Example sentences of "might [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably some patrol ship on the high seas might log messages in this way , but it is clear that , as humans , our experience of utterances is not that we have recorded in memory a list of utterances to which are attached standard tags specifying time and place in these terms . |
| 2 | The Englishman 's news from New York emphasized again the paper 's tilt towards the United States ; it might cover Italy , India , Denmark , but it was the America of LBJ , poetry , the Vietnam movement , and Golden Gate love-ins that exerted the magnetic attraction . |
| 3 | Many people might prefer Bartók 's First Violin Concerto , the obvious and most suitable coupling , but Norbert Moret 's Violin Concerto of 1988 , written for Mutter , receives a quite astounding performance . |
| 4 | In this they will find enthusiastic allies within the Third World in the political sphere , in the bureaucracy and in business circles , who might prefer cash crops ( see Burnell , 1986 , ch.3 ) . |
| 5 | Unaccompanied children admitted , but parents/guardians are advised that the film contains material they might prefer children under 12 not to see . |
| 6 | It is also possible to argue that less sensitive and reflective young readers might prefer Astrid Lindgren 's Pippi Longstocking stories , or relate to Erica in Jan Mark 's Handles rather than to the solitary Toms , Maxes , and Tollies . |
| 7 | Over and above this , men might vow individuals or possessions to God as a dedication or thank-offering . |
| 8 | Barney might experience flashes of impatience and anger , say and do things he would later regret , but she could not believe him capable of the blind , destructive hatred that had driven the knife into Angy 's throat . |
| 9 | A mind used to questioning scientific hypotheses might experience discomfort with contentious elements in a classical creed — just as Newton , before Priestley , dismissed the doctrine of the Trinity as a Platonist corruption of a biblical Christianity . |
| 10 | While it is recognized that anyone might experience anger at some time , and engage in a quarrel , most would not admit to having done so . |
| 11 | He commenced in a rasping voice which scratched his words into his listeners ' minds as a claw might groove butter . |
| 12 | In addition it was to be hoped that Max could come up with some fairly definite cause of death ; and it was even possible ( if only just ) that the surgeon might throw caution to the wind for once and volunteer a tentative approximation of the time it had actually happened . |
| 13 | We can examine individual finds or groups of them in different ways , depending on how the find was made , the area in which it occurred or the problem on which it might throw light . |
| 14 | The Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer were ordered to examine Domesday Book and other records and documents in the Exchequer and Treasury which might throw light on this question , and to report to the Council : former officers of the Forest , such as Hugh Despenser , were to deliver up to the Chancellor and Treasurer all relevant documents in their possession and custody . |
| 15 | Perhaps a few examples of Smithsonian directors ' thinking in rejecting and accepting material , or even releasing items in the collections , might throw light on the subject . |
| 16 | General results in the theory of computation might throw light on animal perception , by showing that a given type of representation in principle could not express a certain type of information , or that it would he enormously less efficient than most other type . |
| 17 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 18 | May Day in Moscow might outdo Easter in Seville . ’ |
| 19 | Thus an able 11-year-old pupil might attain level 7 in a particular subject while a pupil of the same age in the same school who has learning difficulties might reach level 3 . |
| 20 | Similarly , workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health . |
| 21 | The HSE says that companies that take shortcuts when building new units , refurbishing and converting facilities , especially those for high-rise work , might expose workers to infectious , allergenic or toxic hazards . |
| 22 | If the élites could be persuaded that war might trigger revolution , then they would think twice before unleashing it . |
| 23 | I also considered that the two eclipses this month , reminiscent of those in the days before Edward VIII 's abdication , might trigger Charles renouncing the succession in favour of Prince William . |
| 24 | They might eat fruit and vegetables and dairy products but that was for their health , not because they liked them . |
| 25 | Clearly , no one explanation could cover why we eat cows but not cats ; why big game hunting is the traditional pursuit of the wealthy ; why furs are going out of fashion ; why sexual slang employs so many animal and eating metaphors ; why customary cannibalism is seldom if ever authenticated ; why we worry so much more about high fat meats than about eating cheese ; why so many religious sects espouse vegetarianism ; why burger bars have been redecorating with pastel colours ; why the Flintstones barbecue dinosaur steaks ; why we eat beef rather than cow ; why businessmen might eat steak tartare at a negotiating lunch ; and why meat is said to give men aggression , strength , or heterosexual virility . |
| 26 | Those shuriken stars could slice through armour and carapace and bone and might cripple Scouts yet would not inevitably kill a superhuman body . |
| 27 | To the linguist , it is clear at once that she has not really managed to speak JC , she has just made an imitation of it which might fool people not really familiar with that language . |
| 28 | With a helpless little movement she sat up , drawing up her knees and hugging them as if in some way she might glean comfort from the gesture . |
| 29 | Tom Cannon was paid £15,000 simply as a retainer in the 1880s and Vamplew has calculated that the best riders in the period 1870–1914 might earn £75,000 in their careers . |
| 30 | There is certainly historical evidence from the economic geography of the UK which , at first sight at least , might lend credence to this view . |