Example sentences of "might put [noun] " in BNC.

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1 US says Russians might put rouble on gold standard
2 I said er you might put housewife or you might put market researcher down , he said whatever you like so that 's that one . .
3 Keeping him in quarantine is much wiser than producing a situation in which you might put Iran back in control of the Gulf , after eight years in which the whole of the outside world , including the Soviet Union and the US , built up this great military monster in Iraq , in order to prevent Iran from running the Gulf .
4 She 'd intended to tell him she wanted to open the safety-deposit box , but it occurred to her that he might put obstacles in her way .
5 FIRMS digging open-cast coal are worried that the Government 's energy review might put curbs on a profitable business in an attempt to save pit jobs .
6 I said er you might put housewife or you might put market researcher down , he said whatever you like so that 's that one . .
7 might put ideas
8 This might put pressures on the sons and it could well be that not all would feel able or willing to take on the task .
9 Manfred Kerstan , the German owner and skipper of the yacht Albatross , thought that the entry fee might put people off the ARC in future and that a lower fee with correspondingly fewer organised social functions , might , in fact , be better .
10 Engineers should not exceed their level of competence where the result might put people at risk , nor ask others to exceed theirs .
11 McLeish repressed the malicious thought that this event might put Francesca 's nose just a little bit out of joint .
12 and I mean I have done several since I left the Scottish Office as well which is quite good and I thought that I might put Sandy at his ease by telling a couple of amusing incidents that have happened post the Scottish Office days
13 As always , Greta was prepared to take up the challenge ( ‘ We might put pressure on the War Office at this end ’ ) , but was forestalled by an offer from another direction .
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