Example sentences of "[prep] things [conj] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is now a general agreement that to perceive a three-dimensional object requires that one starts out with a set of models in one 's head of the kinds of things that might exist , and of what a 2-D image of them might look like , and that one should then test the actual images on one 's retina against these models . |
| 2 | There i , there are a number of things that might affect the way in which we speak and how we use language in every day conversation , such as where we live , where we went to school , what |
| 3 | If somebody 's saying to you do you want our guarantee — it 's fifty pounds , or it 's a hundred pounds — if you 're spending that sort of money you 'll probably pay out for it and you 'll think you 're covered for all sorts of things that might go wrong . |
| 4 | By comparison , the folk idiom and long melodic phrases of Dvorak 's American String Quartet seem gentle and homely , yet they too conveyed their own form of passionate yearning for homeland rather than , as in the Janacek , for things that might have been . |
| 5 | But er that was , that was very much er clutching at things that might have been at the last moment . |