Example sentences of "[adj] it might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He still does n't know how much more smashing it might have been . |
| 2 | Can this be because London Transport was afraid it might give passengers ideas ? |
| 3 | Each man was struggling to fill the hollow that had opened inside him , to bridge it over with some kind of reasonable structure while saying nothing about it as though afraid it might crumble if it was exposed to the light . |
| 4 | She turned her head away , afraid it might show on her face . |
| 5 | I was afraid it might rain for Christmas . ’ |
| 6 | I could n't let him know the strength of my feelings — I was afraid it might frighten him off . |
| 7 | I was afraid it might come out that we 'd got a cut as well . |
| 8 | It is something of a family tendency to think everything is enormously exciting no matter how ordinary it might appear to others . |
| 9 | Again he heard the strong Irish voice ring out — ‘ Did ye get the little bottles ? ’ — and knew that however cosy it might seem in imagination he would never be one of the party hurried through the customs to the English or Irish or Scottish College . |
| 10 | At dusk the clouds over Manhattan , which had threatened snow all day , cleared and revealed a pristine sky , its colour so ambiguous it might have fuelled a philosophical debate as to the nature of the blue . |
| 11 | I mean enormous it might have even been fi but it , it had bedrooms and bathrooms and |
| 12 | If he had looked ashamed it might have been easier to bear . |
| 13 | If the resultant hollow in the neck is really severe it might require a form of heat treatment to rectify the situation . |
| 14 | Regalia of such splendour symbolized Catherine 's European standing as a despot , a species which however benevolent it might declare itself was destined for a short life . |
| 15 | Weber actually recognized that the distinction between politics and administration can not withstand philosophical scrutiny : ‘ Every problem no matter how technical it might seem , can assume political significance and its solution can be decisively influenced by political considerations ’ ( Diamant , 1963 , p. 85 ) . |
| 16 | At its most absurd it might mean that companies could be sued for sending letters to the wrong address . |
| 17 | To the uninitiated it might seem that the shunters are engaged in a game of hide-and-seek with the trucks ; they appear to scatter them all over the yard , as if their object were to separate many of them as completely as possible . |
| 18 | Vague information was worse than none at all as far as we were concerned , as we were obliged to do something about it , however hopeless it might seem . |
| 19 | Needless to say , I did n't find this remark helpful , however well-intentioned it might have been . |
| 20 | If he 'd been a Sikh it might have been different . |
| 21 | Crazy , impulsive , illogical it might have been , but somewhere deep inside there 'd been a feeling of inevitability about it … |
| 22 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
| 23 | Also the stronger the solution of minerals and salts in your bathwater , the more moisture your skin loses , however delightful it might make you feel to bathe in bubbles . |
| 24 | That 's why we 're not really rushing into this , however precipitate it might seem on the surface . ’ |
| 25 | Mind you a week wo n't be too bad it might do them good might n't it ? |
| 26 | Schmidt waited to see how bad it would be to begin with — a gauge of how bad it might become . |
| 27 | And however silly it might sound to take so slight a fragment of the story , the possibility of doing so says perhaps as much about the richness of the opera as it does about the interests of the listener . |