Example sentences of "might [adv] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with , however , the moment of opportunity that was presented in Vietnam by France 's defeat in 1940 was taken by the Japanese ; and although Ho might conceivably and eventually have been right in his optimistic assertion that ‘ if the entire people were united and single minded they would certainly be able to smash the picked French and Japanese armies ’ , the vicissitudes of war and politics would ensure that , for a while at least , they would not be required for such a formidable task . |
| 2 | It would appear from Donoghue v. Stevenson and Australian Knitting Mills Ltd. v. Grant [ 1936 ] A.C. 85 that it would be immaterial whether at the time of fault the victim was in existence or not , so long as the victim was a member of a class which might reasonably and probably be affected by the act of carelessness . |
| 3 | After all , if we want a representative sample of university students we may already know how they are distributed between departments or faculties and random methods , being based on chance , might now and then produce samples heavily biased towards one faculty . |
| 4 | On the other hand , if he had bought the land with notice , we might well and rationally say de se queri debet . |
| 5 | For while it was happy for the advisory team to devise policies which went into considerable detail about aspects of classroom practice which are surely for schools and teachers to determine , it remained relatively aloof from one area of school life — home-school links-where policy might usefully and helpfully have stipulated not just goals and commitments but also a range of procedures from which schools could choose . |
| 6 | At the same time habit , and the realization that funding for the services would be tightly controlled ( if on a more generous scale than in the early 1930s ) , meant that the eastern Atlantic , the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean were still seen as regions which might primarily and appropriately be left to the British . |