Example sentences of "[adv] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | But always see your doctor if you are worried , and do not delay in consulting him or her if you think any of the points below might apply to you : |
| 2 | There were also new rules for the periti , who henceforth might give advice only when asked . |
| 3 | But then so might that of the writer of the story , who may be less obedient than the gentile reader immediately recognises . |
| 4 | So might those who choose to take up his well-meaning idea . |
| 5 | Just so might the exhausted arrogance of a dying empire have expressed itself on the lips of a Roman senator waving away the news of a ‘ crackpot messiah ’ among the Jews , and the strange thoughts that occur to people in Jerusalem or Galilee . |
| 6 | Those who sold their diesels after 50,000 miles or so might just as well have bought a petrol vehicle . |
| 7 | They had been ‘ set up ’ for the day by their large breakfast and so might have been more active than those who were hungry during the daytime . |
| 8 | As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 9 | Foods necessarily tend to be of the ‘ convenience ’ type and low in fibre ( ‘ roughage ’ ) , and so might cause constipation later on . |
| 10 | So might the decision to let the republics go it alone on economic reform . |
| 11 | True , she went to bed late , and was often at her desk until four a.m. , and so might have been expected to rise well after midday , and luxuriate over breakfast before beginning her day 's work at one in the afternoon . |
| 12 | They might be , but so might those of any of its fluke rivals . |
| 13 | More often than not , oils chosen this way turn out to be the very ones needed at the time , and as the person 's physical and emotional state alters , so might their aroma preference . |
| 14 | Large mammals too might be warned of the webs , but so might prey . |
| 15 | Those who wish to do so might incorporate a reset switch ( of suitable rating ) in the positive lead between R1 and L1 or in place of the 10A fuse . |
| 16 | So might England manager Graham Taylor , who watched Atkinson reach 13 goals for the season . |
| 17 | But we will suppose that our researcher is cautious in making claims , and so might wish to extend the enquiry and see whether the same results can be replicated with different subjects doing different tasks . |
| 18 | Many teachers were ill prepared to teach language , and so might present the subject in an unenthusiastic manner , so repressing the pupils ' natural interest in language . |
| 19 | Doing so might well have saved them . ’ |
| 20 | Not only is the venue about to change , but so might the whole basis of the competition . |
| 21 | So might the revolution set to take place in the state sector . |
| 22 | In all probability the machine would be replaced once the ‘ laugh ’ was over , and failure to do so might well lead to censure from others in the Rowdies group . |
| 23 | So might smell the den of some great carnivore , thought Jasper , where the floor was stickily carpeted in dried blood and littered with licked bones . |
| 24 | And if this room was real , so might the others have been . |
| 25 | To do so might be to meet a lot of the problems of youth in our society before they become social problems as well . |
| 26 | This does not perhaps leave the section totally without point , in that by directing the board to consider the employees it might expand the cognitive basis of decision making and so might on occasion lead to a superior accommodation of employee interests within the traditional framework of shareholder supremacy . |
| 27 | He decided not to wipe his face , which had started to run in its usual sleepy-fruit way , because to do so might have destroyed the impression . |
| 28 | There can be little doubt that economically inactive lone mothers would have been classified as unoccupied in the census , but so might other people . |
| 29 | So might LTP be a mechanism by which memories were formed ? |
| 30 | When he conveyed this message to the Shah 's entourage , the US ambassador , Richard Parker , warned that as the situation in Iran changes so might the attitudes in Washington . |