Example sentences of "[adj] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government in not allowing them passports until 1985 might have protected the children at a crucial time in their development . |
| 2 | there is some potential for testing consistency of marking — it is a big worry to most of us , when marking a hundred different pieces of coursework , that the hundredth might have been marked to a different standard to the first . |
| 3 | Those allowing themselves 1,500 calories daily might reach a fibre intake of 50g daily . |
| 4 | Then , in December 1445 , Henry VI secretly undertook the surrender of the county of Maine , in so doing appearing to renounce sovereignty over it and implying , too , that the English might yield to further pressure , military or diplomatic . |
| 5 | The English might have created the form of Irish oppression , Engels wrote in 1848 , but the poverty was due to the temperament of the people . |
| 6 | But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they had been vigilant and active , perhaps the English might have owed to them . ’ |
| 7 | As the English might say : what a load of bollocks ! |
| 8 | Some might choose to describe these persons as " temporary workers " , but if they did they would have to recognise that they are also " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 9 | Some might admit that they use the best vins de taille in their demi-sec Champagnes where the extra sugar content is likely to mask any defects which may appear , but every house naturally declares that all inferior vins de taille are sold . |
| 10 | Whatever the strengths of this approach as a way of giving teachers a practical basis for beginning to change their practice , it carried the risk that some might presume that changing the physical arrangements of a classroom would of itself produce improved learning . |
| 11 | As much of his work makes clear ( see particularly Labov 1982b ) , the chief objective was not to describe relationships between speaker and linguistic variables , although this was certainly an interesting by-product of quantitative method which for some might comprise its main significance ; it is certainly of great practical interest to a number of professions ( see chapter 9 ) . |
| 12 | True , it was a televised match and some might suggest that his media advisers were earning their keep , but a prime minister who endures 90 minutes of Chelsea has surely earned the benefit of the doubt . |
| 13 | ‘ Synthetic ’ is logical but wrong ; ‘ normative ’ is possible ; some might suggest ‘ active ’ . |
| 14 | After all , it we were to ask which was the more metaphysical , divine law or the psychoanalytic unconscious , some might reply , ‘ the unconscious , though not by much ’ . |
| 15 | An alternative very different conclusion which some might draw from the method of isolation is that only some vast whole like that of planet earth and all life on it at large can have intrinsic value . |
| 16 | But some might care to reflect that driver Jack Mills died in 1970 a broken man . |
| 17 | Our overall consumption of 26.6mpg is a fine result given the zest with which the 325i performs and its relatively short intermediate gearing , though the best return of 27.9mpg suggests that some feather-footed tactics are n't as effective as some might expect . |
| 18 | Some might think a little delayed public spending on roads would not have been a bad idea at that time . |
| 19 | Some might think this historical evasion , but its lack of conclusiveness should be seen as a valiant struggle to understand the complexity of South Africa 's past and future . |
| 20 | While much maligned — some might think justifiably — as trivialising what real-life creativity is about , the use of such procedures has in fact helped , to some extent , to clarify our understanding of what is involved in original thinking . |
| 21 | But it is what the more energetic and motivated of these human resources — her people — have managed to do with the material resources that — to quote from just three current claims , which some might think exaggerated — has triggered an economic revolution , caught the rest of the world unprepared and given birth to a whole new era and a brand-new geography . |
| 22 | Some might think that those who do badly at school fare badly at work . |
| 23 | A comma has been used here to separate the two distinct impressions , but some might think it unnecessary even there . |
| 24 | ‘ But if we do n't — well , some might think it your fault , Wallace . |
| 25 | She had a firm speaking voice , which I suppose some might think pretty . |
| 26 | After that experience , some might think that his career slipped a little when he joined the Evening Standard , but he is clearly thriving in that career . |
| 27 | Some might think this a rather idiosyncratic approach to a primarily theoretical topic , but it seems appropriate to this book . |
| 28 | Some might think Langholm an unlikely location for a PLC head office — about as far from the madding crowd as you could get . |
| 29 | Some might go further and add that , contrary to popular — and some scholarly — belief , people do , in any case , usually speak in well-formed sentences . |
| 30 | Unlike France , however , the parliament is not constitutionally supine ; indeed it has a degree of control over policy which some might envy , although this is more a result of governmental weakness than anything else . |