Example sentences of "[art] [noun] and might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mir Jafar , who was made Nawab , had an adequate claim to the throne and might have been a good ruler under other circumstances , but it was quite clear that he was on the throne simply because the Company had decided to put him there . |
| 2 | Britain favoured the Hashemites and might consider Abdallah a suitable ruler in due course . |
| 3 | The Yorkes lived next door to the Shergolds and might have gleaned some scraps of information that he could wheedle out of Harriet . |
| 4 | They could n't be allowed to do this , because they were still attached to the creance and might get themselves caught up round the perch . |
| 5 | Elves and Men had come to blows in the past and might do so again . |
| 6 | c ) the cost of separate insurance provision and increased vetting and supervision which could be passed onto the profession and might outweigh the savings made by grant limitation ; |
| 7 | A post-mortem examination revealed she was HIV positive and health chiefs decided to alert women who had given birth at the hospital and might feel they were at risk of infection . |
| 8 | Mr Scarff said : ‘ I could n't carry on employing staff who supported the men and might have been able to leak sensitive information . ’ |
| 9 | Any man who did not do his work could be reported to the police and might go to gaol for a week or so . |
| 10 | Reid almost did n't have the mount on Dr Devious for the maestro Lester Piggott , was hovering in the background and might have pushed Reid to one side . |
| 11 | However , when there is no chance that demand will fluctuate over the duration of the " event " , for example where the " event " is the week or two of heavy bookings at a hotel over Christmas , payment might be offered in the form of a lump sum at the end and might include a " loyalty bonus " for those who stay for the full period . |
| 12 | As a result , while Consolidated ponce about and play the rebel and might reach 50,000 , J might get the word to millions . |
| 13 | Mr Davies , annoyed at comparisons with Sir John , will bring a different style and approach to the job and feels his period at the Foreign Office and Treasury as an adviser to Nigel Lawson , former Chancellor , will be useful for the CBI and might help avoid ‘ lobbing bombs over the wall ’ . |
| 14 | Damages only follow when the loss arises naturally from the breach and might have been anticipated by the parties . |
| 15 | I see from today 's Financial Times that a leading member of the board of the Bundesbank said yesterday that the Maastricht summit was a failure and might prove to be ’ a suicidal failure ’ — serious words from a key member of the body that drew up the detailed proposals for European economic and monetary union . |