Example sentences of "might [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Might not Jesus himself have been rather different from the picture given of him in the gospels and the subsequent teaching of the church ? |
| 2 | Well I might not Peter 's entire office dip switch Trev . |
| 3 | Might not History , at the level of the grand ensembles , be an ambiguous interpenetration of unity and plurality , of dialectic and anti-dialectic , of sense and nonsense ? |
| 4 | And might not Bénezet have passed on all his gleanings to Rémy , as he did to you ? |
| 5 | In other words , might not loyalty in large companies be bought by promises of job security ? |
| 6 | Worse , might not Aunt Louise herself have known of the plan and have colluded in it , so that Celia might escape , freed of responsibility , into a new life abroad ? |
| 7 | The activities of Whips are a mystery to most people outside Parliament but it is known that they do occasionally cajole , threaten and even bully MPs who might not toe the party line . |
| 8 | If things are too easy might not people become lazy and fall asleep ? |
| 9 | Might not St Paul or Thomas Aquinas raise an eyebrow at the idea that their views continue to be cited , given the knowledge which we now have about the origin of humankind or the biological relation of woman to man ? l6 |
| 10 | Might not Derek Pringle 's participation in the World cup final with the help of a cortisone injection have been at the risk of permanent damage to himself| ? |
| 11 | ‘ Say Markham is paying Wheeler or Wheeler is paying Markham for services rendered and say Paul was implicated either way , might not Rosamund know about it , if it involved money going into or out of any of Wheeler 's accounts ? ’ |
| 12 | A broad-beamed fellow like myself should have no difficulty careering it across the ironing board , although a woman or even a bachelor-wimp might sooner resort to an old-fashioned metal iron than attempt to put this monster through its paces . |
| 13 | Could we just go on to twenty one and we might just sort of stop this part of the lesson there . |
| 14 | What might further investigations yield ? |
| 15 | Those with money burning a hole in their pocket might also car to visit the casino . |
| 16 | Gardeners might also fork out £2,000 for a statue-alarm — now commonplace in gardens owned by the National Trust . |
| 17 | They might tomorrow night , I do n't know ! |
| 18 | A parallel AS/400 might even surface one day , the company suggests . |
| 19 | You might even fracture your orbital plates — those are thin layers of bone above your eyes . |
| 20 | The movement that began with Greek sculpture rapidly added other new areas of study to the familiar territories of language and literature , issuing in a serious concern not simply with " the classics " , but with ancient civilization in all its aspects : aspects that might well centre on the " facts " of ancient life , its physical relics , its customs and institutions : all of which to be summed up in the German word Realien . |
| 21 | This is a case in which Paul 's maxim might well apply. : where the words are not ambiguous there is no call to raise questions of intention . |
| 22 | Their attempts as detailed in Easter Monday 's Guardian might well misfire . |
| 23 | Perhaps , who knows , the great Hoskins might yet grace King 's Magnum Parva with his presence . |
| 24 | Villages and towns might occasionally war with each other , but the fundamental basis of life was local . |
| 25 | When you ca n't do something you know , you might actually kind of , your whole body kind of starts to , and that would be the ego as it were trying to express this , this er drive from the id . |
| 26 | If I might secondly Mr Mayor address some of the concerns that have been expressed and no doubt , will doubt be expressed later on . |