Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun pl] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bradley finds it hard to imagine ‘ a stockbroker and a labourer screaming and bellowing in the wilds of Dorset ’ , but at the same time , he suspects that perhaps British men might get some benefit out of it . |
| 2 | Now obviously commercial requirements might mean that that is modified to some extent . |
| 3 | Because syntax is embedded in discourse , entirely different forms might have similar functions ( i.e. be used as equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ) ; for this reason it is sometimes difficult to specify a principled way of knowing where to stop counting particular forms as variants of a variable . |
| 4 | Students of Russia who hail from much smaller and less heterogeneous countries might pause to ask themselves whether democratic rule under any kind of government is possible in a country as awesome in its administrative complexity as this one . |
| 5 | Less generous critics might say it 's his last tilt at a windmill . |
| 6 | Starfarers in less well-protected vessels might hear the scrabbling of claws upon their hulls , or wailing incoherent voices , lascivious enticements , rumblings of wrath . |
| 7 | The adventurers could use the information to denounce the suppliers to the authorities and hope for a reward ( or perhaps a Chaos cult declaring war on them ) , or less scrupulous characters might turn to blackmail , either for money or for magical training . |
| 8 | The whole question was given a fresh airing in the March issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics , and if ethical considerations prove indecisive perhaps legal pressures might exert an untypically beneficial influence in persuading all doctors to give their patients the best professional counsel . |
| 9 | Less robust persons might need a siesta . |
| 10 | One result would be that the Government could not time a general election to its own advantage , going to the country at the moment when it feels most popular ; so general elections might result in a change of Government more often . |
| 11 | Less amused spectators might have worried that the whole practice was superstitious . |
| 12 | The fact is that neither congress nor the American people were ready in the early 1980s for the demolition of the welfare state , however much conservative theorists might believe that to be desirable . |
| 13 | the less experienced teams might prefer to be placed early on in the programme as it can be unnerving to be left waiting ; |
| 14 | This ‘ jargon ’ serves not only to highlight distinctions which looser , more commonsensical terms might obscure , but they imply most emphatically that narrative is governed not by any relation to reality , but by its own internal laws and logic . |
| 15 | Other more idiosyncratic constructs might include ‘ ambitious ’ and ‘ not prepared to trample on colleagues ’ or , in the case of a response to a particular colour in a painting , ‘ warm ’ opposed not by the conventional ‘ cold ’ but by the more idiosyncratic ‘ clinical ’ . |
| 16 | The light , fragile voice which is n't that dissimilar to the one showcased on more acoustic numbers might suggest shyness , but you can never predict what she 's going to say next . |
| 17 | The more sophisticated Tories might have their doubts but not the hoi polloi . |
| 18 | More elaborate designs might use pin headers and sockets so that flying leads can be plugged into the board , making it easy to disconnect them to remove the board for servicing or repair . |
| 19 | John Ferguson , the Canberra Raiders wing who lines up against Widnes tonight in the Foster 's World Club Challenge , is little known outside rugby league circles , but within the game he commands a whispered respect his more famous namesakes might envy . |
| 20 | More complicated enquiries might take several days . ’ |
| 21 | More adventurous dressings might contain fruits or cheese . |
| 22 | Apart from the problems which may arise when ‘ line ’ management resents interference by ‘ staff ’ advisors in their functional area , the drawback to functional organisation is simply that more efficient structures might exist which would be more appropriate in a particular situation . |
| 23 | Their success hinges on deceiving the female and , since this is achieved by having a separate territory for each female , it is easy to see how larger and more experienced birds might have the advantage . |
| 24 | Certainly in the matter of military aid , as the working party concluded , the US ( without sending troops ) was in a position to make a unique contribution : but even more positive results might have been expected from economic assistance . |
| 25 | Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms . |
| 26 | Had the Emperor Titan been moving any more swiftly — had Yeremi not drained power and slowed the lumbering charge — both great robots might have toppled over devastatingly . |
| 27 | Lovers of wide open sands might choose Comillas , a little fishing port where a simple meal with wine at Il Puerto will cost under £5 . |
| 28 | The problem with a literal approach is that it has frequently been used to persuade a court that wholly unlikely consequences might arise and that the court should , in the light of those consequences conclude that the restraint is unreasonable . |
| 29 | It may be that some of our roles conflict ( e.g. parental responsibilities might conflict with commitments at work ) or different groups might impose conflicting expectations in relation to one particular role ( e.g. in a man 's role as shop steward the managers might expect him to calm disputes while his work-mates might demand that he never compromise with the bosses ) . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , other forms of assessment do not lend themselves to precise measures of test-retest reliability and the clinician may need to judge how far situational factors might have influenced the two assessments . |