Example sentences of "might [verb] [verb] from " in BNC.
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1 | Now one of the things you might 've seen from the corporate briefings is you 've got the budget figure and a forecast figure . |
2 | Mr Baker strongly criticised a call from Mr Ashdown for up to 4.5 million Hong Kong Chinese who might want to flee from a Communist regime after 1997 to be given the right to come to Britain . |
3 | This is exactly the kind of picture which we might want to save from a screen paintbrush job ; lovely blends of colour , subtle shades and shapes , and not a straight line anywhere . |
4 | Other topics might include moving from practice into industry , part-time working or going back to work full time while caring for a young family . |
5 | The innovation was that management arranged these various jobs in such a way that an individual might expect to progress from one to another if their performance merited it . |
6 | ‘ She telephoned this morning to say I might expect to hear from you . |
7 | It was thought that their former colleagues might like to hear from the University , particularly if some improvement in the alumni services available to those who studied at Stirling years ago could be made both useful and attractive . |
8 | ‘ Will you be all right ? ’ asked Rachel dubiously , worried that Belinda might try to climb from the horse when the carousel was in motion , or , even worse , that she might slip from its back . |
9 | Erm , and the introduction of these forms of individuals erm might have arisen as the one passage that showed us might suggest , the passage from five seven on page three of her handout number eleven there , the need for forms of individuals might have arisen from the following . |
10 | Only one thing was clear ; his anxiety about how much I might have heard from Mitford and Leverrier was now explained . |
11 | The William and Mary declaration being 1688 , it suggests that such a lease might have run from that date , but it could have been earlier , in which case such an arrangement would have been almost certainly ultra vires . |
12 | The dummies in the windows wore clothes so unlike Helen 's that they might have stepped from some other culture : rainbow colours , fabrics of wondrous texture and design , skirts like puffballs or split like a dancer 's . |
13 | A Martian arriving in Britain in late 1992 might have gathered from window-stickers along the high streets that mortgages were cheap and plentiful . |
14 | Yet any influence that might have radiated from the Capital appears to have had little effect upon these northern fells . |
15 | Their ‘ look ’ changes almost imperceptibly ; between 1975 and 1985 for instance , a major style point can be seen in the daywear of the young ( 24-year-old ) yah female : in 1975 her swanlike neck might have risen from the neat collar of a Jaeger shirt with single strand of pearls and a scarf tied as cravat in attendance . |
16 | Actually the Voice is Gandalf 's , as we might have guessed from its asperity , and as is anyway confirmed at II , 99 : it may seem fair enough to let a wizard oppose a necromancer . |
17 | In the Prose Edda , for instance , Aurvandill is a companion of the god Thórr , who loses a toe to frostbite only to have it thrown into the sky to become a star ; as one might have guessed from Christ , ‘ Earendel ’ is the old name of a star or planet . |
18 | Many of the amino acids are coded by more than one triplet ( as you might have guessed from the fact that there are 64 triplets and only 20 amino acids ) . |
19 | The service of the pastor was exemplified in Christ 's washing of his disciples ' feet , and so , whatever little present he might have received from another bishop , back went a towel from a seemingly inexhaustible linen cupboard . |
20 | Those future profits include grants that he might have received from the government for installing drains ( these can cover up to 80 per cent of the cost of the scheme ) and the value of anticipated production , which may be doubled by subsidies under the EEC 's Common Agricultural Policy . |
21 | Late on , County replaced the striker Gary McDonald with Mark Howard , who might have scored from his first kick , shooting wide five yards out at the far post . |
22 | This might have stemmed from inadequate foundations , but what evidence there is suggests otherwise . |
23 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
24 | Even mankind might have developed from a different species . |
25 | Repairs to the existing masonry were carried out in matching brickwork and the purpose-made joinery of new windows and external doors has been retained in its natural colour under a clear sealant , rather than being painted , which might have detracted from the mellow textures of the renovated building ( Plate 51 ) . |
26 | While he clearly believed what he was saying , and while his image might have faded from the general consciousness , Vitor d'Arcos was too commanding , too vital , too much the male sexual animal to ever be considered ordinary . |
27 | It has a charming , white stuccoed wiggly gable , two windows wide , that might have come from Amsterdam with the King 's guns . |
28 | This might have come from a WEA rally . |
29 | That herd was apparently shy , rather fierce and polled and it is possible that the Ardrossan was ancestral to the White Galloway , or its coat colour might have come from the other White Park herds in Scotland ( for example at Cadzow Forest near Hamilton , Blair Atholl in northern Perthshire , the Duke of Buccleuch 's estate at Dalkeith , the Cumbernauld estate or Cally Palace at Gatehouse-of-Fleet ) . |
30 | He had a lean face and dark eyes that might have come from either his Gaelic or Jewish ancestry . |