Example sentences of "[noun sg] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaucer uses this opportunity to present two quite contrasting tales , Sir Thopas and Melibee , the one a tail-rhyme romance , the other a moral example in prose ; two tales which in turn represent quite contrasting aspects of the one narratorial character , being two quite contrasting versions of what type of tale an audience or readership might think Chaucer " ought " to tell . |
| 2 | All too easily they feared , a recce might leave traces of the visit which , even if the lone navigator was not captured , could give away the intended landing point for an assault force . |
| 3 | One person informed us that he lost four and a half stone doing jury service : we considered sending on his letter to weight-watchers , so that the future courtroom might feature twelve fat men and true . |
| 4 | He wondered what hideous deformity might lie beneath the silken cloak and the deep dark hood . |
| 5 | Yet portions cling to the style of days gone by , when a salt beef sandwich might have been the single meal of the day . |
| 6 | So great and rapid is the devastation that some have feared that the entire reef might disappear — even though it contains 3000 separate coral islands , stretched 2000 km along the Queensland coast , and covering an area the size of Great Britain . |
| 7 | Jen might think she 's a bit tarty but she plays a tarty bit in it does n't she ? |
| 8 | A reasonable reply might be that sociologists are interested in those aspects of human behaviour that are the result of the social context in which we live . |
| 9 | Without a word , Jane turned and fled into the sitting room , leaving Patrick alone on the stairs , wondering what her reply might have been . |
| 10 | A reply might be that surely I am inferring that I see a sheep in the field from my knowledge of my own present sensory states . |
| 11 | What reply might be given to all this ? |
| 12 | The rubric will include data on which a reply might be based and an indication of the tone required . |
| 13 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 14 | in whom the power to discontinue any criminal proceedings at any stage before judgment is delivered is vested by section 94(3) ( c ) of the Constitution of Jamaica , considered that the plea of guilty to manslaughter should not have been accepted and decided to discontinue the proceedings in this case in order that the defendant might be charged with the murder on a fresh indictment . |
| 15 | But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone , a defendant might escape punishment altogether . |
| 16 | The plaintiff is playing with higher stakes because the cost penalty is likely to be bigger than the amount by which the defendant might overestimate the claim . |
| 17 | The fact that the defendant might not himself have called the state of affairs an obstruction is , to my mind , immaterial . |
| 18 | First , the defendant might argue that he believed in the victim 's consent since she permitted penetration although he knew full well that she had no understanding of the act . |
| 19 | Are we to assume that the defendant might by some slip in pleading , have failed in his defence to that action , if it had proceeded ? |
| 20 | This can be the keystone of the defence as well , although the defendant might be prepared to accept the plaintiff 's evidence if it contains nothing controversial . |
| 21 | But , before Robert had the chance to ask him about the Golden Calf of the Druze , or what a Nizari Ismaili might be , or how many of either group might be lurking around Wimbledon , the bell sounded for the end of break , and , below them , in the Great Hall , he heard the sounds of the whole school assembling for nature , recreation and Islamic dancing . |
| 22 | On the other hand , excitation within a band concerned mainly with the ligand might result in enhancement of the intensity of internal ligand vibrations of the resonance Raman spectrum ( Fig. 6.30 ) . |
| 23 | Results from the Loch Ness and Morar project suggest that the loch might indeed harbour a large predator |
| 24 | The back-row confrontation might just go the way of Bath with Dave Egerton , Ben Clarke and Andy Robinson looking a superior combination — on paper at least — although Peter Winterbottom , in particular , will want to prove me wrong . |
| 25 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 26 | The recipient might become worried if successive letters then come threatening that action will be taken to obtain the price from him . |
| 27 | The distinction between the two at this level , however , does not have as much meaning as such labelling might suggest , for there are many species that can use both methods of feeding at different times . |
| 28 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 29 | Perhaps I mean it 's , we do n't know in nineteen , October nineteen forty seven whether the Communist Party actually really did think that absolute egalitarianism might be able to work . |
| 30 | Still , he thought , Holly would no doubt think twice before following them into a place like that , and to keep beside the brook might well prove safer than wandering about the fields in one direction and another , with the risk of finding themselves , in the end , back at the warren . |