Example sentences of "might [adv] [vb infin] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Or you might only need occasional access when you ca n't guarantee being near a PC with a LAN card .
2 And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider .
3 For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness .
4 The decision to cut the federal funds rate — the level at which banks borrow from each other overnight — from 4 to 33/4 p.c. is a far cry from market concerns of a few weeks ago that the Fed might soon tighten monetary policy .
5 Intestinal NaCl absorption is also stimulated by respiratory acidosis and by exposure to volatile fatty acids , interventions which lower pH i and might thus activate apical membrane Na + /H + exchange via an intracellular H + sensitive modifier site .
6 A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements , not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government 's priority services strategy .
7 Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn .
8 Firstly , chemical carcinogens in tobacco smoke might directly induce cervical carcinogenesis .
9 She 'd decided to go along with the FBI for a laugh , and because it might possibly help British Intelligence .
10 Monitoring the body temperature of shiftworkers might also give early warning of shiftwork intolerance , allowing transfers to day-work before performance has deteriorated .
11 As well as giving him moral ascendancy over the rest of the company , driving himself to exhaustion might also cloud critical judgement , so that comments would be made on the effort that had gone into the show rather than on its quality . )
12 A set of statutory guidelines , similar to those proposed in Australia , indicating factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a director has met the relevant standard might also have educative value and be useful in stimulating the development of a more detailed body of jurisprudence .
13 One might tentatively define complementary medicine as diagnostic , therapeutic , and preventive procedures excluded from mainstream medicine ; some may have passed the test of time , most are of unproven effectiveness , and all are based on unscientific philosophies .
14 It might even bring British computer people up to the level of their more professional continental opposite numbers .
15 But the associative theory can predict that the mechanisms that normally produce acquired distinctiveness might fail to do so , or might even produce negative transfer with certain sorts of test task .
16 No mention now of the numbers of troops or military units slaughtered ( the Hebrew term translated ‘ thousand ’ in verse 10 might well mean military unit in that context ) .
17 These arguments are attractive , and might well justify private property in personal possessions , and also such productive assets as may be needed for the satisfactory fulfillment of an individual 's human potential .
18 However , there is no firm evidence that hospital overuse is a consistent feature in all countries , and this perception might well reflect overstretched hospital management in certain areas .
19 The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right .
20 The series might well have different target markets and be published to different standards .
21 Dr Cuzick said it was very likely that women with only minor abnormalities but high levels of HPV 16 might well have high grade disease and need a colposcopy check .
22 A company obtaining a route franchise might well invest in new station building ; a bus company franchise might well establish seamless interchange facilities .
23 If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission .
24 Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice .
25 And an extended payments schedule might well recover the debt more surely than strict enforcement — which might instead precipitate financial collapse .
26 A demonstration project in Zambia has shown that such screening is achievable and might significantly reduce adverse pregnancy outcomes .
27 There has been some concern expressed that these courses offered by the former colleges of education have different objectives from those in art colleges , and might therefore lack professional competence , thereby creating ‘ a dual standard within higher education ’ .
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