Example sentences of "[coord] this might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know you do , Harry , but she herself is well aware of her doubtful birth , and this might affect her answer if you ask her to marry you . |
| 2 | There is some evidence that the concentration of acid in the stomach is highest in the night and this might explain why the pain associated with excess gastric acid is most marked at night and can wake you then . |
| 3 | At Châtillon the Old King was apparently willing to accept the proposed exchange and this might explain why Richard rounded on Philip , calling him a " vile recreant " . |
| 4 | He is likely to be easily distracted by the sights and sounds around him , and this might make him stray into the road or trip and fall . |
| 5 | The one exception to this is teachers , and this might result from the fact that many education authorities ( teachers ' employers ) give all part-time teachers temporary contracts . |
| 6 | However , it seems that leave is refused for between a quarter and a third of all AJRs , and this might suggest that the leave requirement is performing some other function such as keeping the number of pending AJRs down so that the delay between the granting of leave and the hearing is not too great . |
| 7 | And this might lead us to suspect that there is a cultural association , certainly for British English speakers , between femininity and middle-class language on one hand and masculinity and working-class speech on the other . |
| 8 | On the other hand , our log-power estimates have only approximately a gaussian distribution , and this might lead to incorrect calculation of the likelihood of local peaks . |
| 9 | But by crossing direct in this way she could more than halve the time to the keeper 's cottage , and this might mean that the keeper could get to the West Wood in time to capture the deer-stealers before they drove away . |
| 10 | Publication of the report is then held over until after the review , and this might mean a further six months . |
| 11 | I 've asked them as well and this might take them into the second week er to start with their pupils process on a Wednesday morning whereby in each classroom there would be a me master year plan even if it means they have to buy four and divide it up but I su I suggest that I would do something , you know , produce one and on that they will write pertinent to the the form to the form er and continue to add on that over , you know as and when it 's relevant er , dates for completion of course work , it might be module testing etcetera and I 'm going to ask at briefing that any anything that a teacher has put down for children , it might be just you know Mi Mr x's group is mentioned at briefing so they can write down what 's pertinent to them and therefore |
| 12 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 13 | By 1939 it was widely believed that no more wooden aeroplanes would be built and this might have come true if the War had not created shortages of aluminium and of the machinery and skilled men for handling it . |
| 14 | This raises questions at present unanswerable , and complicated by the existence of a second long base in the sanctuary which seems to have supported a pursuit-scene ( possibly Zeus and the Nymph Aegina on whom he begot Aiakos , Telamon 's father ) ; and this might have been a first west pediment . |
| 15 | However , the galaxies would also have had some small sideways velocities , and this might have made it possible for there to have been an earlier contracting phase of the universe , in which the galaxies might have come very close together but somehow managed to avoid hitting each other . |
| 16 | There was a trend towards more intestinal pain in the women with hysterectomy and this might have become significant with larger numbers of subjects . |
| 17 | Shakespeare is thought to have been strongly influenced by Spenser in these choruses , for instance , and this might have been reflected in the comments . |
| 18 | And this might have got them far enough and therefore they so the movement is , is not gon na go on from there , it 's stopped because the peasants have achieved everything they wanted to achieve . |
| 19 | And this might come as a surprise to our brethren in the popular national press — Thirty-eight . |
| 20 | And this might sound like a facile comment , but should you purchase a MIDI preamp and fancy using a processor as well , remember to get one with MIDI ! |
| 21 | The high figure from the farm was due to government support and this might fall in the near future . |
| 22 | And this might help to explain why Gen Robertson devoted such a significant part of his signal to the order that " all surrendered personnel of established Jugoslav nationality who were serving in German forces should be disarmed and handed over to local Jugoslav forces " . |
| 23 | Eventually they could become brittle with age , but this might take some years . |
| 24 | There was no rope connecting one with the other but this might have disintegrated completely over the years . |
| 25 | Veneers appear in the 1880s although an eighteenth-century example was discovered during the 1983–4 excavations at St Augustine-the-Less , Bristol , but this might have been no more than an attempt on the part of the coffin-maker to mask some splits at the shoulder caused by over-zealous saw-cuts when kerfing . |
| 26 | But this might allow them to be retained , when other class affiliations are lost . |
| 27 | The downhillers will win the headlines , but this might win more hearts ; free style ski-ing . |
| 28 | An article is more likely to be accepted if it says something new but this might annoy some of his party leaders . |
| 29 | As already indicated , laws-of-war considerations may lead writers or policy-makers to advocate targeting missile bases rather than cities — but this might prove in practice an open invitation to compete in nuclear hardware or , even worse , an incentive to strike first . |