Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And so for each one of them you might 've started by , having got all this , what you could do then is write for each individual element , a tank base , a tank wall a bedroom or a bathroom , you can produce , I would suggest , a little bar chart which might look like that , for one unit . |
| 32 | ‘ Another man might 've attempted to expose Bo-Bo to herself . |
| 33 | No no I , I do n't know , I sort of thought something might 've happened . |
| 34 | It might 've helped if Ivor had bothered to be here . ’ |
| 35 | A further point is that departmental officials ( and client groups ) might feel threatened by the policy implications of performance measurement , as might ‘ a Cabinet of ministers committed to a party programme and to ways of winning the next general election ’ ( Lee , 1984 , p. 5 ) . |
| 36 | ‘ You thought perhaps she might feel insulted — that you should imagine she could be so easily led ? ’ |
| 37 | For example , if the transfer price is set below market price , then the selling division might feel penalised and the buying division would be ‘ feather-bedded ’ . |
| 38 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 39 | With the war now raging in the Middle East we might feel tempted to question such certainty . |
| 40 | Is it possible that humans might feel overshadowed and surpassed , perhaps attacking the machines in a paroxysm of wounded pride , or , at the other extreme , coming to worship them , as an embodiment of a higher power ? |
| 41 | But the Labour Party dislikes this prospect , and avoided it in 1967 because of the fear that an elected House might feel entitled to challenge the supremacy of the Commons . |
| 42 | My daddy might feel left out of it |
| 43 | She might feel compelled to attack him physically at any moment and he was alarming enough to convince her that he would lift her in the air , shake her like a rag doll and toss her over a crag . |
| 44 | The State Department noted that a weakened Britain , with no immediate restoration of the balance of power in Europe in prospect , might feel compelled to look initially to the United Nations ( UN ) for help in the defence of her interests . |
| 45 | Police and their supporters say officers nearing contract renewal , might feel compelled to boost their arrest records , and they wonder how the work of Barry Critchley and the late Patrick Dunn , low key potentially dangerous , can be measured against higher profile colleagues . |
| 46 | They saw nationalism as a bourgeois movement , but also as a danger to the working-class movement , which might become tainted by nationalist tendencies . |
| 47 | For most individuals the ie grouping and the village were of prime importance , but these might become overlaid by membership of other groups , for example , as a result of occupation or education . |
| 48 | The Colonel was in a hurry , realising how essential it was to keep the momentum of the attack rolling ; otherwise the resistance might become coordinated into a strong , interlocked series of defence positions . |
| 49 | But there is a danger that education might become confined within a strictly utilitarian approach that neglects literature , the arts and social sciences . |
| 50 | Although mental illness should not be regarded as any different from physical illness , it is not always so viewed by the uninformed and the fact that in later life it might become known that a minor had been treated under the Acts might redound to his or her disadvantage . |
| 51 | During those peaceful weeks Modigliani would occasionally break out from his comfortable existence , as if afraid that he might become sucked into bourgeois life . |
| 52 | In stooks standing for too long in wet weather , the bottoms of sheaves might become moussed as dampness set in . |
| 53 | We were ecstatic as we returned to Bira with the good news , but a closer look at the grounded Sinar Surya and the motley bunch with whom we might sail made it clear that our troubles were far from over . |
| 54 | There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged . |
| 55 | The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers . |
| 56 | Left to my own devices I think I might have shrugged my shoulders and accepted it . |
| 57 | Had Theodora not been her father 's daughter , and therefore beautifully bred , she might have snorted at such palpable idiocy |
| 58 | What was important , however , was the danger that an unpredictable politician , potentially hostile to Western interests , might have manipulated oil flows in order to control crude oil prices . |
| 59 | ‘ If I had missed it , it might have destroyed me . ’ |
| 60 | The public fantasies of television might have destroyed the need for private ones . |