Example sentences of "[pron] [that] might [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 2 | I was guarding a moving shadow ; trying to prevent something that might not happen , searching for the intention so as to stop it occurring . |
| 3 | The principle must be whether it is right to use public money to reward something that has happened anyway or to encourage something that might not happen if we do not use that public money . |
| 4 | On his view the fact that it ceased to be a probability , and did occur , is something that might not have happened . |
| 5 | is something that might not have been anticipated : the principle finding concerning trends in class mobility since 1972 can stand unchanged even when in … 1983 … unemployment is regarded as a separate mobility status . |
| 6 | America might be a superpower , as the Iranians kept saying , but Iran — as Hakim put it — was a ‘ super religious power ’ , one that might easily find the pretext of some religious occasion to persuade Hizbollah to set the captives free . |
| 7 | Hitherto he had felt such a step to be premature , and one that might dangerously provoke the USSR . |
| 8 | Except for whatever part of her that might once have been Jenny . |
| 9 | It only remained for us to forgive one another , and for my part I gladly forgave him for anything that might still need forgiveness . |
| 10 | But Ruth Rendell , here , is not trying to describe anything that might truly have happened . |