Example sentences of "might [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | on whether the Treasurer might or still might not |
| 2 | Er , how do I get down at all , erm , of course that might not be a worry , you might and just remain in the realm for all eternity . |
| 3 | ( Had this kind of European provision existed in the 1920s and 1930s it might and probably would have made it much more difficult for the Fascist and other extreme forms of government to take hold . ) |
| 4 | The normal or even inevitable road of life passed across chasms into which the worker and his family might and probably would fall : the birth of children , old age and retirement . |
| 5 | Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes . |
| 6 | because , yeah well I thought I might and then he said something about I was at this meeting where I was talking to all these official in their suits and ties and I was only dressed casual and I thought , at that point I sort of |
| 7 | Well you might but only at that age |
| 8 | He needed someone to throw him a lifeline and I decided it might as well be me . |
| 9 | Besides , I did n't think I could now save enough to make a significant difference to my standard of living when I retired , so I decided I might as well enjoy it while I had the chance . |
| 10 | The station cafe was still open so I decided that I might as well go in there . |
| 11 | I do n't think I 'll get much sleep tonight anyway so I might as well save it for food or something . ’ |
| 12 | She might as well have been eating spam . |
| 13 | Anything less and we might as well not do it at all . |
| 14 | We might as well be praying ! ’ |
| 15 | If they kept to themselves , the whole northern end of the area might as well be written off . |
| 16 | So : up there they are with us , some of them ; but here we might as well be among foreigners . |
| 17 | The government put this here after ‘ Forty-six because they wanted one spot of safety in a wilderness of hatred , and because they thought they might as well get some good of this country once they 'd ruined it . |
| 18 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 19 | Some people even leave notes on the front door for a delivery man — you might as well put an invitation in the front garden . |
| 20 | He might as well ask the reader to believe in those supremely credible terrorized musicians scraping and blowing through the small hours . |
| 21 | But what is unavoidable may still be undesirable , and one might as well say so . |
| 22 | However , the poem that opens the volume , ‘ Ego Dominus Tuus ’ , is in the form of an inconclusive dialogue between two persons ‘ Hic ’ and ‘ Ille ’ , who it is generally agreed might as well be named at certain points as ‘ Ez ’ and ‘ Willie ’ . |
| 23 | If this is so , then it seems that for ‘ the art one serves ’ one might as well read : the culture one serves , the historical period one serves , even the society one serves ( perhaps an international society ) . |
| 24 | But Elaine says that despite this help , she might as well be in an institution . |
| 25 | WHEN Saul Bellow wrote of America as the place where the ‘ modern action ’ is , he might as well have included the whole continent : Central and South America , with their chaotic flux of civil wars , bloody massacres , assassinations , coups and putsches , are about as modern as the action gets . |
| 26 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 27 | Carr drove home fundamental points , but said nothing about the actual working practices of historians , and , in his inspirational advocacy of a new kind of socialist history , left students with the impression that the solid , source-based stuff which formed their staple diet might as well be cast into the dustbin . |
| 28 | In some ways I might as well have been in the Outer Hebrides , Now everyone 's got a car it 's difficult to explain how isolated somewhere like Kensal Green used to be in those days . |
| 29 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 30 | You might as well wait yourself to see if there 's anything for the house . ’ |