Example sentences of "might [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | for systems which are already operating the ergonomist is likely to cooperate with occupational health and safety specialists and to play a part in the consideration of accidents and occupational diseases which might arise from unnecessarily stressful work situations ( p. 294 ) . |
| 2 | She heard the sound of his footsteps upstairs , and then the more distant noise of the shower being turned on , and she resolutely shut her mind to any wayward thoughts that might arise from there . |
| 3 | He began to seek further alignments which might relate to far more subtle astronomical changes — and found them . |
| 4 | Even the good ones might remain for only a matter of months . |
| 5 | And it 's something you might think about as well , sitting at home , do you think you 're going to need care in due course , and if so , where 's it going to come from ? |
| 6 | Others are more fixed and allow little room for adjustment , and these we might think of as more lexical in character . |
| 7 | Now in order to move yourself forward you might need to go to excess , you might need at least to tolerate excesses . |
| 8 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 9 | Although , in terms of volume or profitability , such discoveries can not hope to make up for the fading glory of the state 's North Slope field , daily Alaskan production might fall by only a few hundred thousand barrels over the next decade , rather than dwindling away , as some had suggested . |
| 10 | And once one child in the street is offered a place , other parents naturally feel under some pressure to put their children into school too , for fear that they might fall behind educationally . |
| 11 | The new government quickly showed its enthusiasm for the private medical sector which was growing rapidly in 1979 , and in 1980 Gerard Vaughan , Minister of Health , expressed the belief that it might grow to around one quarter of the size of the NHS . |
| 12 | This interpretation was supported by the fact that a committee which might consist of only a few members could not , however honest and conscientious , assess impartially the value of its work or that of its individual members . |
| 13 | This , they say , might result in completely new directions for device technology including epitaxial superconducting interconnects , junctions and switches . |
| 14 | However , there were other reasons such as ‘ lost documentation ’ and small balances written off , all of which comprised the annual figure , the disclosure of which might result in too much attention being given to his department . |
| 15 | Although the outlook may seem bleak , a constructive approach towards consultation might result in hitherto unconsidered options coming to light which could enable your job to be saved at the eleventh hour . |
| 16 | Alain Prost has expressed considerable concern that FISA 's strict new rules on driver discipline might result in ostensibly innocent racing manoeuvres attracting draconian penalties during the 1991 world championship season . |
| 17 | The finding suggests that vaccination against the virus might prevent at least some cases of Hodgkin 's disease , which attacks 1500 Britons yearly ( The Lancet , vol 337 , p 320 ) . |
| 18 | cos I might look through there for a job you see . |
| 19 | I suppose your standard Manhattan faggot might look in here for a final white wine en route to a dungeon appointment or death-pact rendezvous at the Water Closet or the Mother Load . |
| 20 | it might freeze under there . |
| 21 | Indeed , one might hope for still more in the way of functional explanation much of the syntactic machinery of a language seems to be concerned with the linear re-organization of material in sentences ( as in passive or topicalized constructions ) , a re-organization which does not seem substantially to affect the ( truth-conditional ) semantic content . |
| 22 | Then he or she might move to outside the home , taking unorganized ones before organized ones , and then conclude with commercial leisure . |
| 23 | It may well have been fun while it lasted , but we might guess by now that the Titfords would not stay long in Spa Fields , any more than they had anywhere else . |
| 24 | Let me with some humility , therefore , describe the manner in which I and my colleagues have sought to try and create our own dream of where our company might fit into tomorrow 's world , and how this process of marrying the vision from the top with the visions from below has been carried out within ICI . |
| 25 | Nor as yet , to Lexandro 's regret , the holy Reclusiam , home of the chapter 's most sacred relics and trophies ; only initiates might step in there . |
| 26 | That statesman , in 1732 , persuaded the Commons to consider abandoning its regular Saturday sittings , so that he ‘ might secure at least one day 's hunting a week ’ . |
| 27 | You have n't made up your mind yet , see how you feel you might decide to just , you 've got to hump through it all |
| 28 | For instance , you might decide to really need some time to yourself . |
| 29 | The multiple-scenario forecast is considerably more useful than the broad band of uncertainty which declares that anything might happen between widely separate best and worst cases . |
| 30 | Pregnant or lactating women , and children , might wish to either include more milk , or , to add to the variety , use yogurt frequently in cooking , or have it as a dessert , or have some cheese occasionally as well as milk . |