Example sentences of "might [verb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the Farrens might locate their struggle within music , but the music was part of the spectacle , and maybe ‘ people 's music ’ was part of the process of shattering it . |
| 2 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 3 | According to one loyalist thirties thirty or so of his colleagues think it 's more fun to vote against the Government , a smaller number go further , they think a spell in opposition might enhance their own careers . |
| 4 | Religious ideologies also might prepare their adherents to believe that they are the élite chosen to be saved . |
| 5 | Different varieties of crystals might earn their passage to new streams , not by crumbling into dust ‘ seeds ’ , but by dissecting their streams into lots of little streamlets that spread around , eventually joining and infecting new river systems . |
| 6 | But even when princes did strive to fulfil this ideal , there were considerations which might subvert their intentions . |
| 7 | Finance did not much affect the organisation of businesses , though it might influence their policy . |
| 8 | A Brady-plan sell-off of their debt at bargain-basement rates might damage their standing . |
| 9 | The state of confusion surrounding such issues was such that he was obliged to allow forty days ' grace to many of his ninety or so loyal vassals assembled at St Sever in September 1273 , so that they might consult their title-deeds , old charters , relatives and aged kinsmen . |
| 10 | And sitting , as they do , in parliament , but without real power , they are perfectly placed to intervene with ministers who are making decisions which might affect their own region . |
| 11 | places a duty on a self-employed person , in prescribed circumstances , to give persons who are not his employees information about such aspects of the way in which he conducts his undertakings as might affect their health or safety . |
| 12 | The aim of the new code was to " protect the individual against all wrongs which might affect their person , their freedom , their security , their dignity or their environment " as opposed to the old code which gave precedence to the defence of the state . |
| 13 | The employees then went on to David , who tested heart and lungs and talked to each of them to ascertain whether there were any personal anxieties that might affect their role in management . |
| 14 | Fearing that the outburst might make their predicament worse , the sober team-mate recoils with fear and says ‘ Calm doon wee man . |
| 15 | They might make their own bridge over a very small stream or ditch and find out what will float underneath . |
| 16 | Later , when her son was finished with his learning , she and he might make their way to Corporation Park , where they could stroll through the gardens and enjoy the sunshine of a beautiful July afternoon . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the use of powerful and wealthy nobles and kings as missionizers had led to proprietary churches and monasteries , that is to churches which were built and financed or " owned " by laymen who might make their own appointments . |
| 18 | One might demonstrate their formal properties but what are they actually used for ? |
| 19 | There is no claim that this resolves the differences , but it helps top managers understand where they might focus their efforts in order to improve effectiveness — i.e. it identifies inconsistent schemas . |
| 20 | The issues about which respondents expressed concern included the use made of the results by , variously , the police authorities and the IRA , and the associated question of whether the field-worker was a spy for the authorities or the Republican paramilitaries ( on researchers as spies see Hunt 1984 : 288–9 ; Manning 1972 : 248 ) ; the obtrusiveness of the ethnographer 's ubiquitous notepad ; sensitivity to how the research might compromise their personal security or lead to a transfer , and worthies over the field-worker 's religion ; and the whole focus and topic of the investigation . |
| 21 | Such inducements as salary , status and job interest , could be used to ensure that staff might enjoy their new roles . |
| 22 | Serial numbers are missing from much of the electrical equipoment but police properties officers hope people might recognise their belongings . |
| 23 | Hand-loom weaving has always been considered a male artisan activity , with the concession that wives from time to time might assist their husbands at the cottage loom . |
| 24 | In the meantime , he suggested local authorities and individual schools might introduce their own schemes . |
| 25 | The Town and Country Planning Act ( 1968 ) and Town and Country Planning ( Scotland ) Act ( 1969 ) introduced a system of structure and local plans , apparently endorsing a vision in which planning departments of different authorities might integrate their development strategies into a coherent network , supervised by the Department of the Environment , the Welsh Office and the Scottish Development Department within the Scottish Office . |
| 26 | If glass vessels were prestigious drinking vessels , one might expect their cheaper equivalents to appear in the ceramic assemblage ; true skeuomorphs are not present amongst the pottery , although there is a strong similarity between the turned wooden vessels with metal rims from the Sutton Hoo mound I ship burial and the squat jars of Harden 's type VIII ( 1956b ; 1978 ) . |
| 27 | But being steeped , like them , in the philosophy that if one did a job at all one might as well do it splendidly — or at least a good deal better than the Braithwaites — he had built a very decent stone school with a walled yard and a tiny house attached for the use of the teacher , where anyone who paid him rent for his mill-cottages or any of his other employees who resided elsewhere might send their children — to suit the convenience of the teacher — free of charge . |
| 28 | They were far more concerned about how politicians and journalists might misuse their data , either through ignorance or to further their own ends . |
| 29 | Lord Denning raised the obvious question as to whether the judges might misuse their power — power which he wished to see dramatically increased — but he argued that we " need have no fear … |
| 30 | Not that she had anything against the vicar personally , though it had been hard to forgive his refusal of her request for an ‘ Animals ’ Sunday' to which people might bring their pets to be blessed . |