Example sentences of "[conj] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the assumptions of the perfect market model are dropped it becomes clear that they have the capacity to safeguard these interests , manifested in a sluggishness of response , if not outright resistance , to changes in what consumers actually want , or might want if they were aware of the full range of possible alternatives . |
| 2 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 3 | In order to protect the interests of all people with care needs , of all people with dementia , who might end up in a private home , might end up in a voluntary home , might end up in Part 4 or might end up in a health service bed , it is necessary to look across that range of services at the general issues raised and see what can be done constructively in the interests of that total group of people with defined needs . |
| 4 | for example a survey of hospital staff would not usually be carried out by selecting names at random from the total staff list , it might concentrate on doctors , nurses or cleaners only , or might sample medical , paramedical , administrative and support staff in proportions of their total numbers depending on the purpose of the survey . |
| 5 | ‘ That 'd mean , or might mean , that Evans is not altogether wrong . |
| 6 | Or , like the note from a sick friend sent to the about-to-be-murdered Mrs Abby Borden of Fall River , it might mean something or might mean nothing at all . |
| 7 | Decisions by the Council usually went to the Privy Seal for transmission ; orders from the King might go there or might go first to the Signet . |
| 8 | The succeeding frame might take up another topic or might contain answers and comments on questions posed on the previous one . |
| 9 | It is no good saying your curriculum is to prepare people for life , and then ignoring what life 's experiences will or might consist of . |
| 10 | We will introduce rights for customers of all financial institutions , ensuring they are fully informed when changes are made which do or might affect them . |
| 11 | In the end , the account in Chapter 3 of the pressures for change amounts to an effective review of the recognition of the right of trade unions to be fully informed and consulted , in good time , by management about its intentions where they will or might affect the interests of employees organised by unions ; and so may be said to provide a firm footing for the argument that the practice of providing full information and of engaging in full consultation should be extended and adopted generally , in order that unions may better consider , and act in pursuance of , those interests . |
| 12 | ( An overt OR might serve as an index of this central change but would not , in itself , be directly responsible for most cases of latent inhibition . ) |
| 13 | Held , allowing the application , that since section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 made provision for persons arrested for breaking bail conditions , or on the likelihood of their so doing , to be brought before a single justice , it was an enactment falling within the exception contemplated by section 121 of the Act of 1980 which , in any event , was limited to summary trials of informations and the hearing of complaints under the civil jurisdiction ; that Parliament had intended by section 7(4) to create a simple and expeditious procedure whereby a justice was required , before forming an opinion under section 7(5) , to conduct no more than an informal inquiry , hearing the arresting officer 's grounds for belief that the person had broken or might break his bail conditions and allowing that person to respond , but without the giving of evidence on oath or cross-examination ; and that , since the provisions of the Act of 1980 relating to the adjournment of proceedings before magistrates ' courts did not apply , there was no power in the justice to adjourn proceedings under section 7(5) ( post , pp. 24A , G — 25B , C–G , 26B , E–F , H — 27A , G–H ) . |
| 14 | The sort of questions your adviser will ask are : whether you are investing for income now or capital growth in the future ; whether you need to go for absolute security with every penny you have or whether you can afford slightly more risky investments in the hope of making more money in the long run ; what other sources of income you have , or might expect to receive . |
| 15 | He can sell it and go back to France or might emigrate to America and join a different civil society . |
| 16 | If the makeup of the whole of a person 's being was represented by a frozen block of egg yolks and whites ( colour coded — dyed different colours ) then any other person wishing to investigate and make conscious or broadcast his feelings upon this being might have to take a sample or sliver through the block or might collect a number of such slivers , some from other people 's different angle scanning of that being , then I would suggest that the picture of flat slivers built up would in no way give the many complex proportions of shapes originally in the block . |
| 17 | On behalf of Mr. Tully it was argued that the disclosures made by Mr. Tully in compliance with the order of Buckley J. might be ‘ leaked ’ to the Crown Prosecution Service or might suggest to the Crown Prosecution Service new lines of inquiry . |
| 18 | ‘ In all these circumstances I think that it is a proper inference that , in the case of each journey in question , the plaintiffs paid the money unwillingly and only because they apprehended on reasonable grounds that without the permit which could not otherwise be obtained officers acting under the authority of the State of New South Wales would or might stop the motor vehicle and refuse to allow it to proceed upon the journey . |
| 19 | But he desired the little glass key , because he was a craftsman , and could see that it had taken masterly skill to blow all these delicate wards and barrel , and because he did not have any idea about what it was or might do , and curiosity is a great power in men 's lives . |
| 20 | As I have indicated on page 48 , there are a lot of other things an agency can or might do for you , and lots of departments it could have to do it . |
| 21 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 22 | The syndrome causes bizarre responses to any stimulus to the hemiplegic side , so Rose might feel very cold in very hot weather , for instance , or might perceive the lightest touch as extreme pain . |
| 23 | The official rulebook , Questions Of Procedure For Ministers , stresses it is a ‘ well-established and recognised rule that no Minister or public servant should accept gifts , hospitality or services from anyone who would , or might appear to , place him under an obligation . ’ |
| 24 | This is in sharp contrast to the Ministerial rule book , which states : ‘ No Minister or public servant should accept gifts , hospitality or services from anyone which would , or might appear to , place him or her under an obligation . |
| 25 | ‘ No Minister or public servant should accept gifts , hospitality or services from anyone which would , or might appear to , place him or her under an obligation . ’ |
| 26 | IDEC also employed a relocation co-ordinator between September 1980 and March 1981 to talk to each employee individually about problems they faced or might face as a result of the move . |
| 27 | ‘ even if Mr. Shephard had exercised some dominating influence over her , there is no evidence to show that the bank knew that he would or might bring such influence to bear , or that they used Mr. Shephard in order that he should exert pressure on his wife … |
| 28 | I accept of course that the police officers investigating on behalf of the Hampshire Constabulary , whose rank I do not know , and the Principal Crown Prosecutor thought they had seized sufficient documents or might acquire others independently . |
| 29 | Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) . |
| 30 | Frameless souls none might touch or might hold — |