Example sentences of "might [verb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dwarfs are a bit slow so you might prefer a more steady advance with more war machines to pound the stunties before you go in . |
| 2 | I would like to suggest , however , that you might tread a little more carefully in certain places . ’ |
| 3 | But that would be a kind of failure , having summoned up the courage to go this far , to take this step ; and though he had warned her that it might hurt a little , she trusted him : he was so gentle , so mature . |
| 4 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 5 | Even an A-level student might want a little more in the way of interpretation . |
| 6 | If the individual is in fact acting on behalf of the company as an employee then the principle of vicarious liability would mean that the company ( as potentially the wealthier party ) might make a more attractive defendant from the plaintiff 's point of view . |
| 7 | Another selection of work , or even a revised version of this one , might make a more plausible case . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , ’ Kirov snapped , vaguely resenting the implication that he might make a purely social call upon the photographer . |
| 9 | Someone who admits I might know a little more than they do . |
| 10 | In some circumstances one might seek a maximally parallel version of a program , but it is more likely that one will be attempting to optimise it for a particular configuration . |
| 11 | If your horse is strong , you might need a slightly stronger bit or noseband than usual . |
| 12 | They might need a less emotionally demanding environment in which they can recuperate and relax before they are able to tackle relationships again . |
| 13 | The Americans have begun to see Ukraine as an interloper threatening the post-cold-war world order , above all by its reluctance to ratify nuclear-arms treaties , which might unravel the carefully negotiated global web of arms-control accords . |
| 14 | Nevertheless having said that , er I would say that the County Council 's moved as far as it believes it possibly can do to meeting some of the requests of the the district in providing what we consider a generous , and what other people might consider a overly generous allocation of land . |
| 15 | Families of people with a learning disability might welcome a less intense form of case management than that offered to single male schizophrenia sufferers who have a long history of compulsory admission to hospital . |
| 16 | The former might appear a more powerful technique from the point of view of the applicant ; but , comparing it with a ‘ live ’ examination , in which the questioner can frame follow-up questions in terms of the way in which the facts evolve from earlier answers , a United States court has described the framing of questions in advance as ‘ a supreme test of the questioning lawyer 's powers of prescience ’ . |
| 17 | The reason why Hope should advocate Scott in particular , when a limited competition might give the ecclesiologically sounder Street the work , may have been that Scott was more likely to carry out the work successfully . |
| 18 | You might feel a little guilty about taking someone else 's cherries , but you might also take one or two from the side and hope that the rightful owner would n't notice . |
| 19 | If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches . |
| 20 | In your letter dated Tue , 18 Jan 94 10:25:54 MET , you wrote : If I thought Wilko was going there with the intent to win I might feel a little happier , but with the form as it is I think we 'll wind up in one of those boring 1–0 or 2–0 defeats where nothing exciting happens in the game . |
| 21 | The symbolic function of the different styles present in the built environment which is the context for everyday action suggest that they might fuel an apparently active and sustained debate between suburban individualism and inner city communalism . |
| 22 | The whole question was given a fresh airing in the March issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics , and if ethical considerations prove indecisive perhaps legal pressures might exert an untypically beneficial influence in persuading all doctors to give their patients the best professional counsel . |
| 23 | But Joyce , his creator , is watching him as one of his own timorous school boys might watch a particularly daring companion , admiring , fearful , disapproving , conscious of unresolved guilt , above all divided . |
| 24 | Local health authorities were to provide residential accommodation , training , guardianship , mental welfare officers and any other services that might benefit the mentally disordered in the community . |
| 25 | Knock on her door at 3 a.m. for a leg massage and I swear she would get up and do it for you , though she might swear a little under her breath ! |
| 26 | er The overnight low , 7 degrees celsius , 45 fahrenheit , Friday remaining dry , cloud amounts rather variable , and we might see a little hazy sunshine as well , especially in the centre of Oxford , and especially to the east as well . |
| 27 | Where others might see a more complex situation with a conceptual continuum between starvation , hunger , destitution , poverty ( want ) , and inequality , Moore abolishes poverty by dividing it up between the two extremes of the continuum , also at the same time neatly side-stepping discussion of the visible increase in begging , destitution , and homelessness in major British cities . |
| 28 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 29 | But in a few days ’ time it might look a little different . ’ |
| 30 | There will be a lot of cloud again over many parts of England and Wales , although it might become a little brighter at times . |