Example sentences of "and [noun] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mum thought I was scruffy , Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben might think so too . |
| 2 | The Home Office guidelines on the work of a Special Branch are published in the Select Committee Report of 1985 , from which it will be seen how protest by individuals and groups might bring them to Special Branch attention : |
| 3 | While some landowners such as the Staffords , Herberts and Seymours might have been conspicuously successful in exploiting their estates , others , including the king and many monasteries , were far less so . |
| 4 | Each meeting-point was timed with as much leeway as moon and tide might allow — say an hour on occasions , although many submarine captains took bold risks in staying offshore beyond the agreed times when no recovery had been made , just in case the canoeists were late . |
| 5 | But Rain and Shildon might have been alone , there was no one to see or overhear them . |
| 6 | For the local researcher , the implication is that the surviving field monuments of the prehistoric period are only a part , perhaps a small part , of the contemporary Neolithic and Bronze Age landscape , and that local topographical changes of soils , relief , and sedimentation might have buried or removed other more important parts of such settlement evidence . |
| 7 | That is to say , if creativity and psychosis are found to be connected then this is more likely to be revealed , not as a function of the psychotic state itself , but in more subtle ways — for example , through certain modes or forms of thinking and perception which the tendencies to psychosis and creativity might prove to have in common . |
| 8 | If at least some people and states obey some laws for other reasons , such as moral conviction or non-coerced self-interest , then it is possible that all persons and states might do so . |
| 9 | One might compare the difficulty with that of trying to write rules for how one might indicate to someone of the opposite sex that one finds them attractive ; while psychologists and biologists might make detailed observations and generalisations about how human beings of a particular culture behave in such a situation , most people would rightly feel that studying these generalisations would be no substitute for practical experience , and that relying on a text-book could lead to hilarious consequences . |
| 10 | She was so obviously upset by the break-up that I asked her out to lunch to cheer her up , and I asked her home because I thought my mother and sister might help her . |
| 11 | Jazz was okay and Gary might do , but Bean and Hoomey ! |
| 12 | The committee remained convinced that largely unintentional racism was an important factor behind West Indian underachievement , a claim not undermined by the high achievement of Asians , since stereotyped views of them were generally much less negative , and racism might have different effects on different groups . |
| 13 | There were also reasons why tension between France and Germany might decline in the early eighties . |
| 14 | The shortage of regular staff is exacerbated and employers might begin to find that they are filling permanent positions on a temporary basis . |
| 15 | The Senate President , Jovito Salonga , warned that " we will further divide the nation and blood might flow " if the US forces stayed on . |
| 16 | The material available must pose a significant challenge to pupils ; for example , poetry should not be confined to verse written for children ; folk tales and fables might include translations from original sources . |
| 17 | If it had been in charge from the outset , its architects and liturgists might have devised more dignified surroundings and procedures than those that now prevail . |
| 18 | When she married Darren , 28 , doctors told her that the side effects of drugs and radiotherapy might make it difficult to conceive . |
| 19 | A further strike could be a different situation because it will be a normal weekday and drivers might get a false sense of security . |
| 20 | Someone with imagination and funds might wish to recreate the villa to Soane 's original designs . |
| 21 | They were far more concerned about how politicians and journalists might misuse their data , either through ignorance or to further their own ends . |
| 22 | And Tristram might have sent it to Beatrix when he realized he was dying . |
| 23 | ‘ The press made a lot of people afraid of the movie , ’ says Dickerson , ‘ and Paramount might have tried to counteract that . ’ |
| 24 | Occasionally Princess Margaret 's son , Viscount Linley , and the Princes Andrew and Edward might come to play for the afternoon but there certainly were n't the comings and goings many have assumed . |
| 25 | By creating a mode of Repertory Grid Technique specific to visual art and making it available through the personal computer , this area full of complexity and uncertainty might come to be both better understood and more widely valued . |
| 26 | With memories of the student ‘ unrest ’ of the late sixties still part of the living past , Sir Keith Joseph was able to impose a stern monetary discipline upon British higher education with the prospect , many feared , that some universities and polytechnics might disappear entirely . |
| 27 | Johnson , contradicting him , took him from the particular belief to the general likelihood : from the possibility of a singular holy place to the generic derivation from water : ‘ Had it been an accidental name , the similarity between it and Anaitis might have had something in it ; but it turns out to be a mere physiological name . ’ |
| 28 | A death-bed repentance and confession might gain him entrance into heaven ; it might save his soul , but it could not save his reputation after a lifetime of dishonour . |
| 29 | Roman Catholic bishops and clan chieftains would even up the balance , and Ireland might boast a Second Chamber that would be the envy of England and the world . |
| 30 | While both radicals and conservatives might agree about most of the categories , they may well disagree about what is or is not " developmental " . |