Example sentences of "might [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that 94% of all items issued fell into the first two categories , and required no repair ( although 24% were in a well-used condition and might eventually require some attention ) , while only 6% fell into the last three categories and were in need of repair . |
| 2 | Yet a judicious use of some survey courses might paradoxically allow more depth in others . |
| 3 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 4 | He hoped some of the Fists might perhaps behold that gesture with joy . |
| 5 | And Evans might not handle this creep so he obtained every scrap of information available . |
| 6 | In Jan. 1829 the company had asked a second time if Lady le Fleming might not offer some assistance in view of the great expense of development work . |
| 7 | Another implication of ( 16 ) , or ( 15 ) , is that , apart from questioning the adjective , the language would also provide a means to question the noun phrase alone while " leaving behind " the predicate qualifier ( even though one might not expect such questions to be particularly common in practice ) , and in fact such questions are perfectly grammatical : ( 21 ) who(m) did he paint seated ? what did he send registered ? |
| 8 | A very constrained grammar might not contain any template or rule allowing the phrase wreck a nice , instead of the item recognise , at a particular point in processing ; a more general grammar might have to consider both interpretations . |
| 9 | The fact that the Inspirals ' next single is called ‘ Caravan ’ might not do any harm either . |
| 10 | After having attracted 6,000 paying guests while in Truro , some had fears that the visit to Bodmin might not attract many people . |
| 11 | They may be doing the same job as older people , but there are questions about whether you might not make more jobs for young people if you paid them seventy-five per cent , two-thirds of , of the going minimum wage . |
| 12 | They might not go all night , but er |
| 13 | If we knew enough and could identify all the individual animals alive , say , one hundred million years ago which were ancestral to existing mice , we would expect to find those animals all belonging to a single species ( although , if we went back far enough , we might not call that species a house mouse ) . |
| 14 | The timetable might not operate this time . |
| 15 | That being so , it is a gross breach of a privy councillor 's duty to attribute to the sovereign personal opinions at variance with the advice of her prime minister or , worse still , to suggest that the sovereign might not accept that advice constitutionally offered . |
| 16 | We 're leaving in a week and I might not get another chance to come and speak to you . |
| 17 | ‘ My wife thinks I might be risking all my credibility by coming back and that I might not get another job in football . |
| 18 | ‘ They are just black shadows in the vegetation , ’ he told me , increasingly worried that we might not get any shots at all . |
| 19 | So do n't , you get most of your marks for the first erm sort of twenty minutes writing usually unless your r I mean some of you might not get any marks at but I mean most of you will yeah you get most of your marks on the first twenty minutes . |
| 20 | Afterwards there was gloomy talk that short tours by Home Unions might not have much appeal for either country in the future . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed at the time that he might not have much need of intimacy . |
| 22 | ‘ The twins and Kerry-Jane might not have much flesh on them , but boy — they sure can pack it away ! ’ she laughed . |
| 23 | They might not have another booking . |
| 24 | ‘ You might not have any enemies , but I certainly do . |
| 25 | A lot of people might not have any taste for such a thing . ’ |
| 26 | Might not have any jobs left . |
| 27 | I was talking about comparative , where some er situations and all this , that and the next thing , right , I mean one that , quite a , quite a useful phrase what you say is , is n't that true that , no you might not like that phrase , right , but you can take phrases like that and you can think to yourself can I , can I , right . |
| 28 | Remember that they want your custom , although at times it might not seem that way ! |
| 29 | I might not win this time . |
| 30 | But I knew he might not take this view — it is only hindsight that makes you take it , and he was not old enough for hindsight . |