Example sentences of "[verb] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 2 | Having exhausted all these possibilities , the ordering and challenging might become explicit . |
| 3 | Obviously , much of the information recorded here will be very out of date , but the families of those incriminated might still be powerful , rich , and/or engaged in cultist activities , necromancy , or generally nefarious deeds . |
| 4 | Admittedly , the net pay that could be expected in the carbonates is relatively small , ( perhaps only 10–20 m ) and therefore the potential reserves that could be expected might only be in the order of 10–50 Bcf . |
| 5 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 6 | As a result , there came an increased acceptance of the view that persistent , and unacceptable , inequality and want might be built into the economic system unless the state made key interventions along the lines of the German model . |
| 7 | The idea that the care you provide might be questioned or challenged is an entirely new experience for nurses ‘ trained ’ by traditional methods . |
| 8 | and we can sing them and , feel that we 're doing the right thing and go our way but Lord we pray that the words we sing might be the words that we means , and the words that we say might be the things and the , the way we mean to conduct our lives . |
| 9 | I dare n't sing — people who 've already booked might cancel their Access — and I do n't know which sketch would compress into the thirty-four seconds I 'll undoubtedly be granted . |
| 10 | Since the fire at the premises of the defendants was caused by their employee 's negligence , and since it was reasonably foreseeable that firemen would be required to attend the fire and that an explosion of the kind which occurred might result from the fire , the defendants were liable to the plaintiff . |
| 11 | To write about a place I did not know might seem to be breaking one of the most quoted warnings to the novice author : " Write about what you know " . |
| 12 | Oh yes yeah the skippers , the skippers would go up the town cos every time a ship used to come in they got , they got to take the their papers up to the agent , what the papers were I do n't really know might be a manifest or something like that , what they used to do I mean then you had erm and you had different agents now there 's more agents than ever now . |
| 13 | Among the sites where characteristic evidence for iron extraction or smithing has been located might be included those at Ancaster , Braintree , Camerton , Holditch , Sapperton and Wilderspool . |
| 14 | In particular , the Luxembourg Compromise permitted a state to plead special circumstances in the Council of Ministers ; in other words it would be able to exercise a veto on matters which it believed and claimed might adversely affect its own vital national interests . |
| 15 | Hateley pointed out : ‘ I always felt the league format might help us . |
| 16 | The overall picture , however , was by no means so clearcut as the data so far considered might tend to suggest . |
| 17 | Warm might be a bit of a shock , that 's all . |
| 18 | Their participation hinged on a variety of factors such as personal situation at the time of receiving the response sheet ; feelings of obligation towards the two agencies involved in the sampling ; perception that being interviewed might help them in the future ; boredom with prison life ; and simple curiosity . |
| 19 | Gradually , however , he realized that he could become a detective investigating his own past and that what he gleaned might have a bearing on the present . |
| 20 | The question remains whether an investigator equally committed might not perform much the same myth-detecting operation on any considerable body of writing , say the novels of Dickens , or indeed the works of some quite minor writer . |
| 21 | No one was expecting a gloat , although a spot of bragging might be in order . |
| 22 | Either way , kicking the ref when you have won might be seen as unsporting . |
| 23 | ‘ Rosengarten might not have known much about music , but he knew all about money — he could spend all day haggling over ten schillings . |
| 24 | 16.51 At age 7 , the pupil 's response to the SAT might be mainly but not exclusively oral . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , it is concerned with food , with telephone sales or with insurance , the people to train might be home economists , one of the telephone sales force or the area sales manager . |
| 26 | Permission is here conceived as existing already , even though that which is permitted might be carried out ten years from now , or never . |
| 27 | Wendy had more intelligence than her pleasant calm looks might have led the casual observer to suspect . |
| 28 | Listen carefully to what he has to say about your hair , and the sort of style he thinks might look good on you . |
| 29 | As requested I wrote and asked about self-catering accommodation at the conference and I received a reply saying that there 's one house that erm she 's come across that she thinks might be particularly suitable for us . |
| 30 | A minority which believed itself to be persecuted might well stick together . |