Example sentences of "might [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , the assets of the remaining 30 or 300 former partners would be protected ; their stake in the firm might disappear of course , but not their home . |
| 2 | The only circumstances under which it would be possible to remove the National Government were those which actually arose in May 1940 : " A new situation might arise of course , if any considerable number of Members of Parliament now supporting the Government . |
| 3 | Society might disapprove of the adulterous relationship flaunted so openly , but Lord John believed that Jane 's beauty excused everything . |
| 4 | This was not as easy as they hoped ; they knew that , however much it might disapprove of their activities , the English government certainly had no power to get its orders obeyed on the western side of the Atlantic , but their charter , which they hoped would make them independent of England , and on which they relied for the legal basis of their community , said — like all the other charters — that they must not pass laws that were not consistent with English laws . |
| 5 | I think of it more as a novelist might think of a bookshop . |
| 6 | This time the UN deserves someone of consequence — who might think of making a successful businessman his deputy in order to tackle the UN 's nightmarish bureaucracy . |
| 7 | What we might think of as a process of deliberation and choice about our desires is , for him , simply the interplay and jostling of desires amongst themselves ; and what we call ‘ will ’ is simply the desire that wins . |
| 8 | Even if they were sufficiently eminent , not all of the members of the Royal Society would have a place in the History of Science as we might think of it now . |
| 9 | We might think of the real essence of a triangle , ‘ three lines enclosing a space ’ , as instructions for making such a figure : it is how that figure is constituted . |
| 10 | Similarly , to take another case , we might think of the real essence of a circle , a figure which bears a constant relation to some one point , as an indication of how , along Hobbesian lines , to generate or construct one . |
| 11 | We might think of a pioneer as someone who goes into the wilderness to prepare a home for others . |
| 12 | The applications of a disciplined spatial intuition to art and design , and to the study of natural morphologies in every conceivable science is so great that perhaps we might think of geometry as a semi autonomous department of mathematics with different as well as overlapping purposes to abstract mathematics . |
| 13 | It would n't be what you might think of as being on metre , and so you really had to listen and be real careful , because John Lee was gon na play his stuff and you better fit into it because he was n't gon na fit in with you ! |
| 14 | For example , I might think of a rather jolly idea for a cover story . |
| 15 | Others are more fixed and allow little room for adjustment , and these we might think of as more lexical in character . |
| 16 | But the list might give some idea of the maximum proportions of people who might think of some other form of credit as a potential alternative , when actually offered any particular type of credit . |
| 17 | He had no intention , he said , of being part of a permanent commune , he had his medical degree to get , but he might think of coming there for his holidays . |
| 18 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 19 | If that fell down Hearn might think of staging such a fight in France . |
| 20 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 21 | At the most general level , therefore , it is convenient to think of the speech community as having a ‘ shape ’ and of language in the community as being capable of displaying patterns , much as we might think of these other dynamic phenomena as displaying shapes and patterns . |
| 22 | I mean I might think of doing something like that , but I 'd never actually dare to do it … |
| 23 | I suggested that he might think of removing the last three syllables from his name , which he did by deed poll . |
| 24 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 25 | experiment are what we might think of as optional inferences . |
| 26 | There is also evidence in favour of the view that what we might think of as pragmatic factors influence language comprehension . |
| 27 | However , in society the groups that we might think of as having an influence upon the decision-making processes will be the trade unions , representatives of the business world such as the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) , the bureaucracy and political parties . |
| 28 | However little his lordship might think of Birmingham or a Birmingham man , he failed to get admission that night to the platform and was ‘ left swearing ’ . |
| 29 | To emphasise this point , we can look briefly at some of the steps that banks might think of taking in order to circumvent the constraint . |
| 30 | At this moment she did not care at all whether she was observed , or what the observer might think of her . |