Example sentences of "[noun pl] might have a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | For example , a national organisation divided into ten regions might have a customer liaison department at Head Office . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The cause of Dupuytren 's disease is unknown , but inflammatory cells might have a role . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |