Example sentences of "might [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One purpose of the summer exhibition is to give Renzo Piano and his team scope to experiment with a number of changes , which might eventually become permanent . |
| 2 | There was some optimism that experiments with direct transmission to receivers via satellites might eventually provide great opportunities for countries like Tanzania , which had a scattered population . |
| 3 | If Barry Brittlebank ( 22nd January ) were to study a foreign language , he might perhaps become aware of the existence of the subjunctive mood . |
| 4 | It 's perhaps the one time you 'll bless starting with a completely clean slate ; at least there are no existing possessions that might perhaps prove difficult to accommodate . |
| 5 | I got to my feet and helped them , and Nell with teasing amusement watched me fold pink napkins into water lilies and said , ‘ Well , well , hidden depths , ’ and I answered , ‘ You should see my dishwashing , ’ which were the sort of infantile surface remarks of something we both guessed might suddenly become serious . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems as if it has become fashionable to suggest that Manchester United might suddenly become nervous . |
| 7 | Or you might only need occasional access when you ca n't guarantee being near a PC with a LAN card . |
| 8 | ‘ They might only say important things . ’ |
| 9 | A stupendous cinema epic , reduced to a sort of frantic scurrying in a goldfish bowl , might merely seem ridiculous . |
| 10 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 11 | Hugh Gibson , managing director said , ‘ This gives every employee an opportunity to speak out when they might normally keep quiet . |
| 12 | For people with long-standing difficult social circumstances that may throw up a crisis at any time , intervention might best combine practical help with a scheme to foster the person 's sense of control over his or her life , to reduce their sense of hopelessness . |
| 13 | I wrote the above lines several years ago about a site which I visit regularly as an indication of the sort of way in which we might best approach sacred sites in the landscape . |
| 14 | The decision to cut the federal funds rate — the level at which banks borrow from each other overnight — from 4 to 33/4 p.c. is a far cry from market concerns of a few weeks ago that the Fed might soon tighten monetary policy . |
| 15 | Gaitskell also reminded the cabinet that Britain might soon require American economic help if there were a balance of payments crisis . |
| 16 | Intestinal NaCl absorption is also stimulated by respiratory acidosis and by exposure to volatile fatty acids , interventions which lower pH i and might thus activate apical membrane Na + /H + exchange via an intracellular H + sensitive modifier site . |
| 17 | A sceptic at the RHA might thus have good reason to believe that aside from development of hospital units either in teaching hospitals or in other hospitals having a subaltern relation to them through training arrangements , not much else would happen to achieve the aims of the government 's priority services strategy . |
| 18 | He might just sit tight inside the castle . |
| 19 | Looking back on it today , however , I perceive how dated it is ; but , in the 1930s it might just have excited interest , simply as illustrating one direction in which a Marxian might , in his disillusionment , turn . |
| 20 | Oh , and do n't tell him your war stories because they might just seem trivial to him . ’ |
| 21 | Firstly , chemical carcinogens in tobacco smoke might directly induce cervical carcinogenesis . |
| 22 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 23 | She 'd decided to go along with the FBI for a laugh , and because it might possibly help British Intelligence . |
| 24 | Governments caring sufficiently about redistribution might still prefer inefficient allocations with greater vertical equity . |
| 25 | Then her hands would grow hot and she would pause , wipe them with a moist cloth so that she should not smear the finespun white cotton thread as she worked , and her thoughts of Tommaso would return ; they were very sweet to her , often enough , though when her daydreaming grew extravagant she would fall again into hopelessness , and fear that none of it might ever come true . |
| 26 | Sending Ælfgifu and Swegen to Norway perhaps had its advantages here , and maybe Harold Harefoot was not allowed to live at court , which might partly explain alleged doubts about his identity . |
| 27 | It might also possess social representations of ‘ mercy ’ . |
| 28 | Those same borders might also contain Inula magnifica , Strantia maxima and Campanula lactiflora from the Caucasus , Euphorbia griffithii , Polygonum amplexicaule and Morina longifolia from South Africa and Alstroemeria ligtu from Chile ; the possibilities are endless . |
| 29 | Such a religion might also contain certain philosophical ideas , ideas which could be deduced from a priori reason . |
| 30 | International financial markets experienced a period of considerable turbulence in the autumn of 1991 , as uncertainties grew about the sustainability of the recovery in the United States economy , and as fears were expressed that the German economy might also face intractable difficulties in meeting the costs of unification . |