Example sentences of "might [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might fancy it then . |
| 2 | To exclude it from ITV , its competitor for advertising revenue , might weaken it further . |
| 3 | Since this sentence explains the context for what precedes , we might think it more natural to place it ( deprived of the connecting words " And then " ) at the beginning of the paragraph . |
| 4 | But I suppose he might want it just to see what he 's missed . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll be down soon , ’ I said , and rocked to and fro in the bed to make noises which might make it sound as though I was getting up . |
| 6 | More particularly , those who owed their careers and their satisfactions to grammar schools , or were headmasters of them , feared that the progressive elimination of those schools might make it more difficult for the maintained sector to compete effectively with the independent schools . |
| 7 | The applied orientation of 16–19 work might make it more attractive to more students . |
| 8 | But the scale of the buy-outs might make it more difficult to maintain that position . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , is my hon. Friend the Minister not concerned about the growth in size of housing associations , which might make it more difficult to maintain the personal contact with tenants which is an important aspect of good housing management ? |
| 10 | He admitted that the ending of PRT rebates might make it more costly to drill wells confirming the size of the field , but added : ‘ We look at the production side rather than exploration and we also look at how much it costs the Government . ’ |
| 11 | Which might make it more difficult to teach . |
| 12 | might make it better |
| 13 | You might need it later in the same flight ; if it is n't there , you ca n't use it . |
| 14 | We might need it yet to do another bit . |
| 15 | For instance , if we happen to witness the fall from the cliff-top proposed above , there are many other ways in which we might think of the action apart from using the word acrobatic ; we might describe it as athletic , agile , amazing , swift , cat-like , or we might employ any of an indefinitely large number of similes along the lines of with the speed of a gibbon . |
| 16 | Because if it does I might consider it now … ’ |
| 17 | He never does normally but he might do it today . |
| 18 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 19 | If he beat him then , at birth , he might do it again . |
| 20 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 21 | ‘ It crossed my mind that if people wanted to plant a bomb , they might do it somewhere like that to catch people milling around . ’ |
| 22 | I thought he might go , he might do it now and we go for coffee . |
| 23 | Jean has n't much time — and I think I might do it quite well . ’ |
| 24 | She did n't mind that , though sometimes she had a prevision that one day , when he was a rheumy old lion and she a worn-out , weary lioness , she might mind it very much . |
| 25 | Sophisticates might see it differently : thus J. H. Newman , writing in the Tracts for the Times ( no. 85 , 1840 ) when still a member of the Church of England , drew attention to discrepancies and differences of emphasis between various books of the Bible . |
| 26 | They might see it as better to take-over their main supplier , even if it means that company losing some existing orders from competing manufacturers of food products ; * buyers may deliberately seek international suppliers , so as to maintain their choice and retain some degree of control over the prices and terms of supply . |
| 27 | you fill out a little sheet of paper with the , with the names like John A , John B or whatever , so that if there 's another tape and you 've marked John B and they missed a word , or what what the word was and they there 's a chance that they might use it again later on you see . |
| 28 | The very concept of liberation makes sense only if it is viewed against the backdrop of unjust oppression , and while the notion of unjust oppression no doubt assumes many guises , it is incomprehensible to me how we might understand it apart from the idea of the violation of basic moral rights . |
| 29 | Try cooking this ham , do you think they might like it then ? |
| 30 | Or if you leave it with a neighbour then we 've got a calling card to say thought you might like it early |