Example sentences of "might [verb] [conj] the [noun sg] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unwary reader might think that the book is a history of the changes in Western art , whereas it is in fact only a selection of some changes . |
| 2 | If one had reason to contribute only a little to the scheme this might show that the scheme is unjustifiable since it requires greater sacrifice than can be justified . |
| 3 | One might claim that the signer is simply being flexible . |
| 4 | We might suggest that the speaker is talking about a joke or a prank . |
| 5 | You might discover that the street is used as a short-cut by commuters . |
| 6 | This might happen because the writer is tired , because he or she wants to get the writing over and done with ; but the fundamental reason seems to be that the writer has broken contact with the feeling that originally made him or her want to write the story or poem . |
| 7 | This position helps prevent the excessive trunk activity which might happen when the patient is standing erect , and it helps the patient to work from the very lowest part of the back , at the pelvis . |
| 8 | However , such a rule might mean that the organization is not taking full advantage of varying credit periods . |
| 9 | Some scientifically-minded people might agree that the foregoing is not unreasonable because mathematics has a way of intruding into human affairs whether we like it or not . |
| 10 | If editors and programme-makers and journalists were more aware of their legal rights , and more courageous in calling the lawyers ' bluff , they might find that the law is not quite the ass it sometimes appears . |
| 11 | We might say that the narrator is being fucked by the same in the position of the other — a formulation intentionally ambiguous as to who exactly is in the position of the other , since it is both : the narrator is in the position of the woman being fucked by the other of woman ( man ) . |
| 12 | From a rhetorical perspective one might say that the monarchy is not defended in terms of its own monarchical common-places , but in terms of other common-places . |
| 13 | ‘ Poetry begins , I dare say , with a savage beating a drum in a jungle , and it retains that essential of percussion and rhythm ; hyperbolically one might say that the poet is older than other human beings … |