Example sentences of "might [verb] [noun pl] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unaccompanied children admitted , but parents/guardians are advised that the film contains material they might prefer children under 12 not to see . |
| 2 | Those shuriken stars could slice through armour and carapace and bone and might cripple Scouts yet would not inevitably kill a superhuman body . |
| 3 | The group might knock heads together but it does n't seem designed to do the equally important job of explaining what is happening to staff and patients . |
| 4 | This bargaining process is likely to take place in secluded agencies where the state and societal elites can work out deals , sheltered from any formalized and universally applicable legislation which might make bargains too difficult to achieve . |
| 5 | In fact , we already thought that sex might fit into this category : it is likely to be associated with status ( women tend to do lower status jobs ) and absenteeism ( domestic commitments might make women more absence-prone than men ) . |
| 6 | " Patrick was also worried that his mother might send men here , because she knows that this is the only place Patrick could run to . " |
| 7 | ‘ You might see things differently from down there . ’ |
| 8 | Second , defendants might defend cases more vigorously , causing greater trauma to child witnesses , if substantial imprisonment is probable . |
| 9 | Erm I , I think again it 's , it 's probably the , the feeling of wearing it in , in confined spaces that might upset women more than it does erm men I do n't know . |
| 10 | Even with such ‘ conventional , crimes , however , different people might interpret events differently , and there might be a degree of under-reporting because of this . |
| 11 | I am sure you will win her over with patience , but it might take weeks rather than hours or days . |
| 12 | In order to describe the sequence , we need only turn to the lectures which Eliot gave during and just after its composition : here he talked almost coyly of a poem which might develop themes instrumentally and arrange transitions " comparable to the different movements of a symphony or a quartet " , of a poem elaborate enough to exercise the dramatic , descriptive and narrative talents of its maker . |
| 13 | I thought I might have problems here , because the inside mitre on the four outer glazing bars created a slight undercut for assembling the curved outer members in the horizontal plane , but I found that by locating the curved members on the bottom rail first , then swinging the tops in on a slight curve , they just clicked into place nicely . |
| 14 | I accept of course that the police officers investigating on behalf of the Hampshire Constabulary , whose rank I do not know , and the Principal Crown Prosecutor thought they had seized sufficient documents or might acquire others independently . |
| 15 | As library users have found to their cost , the shelf that held the books marked 636.7 last week might hold books quite differently numbered today , as the stock grows and books move along , and yet the position of a subject 's bookstock can rapidly be found once the all.important subject number is identified from the index . |
| 16 | Waiting behind a stream of cars for the railway crossing barriers to be opened the countryside might seem miles away . |
| 17 | They might pick flowers together . |
| 18 | I felt the most awful failure , and thought that perhaps if we could try again — since the thing was done , the point of no return passed — we might arrange things better , somehow recapture the basis of feeling we had had , which should have been a perfect foundation for a love-affair , but which we had somehow bungled and thrown away . |
| 19 | In the past , Scotland 's architects might find commissions close to home — such as England . |
| 20 | And if the Soviet leader kept silent in Peking in May , as hundreds of thousands shouted his name during the demonstrations at Tiananmen , he seems the more likely to say nothing which might inflame passions so comparatively close to home . |
| 21 | A public fuss about sovereignty , the government reckons , might inflame feelings even more and touch off really ugly incidents , maybe bloodshed , in an area already smarting from the harsher side of unity , collapsing firms and soaring unemployment . |
| 22 | Scotland might order things differently , but in England the rule was that what was not prohibited was permitted and the debate on civil rights was therefore concerned with the balance between the acceptable limits imposed by law and the freedom of action of the individual . |