage . |
| 9 | Screwdriver blades might have a retractable sheath or ultrasonic guards , for example . |
| 10 | Thus , even medieval land law , although conscious of the principle that third parties to a contract can not sue or be sued upon it , recognised that the covenants in leases might have a wider operation than in ordinary contracts . |
| 11 | For example , a national organisation divided into ten regions might have a customer liaison department at Head Office . |
| 12 | The murders might have a political motive . |
| 13 | It may seem strange that lawyers might have a vested interest in making the law move faster . |
| 14 | A more accurate way of conveying the thought that men exist or that dragons are fictional would be by saying " For some ( at least one ) x , x is a man " and " Nothing is a dragon " ; employing expressions , that is , that correspond to what logicians call , " quantifiers " , and enable us to dispel any lingering illusion that existential propositions might have a subject/predicate structure . |
| 15 | Propositions like " Men exist ( or actually exist ) " , it is claimed , look odd and mysterious , and their quantified " canonical " paraphrases , while admittedly helping to remove any suggestion that such propositions might have a subject/predicate structure , do not quite succeed in alleviating the mystery . |
| 16 | It was once thought that tool users might have a more complex and sophisticated nervous system than other animals , and that by studying them we might find out something of significance about the human race itself . |
| 17 | In the boys ' groups , any recognition that images of girls might have a different value from images of boys was met with intense embarrassment . |
| 18 | But when she had made her reckless decision to sail with him , it had never occurred to her that the smooth , sunny Mediterranean of holiday brochures might have a darker , more dangerous face . |
| 19 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 20 | The doctor had no idea what might be causing the red blotches , but he did have a suspicion that the other symptoms might have a common cause . |
| 21 | The imaginary ones might have a different number of legs or eyes , some with tails , others without . |
| 22 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 23 | Moreover , ASFV and vaccinia virus RNA polymerases might have a slightly different subunit composition , because ASFV encodes a protein similar to the sixth subunit of yeast RNA polymerase II ( RPB6 ; J.M.Rodríguez , R.J.Y. , J.F.Rodríguez and E.V. , unpublished ) , while no similar protein is encoded in the genome of vaccinia virus . |
| 24 | The cause of Dupuytren 's disease is unknown , but inflammatory cells might have a role . |
| 25 | ‘ You 'd have to signal in advance which issues you regarded as a matter of confidence — for instance , the Tories might have a crack at coal privatisation but might not want to go to the country on it if they failed . ’ |