Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh adv] [pron] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when they were sitting at the oval table in the dining-room , eating Mrs Purry 's admirable steak and kidney pudding and drinking a full-bodied Burgundy , Penelope found herself next to Rupert , who talked very pleasantly about Italy , remembering that Penelope was shortly to visit Rome with the parish party , and told her of things she ought to see and restaurants where she might eat . |
| 2 | For example , in In re Tucker ( R. C. ) ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Tucker ( K. R. ) [ 1990 ] Ch. 148 , where the application of the Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 principle was urged , this court declined to construe the words ‘ any person ’ in section 25 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as embracing British subjects wherever they might be , and held that the power given to the court by that section to summon persons before it was even more limited and extended only to persons who were available to be served in England . |
| 3 | Show you areas where you might benefit from further training , that 'll be , brum , brum , get yourself on a training course , yes ? and also we 're producing a which comes out in early February on training , which will list to all your managers everything that we do in training . |
| 4 | But tell me , can you think of circumstances where one might get drunk to reduce pain ? |
| 5 | An article was published in the spring 1987 edition of CAB News , the magazine of the CAB service , explaining to bureau workers how they might be more sensitive to the hearing impaired . |
| 6 | A and and to say twenty days when somebody might need much more than that , somebody might need |
| 7 | However , for occasional days when you might find yourself caught out with no time or ingredients ( try to plan ahead to avoid this : you can easily carry Fibre-Filler with you in a plastic bag in your handbag ! ) we have listed a few alternative very high-fibre breakfasts in The F-Plan Meals . |
| 8 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 9 | The Tables remove the need to list ‘ common subdivisions ’ in each of the many places where they might be applied ; indeed , one list suffices for applications with respect to many different subjects . |
| 10 | She argues that the rise in illegitimacy occurs in none of the places where we might have expected it if Shorter 's hypothesis of the sexual revolution were correct . |
| 11 | ‘ There are a few places where we might meet one such … . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Then why could we never go out together to places where we might be seen and recognised after we became lovers ? ’ she demanded scornfully . |
| 13 | She was n't allowed in crowded places where there might be germs . |
| 14 | Mr Makepeace , who dreaded public places where he might meet the boys of Burleigh , sat longer than any , pretending to go through the disgracefully scrappy mathematics homework that his classes saw fit to throw his way . |
| 15 | Below are a list of places where you might see Japlish written , and two alternatives for what you might see there . |
| 16 | They 're descriptive , any other ideas why I might have rung them , erm , ringed them ? |
| 17 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 18 | Marginally quick-tempered , he sees little sense in having to field a barrage of questions when he might feel that his score tells its own story . |
| 19 | Valuable time can be wasted in trying every tlephone extension in the rooms where they might be working , or in sending another member of staff to search for them . |
| 20 | As has been suggested by earlier speakers , please pass it on through schools , colleges wherever you might be active within the movement , or through children in local schools . |
| 21 | She should be introduced with an air of pride and affection to your friends and neighbours if she does not know them already , accompanied to all the places locally which will be of special interest to her in the future : the public library , the shopping centre , the best places to go for morning coffee , and any small parks where she might like to walk or sit in the fine weather . |
| 22 | But then there is one lounge suit , passed on to me in 1931 or 1932 by Sir Edward Blair — practically brand new at the time and almost a perfect fit — which might well be appropriate for evenings in the lounge or dining room of any guest houses where I might lodge . |
| 23 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 24 | In some classes friendship groups are very productive , but there are times when you might want to keep certain children apart because they frequently distract each other , or maybe you want to make sure that boys and girls work together . |
| 25 | Any other times when you might issue one ? |
| 26 | Andy 's a real mate he just kept saying straight heads er for all the times when I might have said oh , I could n't really talk to some people last night and he 'd say what you mean straight heads ? he 's right . |
| 27 | There are a number of reasons why we might want to omit the subject . |
| 28 | Of course the parallel between ontogeny and phylogeny can not be carried the whole way through — prehistoric human beings did not look like newborn babies — but there are various reasons why we might expect the early stages of embryonic development to have some relation to the early stages of our evolution . |
| 29 | Now , there are good reasons why we might want to do that , but in economic terms you 'll reduce the net welfare of the economy , or the world simply because you 're diverting resources away from efficient modes of production into inefficient modes of production . |
| 30 | Then list three reasons why they might have the opposite reaction . |