Example sentences of "that they might " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was generally understood by the media to mean that the hierarchy would not oppose the introduction of divorce in a future united Ireland , indeed that they might be prepared to budge on the issue even now . |
| 2 | at present good recruits often have to be chased to Bramshill [ on the lengthy command courses ] , because chief constables are not anxious to spare able men , and officers themselves are reluctant to be separated from their families and homes , as well as having a fear that they might lose from being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ for promotion . |
| 3 | The conviction carried by how things are in his fiction can not be separated from the sense that they might be otherwise . |
| 4 | Freudians , like Marxists , can not step outside their own forms of thought to admit that they might be wrong ( unless , like Crews , they undergo a deconversion ) . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | In Euripides 's play Orestes ( 408 BC ) , Apollo says The gods by means of Helen 's loveliness embroiled Troy and Hellas , causing death thereby , that they might lighten Mother Earth of the outrage done her by man 's excessive population . |
| 7 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 8 | But Peter Walker and Jim Prior , also well-known doubters , were retained ( Prior until September 1984 ) , no doubt for fear that they might prove troublesome on the back bench . |
| 9 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 10 | ‘ The streets are n't icy ? ’ he asked , and , reassured that they were not — not in the city centre , anyway — he suggested that they might take a short stroll , just a short one , if that suited Erika . |
| 11 | The trip awakened many boyhood memories , and Warnie remarked that they might do worse than spend their declining years there . |
| 12 | There have been suggestions that they might be given state funding , or that some RCD members in the Chamber of Deputies might resign to allow the other parties a look in . |
| 13 | The Phoenix Arts Centre in Leicester is trying to shake off its persistent image of being just too highbrow for words and it is striving to show the general public that they might actually enjoy some of the things that go on there . |
| 14 | Iraqis , battered by the intense bombing of Baghdad , joyously — and prematurely — celebrated the news that they might be about to lose their 19th province . |
| 15 | So sweeping are these demands , however , that they might be met only if large numbers of other workers support them , or if the miners bring the Soviet economy to a halt . |
| 16 | A prayer was said for Iraqi soldiers , that they might die with the name of Jesus on their lips and be saved from eternal damnation . |
| 17 | As he explains in the ‘ Epistle to the Reader ’ , he began it after a discussion in which it occurred to him and his friends that they might get further with the problems which concerned them if they were first to ‘ examine our own abilities , and see , what objects our understandings were , or were not fitted to deal with ’ . |
| 18 | Before the last Test at the Oval , Gower exhorted his troops to ‘ one last , big effort ’ to avoid completely ignominy , and for a while it seemed that they might . |
| 19 | The theory was that on seeing the sign motorists would be so surprised that they might drive into the verge or the car in front . |
| 20 | Christ 's example is not that of helping us across a road , or showing us what good neighbours we must be — but costly , redemptive , self-emptying love ; love which lays down its life for others so that they might be restored to God . |
| 21 | One of the hazards of the sudden death of infants was that they might be carried off before they had been baptised . |
| 22 | My decision has been not to breed from her , but I 'm still sending letters to colleagues who specialise in genetics and orthopaedics , hoping that they might be able to shed some light on the significance of what I unexpectedly found . |
| 23 | ‘ They may have decided that they might n't like the loss of privacy or would n't feel happy handling the money , ’ she says . |
| 24 | With that decision people came face to face with the expectation known to the early Christians soon after the Crucifixion and to the deeply religious who shivered at the approach of the year A.D. 1000 — the expectation that they might indeed see the end of the world in their lifetime . |
| 25 | However , if virtually everybody ( friends and family ) start to remark that you are losing too much weight , consider that they might just be right . |
| 26 | Despite the fact that they might not need it , most people like a little fat spread on bread or choose to have fried food occasionally . |
| 27 | The whole process had become discredited once various members of the indigent upper classes had taken to hiring themselves out as proxy mothers to daughters of self-made industrialists , in order that they might contract a marriage with a desperate aristo . |
| 28 | The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices , yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them , so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention . |
| 29 | They do not know what sort of sacrifice most propitiates them , so that they might be wasting their sacrifices . |
| 30 | By the mid 1960s , only four per cent were reporting that they might be willing once again to vote for someone like Hitler . |