Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | A landowner could have his monument protected if he wished but he might prefer to maltreat it or destroy it completely . |
| 2 | Mindful of the totality of the picture and not just the technology or work-flow elements , one might prefer to call it postmodernist , in order to index the contrast with Weber 's modernist representation . |
| 3 | Tried to cross the nighted ferry ; might 've made it but for a district-nurse calling unexpectedly . ’ |
| 4 | Do you wan na taste it to check cos I might 've got it wrong ? |
| 5 | I thought you might want to see it . ’ |
| 6 | When the next version arrives , you might want to install it in a separate subdirectory ( in case it has a hidden bug ) and keep the old version for a few months . |
| 7 | Jean would probably like a sewing-room-cum-spare-room , and might want to redecorate it completely . |
| 8 | John Hancock , executive design engineer for the Engines Group division of Cosworth , said the engine received a lot of attention at the show in Detroit : ‘ We 've talked to a wide range of people who might want to use it , or derivatives of it , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Who might want to lead it ? |
| 10 | The more the eyes of Canada and Australia and England were directed to the train , the more Filmer might want to discredit it . |
| 11 | This board can be purchased from the EE PCB Service code EE792 ) , but you might want to make it yourself ! |
| 12 | And you might want to think it , if you 're using this thing properly , the blackmail value of what 's in this binder , may be worth more than , you know , getting it back . |
| 13 | Someone might want to steal it . " |
| 14 | Leslie thrust it into my hand , thinking that I might want to keep it — surely a prophetic gesture . |
| 15 | So if Hereward did turn up one who would threaten his inheritance , he might want to keep it , and Hereward , quiet . ’ |
| 16 | I spend my life in supermarkets — buying food I 'll probably never eat , but buy just in case I might want to eat it . |
| 17 | Clearly , managers with good information about the firm will want to transmit that information to the market , while managers with bad information might want to conceal it and might also be tempted to transmit false ‘ good ’ information to the market . |
| 18 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 19 | A a as you and various other people likely said erm a lot of people regarded it as a kind of act of erm racial er disloyalty I 'm not bothered about what race I am , I 'm just bothered about the truth , and the truth is that I think erm Moses was not Jewish well who 's to know , who 's to know erm as I said it 's a fascinating book and if , if you like that kind of detective story approach to history , you , you might , you might enjoy reading it , erm there are , i it raises a lot of other issues , many of which I 'll talk about in the , in the lectures , so I , I wo n't waste time say repeating it all here . |
| 20 | I had purposely left it unwashed , stuffing it in a suitcase because I might need to spread it out on my bridegroom 's bed in the dark of night . |
| 21 | Only you can answer this and you might need to talk it over with a close friend if you want to get to the heart of your feelings on the matter . |
| 22 | Agreeing with other councillors that someone might be able to find a use for such items , especially now that cast iron baths are now in fashion , the chairman wondered if someone might consider using it for horses . |
| 23 | If I started on a catalogue of what is going wrong with the world , let alone what we might do to put it right , there would be no end . |
| 24 | It should be that Richard does it , though he might choose to delegate it . |
| 25 | Of course , if they did n't recognise the consequences , they might choose to do it , but this illustrates Kant 's point . |
| 26 | But I think we 'll update not so much is over public authorities would probably take your advice , but I 'm thinking of people who are not public authorities who might in a way suffer , that your advice may cause them some expense , and they might choose to delay it , and well I am guilty we ca n't afford to do that this year , so it never gets done . |
| 27 | " I 've never seen her crying over her lot , Luke my lad — whatever we might choose to call it . |
| 28 | Since this affected the ruling family , no-one might dare oppose it . |
| 29 | We were ecstatic as we returned to Bira with the good news , but a closer look at the grounded Sinar Surya and the motley bunch with whom we might sail made it clear that our troubles were far from over . |
| 30 | It is true of course that the device could potentially backfire : having equipped this Tribunal with so much power , it might begin to use it and impose demands on the executive which exceed those which the courts would demand . |