Example sentences of "that [pers pn] might [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized that I might actually have a sin . |
| 2 | He hinted that she might even receive an honour from the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher if she gave her support . |
| 3 | As long as she 'd been fighting him there had still been a hope that she might eventually emerge the victor . |
| 4 | Bloomsbury House , asked to contribute £35 towards books , told her she was too late that term ( it was November ) and that she might possibly get a small emergency grant for the summer term ( six months ahead ) if she still needed it . |
| 5 | Finally we observe that unc and so , if we replace the unc sign by + , if we simply drop the unc sign and if we then agree to write unc we establish a notational way of writing polynomials that we might just find a little easier to work with ! |
| 6 | Erm , when I drew attention to this , one of the first things I did when I got elected to this council , erm , we get papers back which seem to suggest that in fact the Home Office are funding it at a level which , dare I say suggests that we might even make a small profit , er and I have in fact recently been approached by colleagues from Gloucestershire , asking us how we manage in that er , er exercise , because they 're concerned about the high cost of er , protection for certain royal establishments in their county . |
| 7 | How distressed and worried is industry in those regions that we might mistakenly have a Labour Government , which would do so much damage to inward investment ? |
| 8 | My mood changed from one of deep despair to sheer exultation , possibly in the reasonable hope that we might now survive the descent . |
| 9 | By 1719 its absorption of so much of the unfunded debt was suggesting to ministers that they might also shift a proportion of the funded debt its way . |
| 10 | ‘ Panspermia ’ , as a word , therefore refers to those theories which insist that life came to Earth because ‘ spores ’ were somehow blasted off into space in the hope that they might eventually encounter a life-supporting planet — like Earth . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But I did think that it might just ease the pressure on Saturdays , because , following what erm Betty has said , in fact , as I make it it 's forty-five Saturdays out of fifty-two , and bearing in mind Bank Holiday weekend , Christmas and that sort of thing , it 's virtually every Saturday in the city centre there is a collection . |
| 13 | Hilary Seymour-Strachey had readily agreed , for , though he had not his brother 's absorbing and exclusive interest in money — still , he always had a use for it , and the thought was beginning to occur to him that he might soon have a woman and child to support , in addition to himself . |
| 14 | George Crowninshield was a US senator , one of the stars of that legislature , and these days it was impossible to see his name in a magazine or newspaper without the added speculation that he might soon become the President of the United States . |
| 15 | And of course sometimes during this apprenticeship Boy knew that what he really wanted was not to be taught to be one of us , not to be taught how to be a man at all , but to be reassured that he might somehow remain a boy forever . |
| 16 | When she glanced at him again he looked very grim and she wondered if she should have told Mitch that he might well have a lot of opportunity to photograph Spain — on foot as he walked back to Málaga . |
| 17 | WHILE Craig Chalmers revealed in this paper earlier this week that he might just have a chance of being put on standby for the forthcoming British Lions tour , he is now more upbeat about the prospects of that happening . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , he continued to prevaricate even as the Dec. 20 deadline for registering as a candidate for the New Hampshire contest approached , while indicating that he might yet join the contest for his party 's presidential nomination if he could satisfactorily resolve the current impasse between himself and the state legislature over the budget . |
| 19 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |