Example sentences of "[noun] might [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What remedy might Manuel obtain if he succeeds in either of these actions against Mr Pasta ?
2 Which form or forms of civil action might Mr Hapless bring against Mr Careless ?
3 Yeah a lot of people will your Mum might Nigel Kennedy , look at the Aston Villa club shots .
4 While this contributes to crime prevention , especially with respect to joy-riders who steal and drive cars at speed at might ( which requires neighbourhood men in West Belfast to work might duty ) , it has none of the wider community service functions evident in Easton .
5 Tonks was incensed about the Vichy venture , as were the NZRFU folk at home , everyone was embarrassed that they had no way of knowing where the All Black party were , what was involved in the game , and where next the travelling group might surface .
6 On the other hand , radio is still used for diversity of routing or for emergency circuits , particularly in tricky terrain or earthquake-prone zones where optical fibre circuits might fracture .
7 It was the kind of loose description a teacher might hand out to a class of pupils and ask for drawings based on its inspiration .
8 This sections is present to identify those environments with which the process might deadlock ( i.e. stop because it can not agree any communication with the environment ) .
9 There were plenty of promises of big money , fame , glamour , fast cars and all the trappings that any actor might lust towards .
10 Few children live close to these work sites ( and , obviously , none offshore ) , but the regular home visits of these workers might occasion indirect exposure of their home communities to any effects of the mixing in those unusual worksites .
11 Exactly what academic ( as opposed to , say , more general civil ) rights might students legitimately claim ?
12 What other things might D S S take into account ?
13 My attention here has been held far more by the enigma of syntactic structure , and how its development might mesh with the conceptual analyses of meaning and intentionality offered by philosophers of language .
14 For example : — a distribution manager might debrief a distribution simulation , — a planner might participate in a public enquiry on land development , — a trade unionist might participate in a health and safety audit in a science laboratory .
15 Forgetful of the silence which prevailed over his own most troubling experiences , he believed that direct and gentle questioning might embolden even the least articulate sufferer to speak all the grief and rage of the heart , and so dispel it .
16 By any account this has offered a golden opportunity to understand the origins of Christianity more fully , to appreciate the social , economic , religious and political circumstances within which a Galilean Jew might impact so strongly upon world history .
17 But as the Olympic flame died last night , there was every sign that David Coleman might hand on the BBC baton .
18 Back in England , although his friends might snicker , they were still impressed : he was up there , a Hollywood star in a big Hollywood epic .
19 Realising that this section of tunnel might cave in under the weight of the collapsing building overhead , Grant started forward .
20 National pamphleteers remote from the social relations of the villages might rant on about the idle and undeserving poor , but relief at local level was in the hands of the annually elected parish overseers supervised by the vestry meeting , and they knew their own poor well enough .
21 Small electorates can be managed by politicians , and when the typical county might number forty to sixty freeholders in its electoral roll , while even one of the more extensive lists would rarely exceed 150 voters , many of whom would be nominally qualified , there was clearly opportunity for manipulation .
22 We could ask , for example : what sort of personal sacrifices might people have to make in order to reduce pollution ?
23 He was watching the Headmistress with an exceedingly wary eye and he kept edging farther and farther away from her with little shuffles of his feet , rather as a rat might edge away from a terrier that is watching it from across the room .
24 To the north of the temple 's West Court , an open square in the town has been interpreted as an early example of an agora , a place where citizens might Father for public meetings .
25 This is not the only argument for integrity , or the only consequence of recognizing it that citizens might value .
26 The only hope for the naturalist was that the stolen specimens might re-surface in Europe , where he could then buy them back .
27 ‘ You mean Stratton might nol have been on the train ?
28 If Alger Hiss could betray his country for the sake of Communism — and he is still trying to establish his innocence — where else among the highest in the land might treason be found ?
29 To what extent might companies buy in maintenance from the machinery suppliers ; to what extent might workers become skilled at the repair and maintenance of particular machines rather than skilled at a particular aspect of a machine 's functioning , rather like the situation already obtaining with the repair and maintenance of household equipment such as washing machines , or office equipment such as photocopiers ; and to what extent might companies take over the training of skilled workers , giving them courses specifically suited to the requirements of their own production systems and certificating them within house ?
30 To what extent might companies buy in maintenance from the machinery suppliers ; to what extent might workers become skilled at the repair and maintenance of particular machines rather than skilled at a particular aspect of a machine 's functioning , rather like the situation already obtaining with the repair and maintenance of household equipment such as washing machines , or office equipment such as photocopiers ; and to what extent might companies take over the training of skilled workers , giving them courses specifically suited to the requirements of their own production systems and certificating them within house ?
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