Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chaucer uses this opportunity to present two quite contrasting tales , Sir Thopas and Melibee , the one a tail-rhyme romance , the other a moral example in prose ; two tales which in turn represent quite contrasting aspects of the one narratorial character , being two quite contrasting versions of what type of tale an audience or readership might think Chaucer " ought " to tell . |
| 2 | All too easily they feared , a recce might leave traces of the visit which , even if the lone navigator was not captured , could give away the intended landing point for an assault force . |
| 3 | One person informed us that he lost four and a half stone doing jury service : we considered sending on his letter to weight-watchers , so that the future courtroom might feature twelve fat men and true . |
| 4 | He wondered what hideous deformity might lie beneath the silken cloak and the deep dark hood . |
| 5 | Yet portions cling to the style of days gone by , when a salt beef sandwich might have been the single meal of the day . |
| 6 | So great and rapid is the devastation that some have feared that the entire reef might disappear — even though it contains 3000 separate coral islands , stretched 2000 km along the Queensland coast , and covering an area the size of Great Britain . |
| 7 | Jen might think she 's a bit tarty but she plays a tarty bit in it does n't she ? |
| 8 | Without a word , Jane turned and fled into the sitting room , leaving Patrick alone on the stairs , wondering what her reply might have been . |
| 9 | First , the defendant might argue that he believed in the victim 's consent since she permitted penetration although he knew full well that she had no understanding of the act . |
| 10 | However he later went on , at p. 631 , to countenance the possibility that the defendant might have been guilty of extortion in insisting upon payment ‘ even without that species of duress , viz. the refusal to allow the party to exercise his legal right , but colore officii . ’ |
| 11 | The plaintiff is playing with higher stakes because the cost penalty is likely to be bigger than the amount by which the defendant might overestimate the claim . |
| 12 | But if the plea can be supported by a finding of guilt alone , a defendant might escape punishment altogether . |
| 13 | On the other hand , excitation within a band concerned mainly with the ligand might result in enhancement of the intensity of internal ligand vibrations of the resonance Raman spectrum ( Fig. 6.30 ) . |
| 14 | We shall be particularly interested in discussing how a recipient might come to comprehend the producer 's intended message on a particular occasion , and how the requirements of the particular recipient(s) , in definable circumstances , influence the organisation of the producer 's discourse . |
| 15 | The recipient might become worried if successive letters then come threatening that action will be taken to obtain the price from him . |
| 16 | The distinction between the two at this level , however , does not have as much meaning as such labelling might suggest , for there are many species that can use both methods of feeding at different times . |
| 17 | Nenna might have added to her list of things that men do better than women their ability to do nothing at all in an unhurried manner . |
| 18 | I E bare subsistence might have been three hundred , four hundred . |
| 19 | Astute readers will note that our pages look different this week ; and those who know about journal redesign might expect to see a trickle of editorial blood emerging from The Lancet 's front door . |
| 20 | In its native China , the wheelbarrow 's narrow wheel might have sliced through the mud and found rock beneath , but here it just cut deep into the sand . |
| 21 | The trainer might prompt the trainees for alternative approaches . |
| 22 | A poll of 400 of the world 's leading climatologists organized by Greenpeace has shown that almost half think it possible that the greenhouse effect might reach the point of no return in the near future , and one in seven think it probable . |
| 23 | This effect might result from antibiotics , brought into paediatric medicine in the 1940s . |
| 24 | The next part of the story is pure circumstance but the effect might have saved poor Mr Cubbage 's life . |
| 25 | It is a tenable hypothesis that Bayezid II did indeed set a pattern and that many of the later foundations involving a joint muderris/muftilik were made simply in imitation of his precedent , though their effect might have been to create an official muftilik where none had existed before or to upgrade an existing muftilik ( which latter may well have been Bayezid II's intention in Amasya and Istanbul ) . |
| 26 | The closure would probably have to be done in stages , eg one weekday a week to start with , though that could be worse than total closure because motorists would switch to local roads for one day , but total closure might force them to switch modes altogether . |
| 27 | German rate inaction left many high street retailers weaker as a cut might have influenced UK rates . |
| 28 | Mrs Browning did not wish to hold him , saying she feared her arms were not strong enough and that her cough might disturb him . |
| 29 | It 's just that we thought the programme might benefit from a new face . |
| 30 | It is always possible that a degenerating programme might make a come-back . |