Example sentences of "[subord] it might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Harry was preparing to aim a kick at this driver where it might hurt , the man offered him more milk , saying that he was a Frenchman doing forced labour and had recognised Harry 's RAF uniform — by now extremely unsuitable for pay parade ! |
| 2 | This takes a look at where the game has been in the Eighties and where it might be going in future . |
| 3 | I can see that now , even though I had no idea at the beginning where it might all lead me . |
| 4 | There was still a dark blob , where it might have hit the wall . |
| 5 | Apart from these texts there are a few which are revealing for the opposite reason : they deny the existence of a trust where it might have been expected . |
| 6 | It could be a hazard only where it might build up in poorly ventilated buildings . |
| 7 | Claims to leadership of national antislavery opinion also involved hopes of influencing British government policy where it might make a difference — for example , in negotiations over the continuing problem of slave trade suppression and on particular issues such as American fugitive slaves in British territories or terms for British recognition of the independence of Texas . |
| 8 | The only site conserved between rat and human CD2 ( Asn 112 ) places the oligosaccharide at the bottom of domain 2 , where it might interact with the cell surface , opposite the highly basic surface of the GFCC' sheet . |
| 9 | The reconceptualisation which feminism is attempting has a direct and vital bearing on central philosophical issues , not only in political philosophy where it might have been expected , but also in epistemology , ontology , philosophy of mind , and ethics . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most difficult decision , where it might be appropriate , is to use the face ( or the voice ) of a celebrity or , in particular , a TV , radio or film personality . |
| 11 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 12 | His uncertainty over what he had and where it might be seemed to indicate that he only drank when he entertained , and that he did n't entertain very often . |
| 13 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 14 | To Cnut and some of his contemporaries this world still mattered , and evidence of this has been found where it might have been least expected . |
| 15 | However , where the job was a very difficult one involving areas where it might be impossible to gain access even with scaffolding , and the reservation had been specifically drawn to the consumer 's attention , then it would seem reasonable to rely on the clause . |
| 16 | It has even refused to injunct a magazine which had published an allegation it could not justify , where it might succeed at trial for other reasons : Soraya Kashoggi sought an injunction to withdraw " Woman 's Own " from circulation when it published a statement that she was having an extra-marital affair with a Head of State . |
| 17 | Except it might give him security . |
| 18 | Few performers would be entirely happy touring the country as , say , Oswald Mosley , although it might make for a more interesting evening dramatically . |
| 19 | Thus , although it might be useful to remember a particular telephone number ( and so convert a short-term into a long-term memory ) , this is often not the case and we are unlikely to want to remember every hand of cards . |
| 20 | And if the State denies us that right of individual choice then , although it might shower us with gifts , it is robbing us of our deepest , profoundest freedom , that upon which all other freedoms depend , and so the State , any State , which denies God 's ultimate gift must be opposed . ’ |
| 21 | Two years later she began using Bernard Berenson as her buyer of Italian old masters , although it might be said that Berenson was using her , praising each new find in breathless superlatives in order to get the best price out of his patroness . |
| 22 | A vast new respectable society arose round the professions , dignified by the belief that what they were doing ( although it might be exorbitantly expensive ) was in pursuit of some higher calling . |
| 23 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 24 | It was not a peculiar psychological deviation , nor yet a hangover from the old order ( although it might be that as well ) . |
| 25 | Although it might seem highly unlikely , there are considerable similarities between the male and female genital anatomy — the different structures having started from similar beginnings during the development of the foetus of either sex . |
| 26 | So I headed back , realising that plans to combine Beinn an Dothaidh should be abandoned since the view would be remarkably similar from its summit , although it might not boast a ring pull . |
| 27 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 28 | There is likely to be substantial increases in CPU times , although it might be possible to reduce this by a factor of 5 . |
| 29 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 30 | Some power was always available — if only through the mythical Ways and Means Act — although it might have to be handled with kid gloves . |