Example sentences of "might [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC 's input into the product will be in the fields of usability , multi-media and document management , but the company is also considering how X.desktop might relate more closely to its other desktop platform , Microsoft Windows and NT . |
| 2 | He might remain up here indefinitely without anyone noticing his feeble signals ! |
| 3 | One day they might slow right down and start to fall back again — like a stone thrown into the air — it slows down , pauses for a moment , and then falls back again . |
| 4 | Scientists at the Medical Research Council ( MRC ) reported that a link might exist as long ago as 1968 . |
| 5 | The things that work — harvest festivals , Armistice Sunday , pancakes on Shrove Tuesday , all the details about who sits where at weddings and how you do that kind of thing — things which I suppose the more strictly religious people might regard as rather to one side of the central questions . |
| 6 | In South Africa , you might think just about everyone owns a Rottweiler — especially if you read the small ads in the papers , where owners lament their loss and sign themselves ‘ Devastated Rotty Lover ’ . |
| 7 | And you might think well where are we going to put the scale ? |
| 8 | If Mum thought I was scruffy , Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben might think so too . |
| 9 | But just in case they do n't , we 've been busy cooking up campaigns that even Tory Central Office and Labour HQ might think twice about . |
| 10 | He might behave more impulsively though I could be mistaken . |
| 11 | We fought for them to come to the Assembly , where they could speak their minds and meet the Africans they never meet , and together listen to the Almighty Who might know better even than they what is best for the country . |
| 12 | I am thinking here of topics which still reflect our interests but might include more on , say , conservation , microscopy , taxonomic computing , and other new areas we might be moving towards . |
| 13 | This conveyed almost the speaking tone of the writer , as he might glance up impishly from one of his colloquies with the carpet . |
| 14 | A more complex syntactic component might need both more grammatical information and more time to make a decision . |
| 15 | Mr Godfray also suggested that the constructive approach would be to stress to MPs the importance of books in education and training — two of the government 's pet issues — rather than concentrating on an anti-VAT message , which might fall on rather deafer ears . |
| 16 | I 'm just afraid he might fall over again and hurt himself . ’ |
| 17 | However , on the medical practice side okay they feel that may be somebody with you background might suit there better . |
| 18 | I shall examine this question in more detail in the chapters in Part 3 , but meanwhile we might consider briefly how different approaches to language pedagogy in general can be characterized in reference to this question . |
| 19 | Upon this ground alone I venture to think that your Lordship 's House might consider very seriously whether you are justified in passing this Bill into Law … |
| 20 | It was the path from my cottage , and I remembered the little cove called Halfway House , a cove where in any weather a boat might tie up safely and its owner make his way round to Taigh na Tuir . |
| 21 | Stavov supports Van Laue argues that the only way Russia might advance fast enough to avoid the disaster of inevitable global conflict was through a ‘ totalitarian planned economy ’ . |
| 22 | Even here a word of caution is necessary , for although medieval writers employed the Roman calendar they sometimes reckoned the Kalend , None and Ide elements in reverse order ; so that , for example , 14 January might appear not as XIX Kal Feb but as Pridi Kal Feb ( prima die kalendarum Feb ) . |
| 23 | The meeting heard outline proposals by President Mikhail Gorbachev for a new union treaty , which would transform the Soviet Union into a " union of sovereign states " in which some republics might continue to give up many powers to the centre , as in the current federal structure , while others might give up virtually none , as in a confederation . |
| 24 | Afraid she might give in quickly and completely if she stayed here any longer , she made a dash for the door . |
| 25 | But even in such an unfavourable atmosphere , a work like Wagner 's Lohengrin ( first produced in 1850 ) might succeed in momentarily startling the more sensitive members of the public into a true response . |
| 26 | One of the tarts might do later on but not to settle him in . |
| 27 | If determination and persistence guarantee results , that is another typical Strudwick statement ‘ the guys up North ’ might do well not to ignore . |
| 28 | " You might do well enough , but I would n't . |
| 29 | The British sales rep might do even better out of this system than the current one — and grandees would do worse . |
| 30 | I mean th they , they might do n't necessarily see why it 's improving and what 's behind it , but their lot must improve if there 's industrialization and weapons and things to be made , that they they have jobs and presumably have more money than they had before when they were just sort of not doing very much . |