Example sentences of "might [adv] bring [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The conference being of a very high level , the participants had been limited to just eighteen very distinguished gentlemen and two ladies — a German countess and the formidable Mrs Eleanor Austin , at that time still resident in Berlin ; but each of these might reasonably bring secretaries , valets and interpreters , and there proved no way of ascertaining the precise number of such persons to expect .
2 A former Justice Department prosecutor , Lawrence Barcella , said that the policy risked offending otherwise friendly countries , which might even bring kidnapping charges against the FBI .
3 Lij Yasu 's restoration would at the least constitute a considerable propaganda success for Turkey ; it might even bring Abyssinia into the war on the side of our enemies , at a time when we were fighting the Germans in East Africa , the Turks in Sinai , Mesopotamia and the Aden Protectorate , and the Dervishes in Somaliland .
4 For their part , although the die-hard aristocratic opponents of change were desperately anxious about opening the floodgates , they nevertheless came to see that the price of resistance was becoming too high and might even bring disaster and revolution .
5 Earl Patrick might well bring Edward himself here — who had paid for the improved defences .
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