Example sentences of "might [vb infin] the [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exaggerated anorectal smooth muscle responses to rectal distension and the attenuated external sphincter response explain why patients with complete supraconal spinal lesions experience uncontrollable reflex defecation , while the persistance of external anal sphincter contraction and the absence of any external anal sphincter relaxation during straining ‘ as if to defecate ’ might explain the difficulty that these patients have in consciously expelling rectal contests . |
| 2 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 3 | The stress on Levi 's insensitivity to religion is allowed to suggest that all Jews are religious , and there are readers for whom this might signal the corollary that all Jews are Zionists , and are likely to be supporters of Israeli government policy . |
| 4 | He takes himself to have true premises and a valid inference to a true conclusion ; the premises might include the proposition that in the past he has made mistakes . |
| 5 | This might include the fact that aerosols and butane seem to be especially dangerous products , particularly when sprayed directly into the mouth . |
| 6 | Editor , — Snake oil salesmen might recognise the treatment that was given to Simon Crawford 's patient , but not homoeopaths , lay or medical . |
| 7 | The proportion of any additional income that is saved ( the marginal propensity to save ) will tend to vary according to the tastes and preferences of the individual , and one might expect the proportion that is saved to increase as income increases . |
| 8 | The freedom with which the epithet ‘ senile ’ is attributed to the old , but especially old ladies , might give the impression that the disease is virtually universal among all those over 65 . |
| 9 | Some aspects of Kuhn 's writings might give the impression that his account of the nature of science is a purely descriptive one , that is , that he aims to do nothing more than to describe scientific theories or paradigms and the activity of scientists . |
| 10 | However , being apparently an integrationist solution , it might bring the danger that specialist training in dementia was neglected for these carers . |
| 11 | Er and of course if you 're in one group , you might think that something 's trivial and you might denigrate another a group for talking about those things , when in fact that group sees it as an important talk about it might see the thing that the other group hold dear to talk about as something trivial , and to denigrate . |
| 12 | In the first place , says Freud , the child wo n't obey any longer , necessarily , because now he 's got nothing to fear , and secondly , a child might resent the lie that has been told to him . |
| 13 | So the only place to put such a black hole , in which one might use the energy that it emitted , would be in orbit around the earth — and the only way that one could get it to orbit the earth would be to attract it there by towing a large mass in front of it , rather like a carrot in front of a donkey . |
| 14 | For example , in our manufacturing example , increasing exports reduces home sales and so we might use the criterion that exports should be as close as possible to their goal : 12 . |
| 15 | At the very least , a Channel 5 might convince the Government that perhaps the BBC does not need to take advertising just yet . |
| 16 | For example , we might draw the inference that a child who is able to name a picture of a boat , while looking at a picture book with her mother , will be able to name it on any other occasion ; the child ‘ knows the meaning of the word boat ’ . |
| 17 | Finally , it might reinforce the notion that taking tablets is the way to deal with stress , and it also provides the means of taking an overdose . |
| 18 | For instance , a breastfeeding promotion campaign that focuses too much on child health goals might miss the fact that six half-hour feedings per day would seriously burden already over-worked and time-constrained mothers . |
| 19 | Rather , " however " creates a contrast concerning the idea of a writer foreseeing the effect on later audiences — something which pulls the essay in a different direction from one which might create the expectation that Othello would be introduced . |
| 20 | In the letter , Dr Carey said the juxtaposition of ‘ coming out ’ liturgies with prayers for Aids sufferers might foster the myth that HIV was only a problem for the homosexual community . |
| 21 | It is easy to see why a police officer might take the view that there is no obvious use for a time-consuming and expensive procedure such as an identity parade where it appears that the suspect is known to the witness . |
| 22 | and we , we would ask of that , but the next point and erm , is this my Lord erm at the moment erm the negotiations are erm proceeding in relation to the house , about which we have heard evidence , er , we could not properly buy it until it had been investigated by the court of protection and there was approval of that , and er it will be necessary for er consideration to be given as to how it should be purchased , in practical terms , firstly your Lordship has erm awarded a figure of seventy one thousand pounds , then there is the eighty thousand pounds on the existing house which takes one up to a hundred and fifty or thereabouts , and one sees that the special damages and interest thereon comes to something over fifty two thousand pounds to which these er parents will be entitled in the normal way , and if they were to apply , they might do and apply , that would go a long way to purchasing it and the court of protection , if it approved that might take the view that it would be fair to take something out of the notional aspect of damages for loss of earnings , because after all the plaintiff would have spent his earnings for housing and so on in the future , that , that is the sort of problems that now have to be tackled er what , what we would respect and suggest is er simply that there is liberty to apply erm . |
| 23 | Or the prosecution might inform the jury that ‘ Miss R … was single and having regular sexual relations with her boyfriend ’ ’ . |
| 24 | Or conversely , a political system in which a monarch or an aristocracy formally ruled might disguise the fact that real power was in the hands of the people . |
| 25 | In a perceptive question , one of our committee members , Russell Mulford , asked whether the scheme was a bad thing for Shropshire — because it might attract the funding that could otherwise be used to electrify the Wolverhampton — Shrewsbury line — or a good thing — because of the boost it will give to rail travel generally . |
| 26 | Joshua 6 ends with a curse pronounced over the charred corpses of the city 's inhabitants , promising anyone who might rebuild the city that he will do so at the cost of the lives of his own children . |
| 27 | For example , one might observe the fact that nearly all the world 's languages have the three basic sentence-types : imperative , interrogative and declarative ( Sadock & Zwicky , in press ) . |
| 28 | If the police can show that they have issued a warning , it might seem the defence that the actor 's conduct was not ‘ wilful ’ will hardly ever avail . |
| 29 | Nor do I want him to become blase about the violence many of these packages feature — he might get the notion that beating up people in real life is no big thing . |
| 30 | Game and Games — you might get the impression that this is a shop where you could buy either a brace of grouse or a set of Monopoly . |