Example sentences of "[vb -s] that [pers pn] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are even rare cases when the employer accepts that you might be innocent and yet is entitled to dismiss you . |
| 2 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 3 | As far as they have been able to check , they believe that they are the only two Scottish CAs in partnership together in Australia , but we would be interested in hearing from anyone who thinks that they might have a claim to that title . |
| 4 | " My mother thinks that I might fall in love . " |
| 5 | Odd-Knut thinks that it might be best to make a night trip with empty sledges , returning to the camp , especially as a friend of his is likely to arrive for the night . |
| 6 | Only from the 1760s and 1770s onwards were there signs that it might be achieved . |
| 7 | It should also indicate the warning signs that you might look for such as : changed job frequently in the last five years , no sense of humour , over concerned with financial rewards . |
| 8 | Suppose he says that we might just as well pray to ‘ Our Mother which art in Heaven ’ … . |
| 9 | He says that I might not need to get it right ? |
| 10 | He says that I might not need to get it , right , because , if , he can only tell half my blood . |
| 11 | Fossils fascinate him too , and he says that he might even look to a career in palaeontology . |
| 12 | It also asks customers to refrain from talking to the press about Pentium-based machines or product prices until May 20 and warns that it might cut off supplies of the new chip to transgressors . |
| 13 | And they must do that as the possibility increases that they might be sucked into a wider Balkans war . |
| 14 | Among the possible explanations , Dr Darnell states that he might have returned to his own room . |
| 15 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 16 | Mr Brown got the Blackpool conference off to a storming start , brushing aside fears that it might be distracted by Euro rebel Bryan Gould 's resignation from John Smith 's top team . |
| 17 | A week later , magistrates gave him bail , despite police fears that he might commit further offences . |
| 18 | In the faintest of whispers the parents try to give comfort , try to quieten : for a moment it seems that they might even have to stifle . |
| 19 | It seems that it might take a great deal of commitment and determination to drag yourself out in the pouring rain or snow , until you think about how much you miss your husband when you can not even touch him for nearly two weeks . |
| 20 | It also seems that it might be helpful if teachers were aware of those among their pupils with particularly unsupportive home lives , that is , with few sources outside school from which they might derive a sense of their own value . |
| 21 | Elizabeth At this time of year , there is more leftover food than usual , so do you have any general hints that you might offer ? |
| 22 | Rolle also hints that he might have been damaged in some way . |
| 23 | Alfieri senses that he might be becoming attracted to her , and that this is the root of the problem . |
| 24 | In order to damp down monarchist hopes that it might now be possible to pressure him into resigning , Franco wrote to Don Juan on 2 December 1954 , telling him that power would not be transferred in Franco 's lifetime and that his successor would be bound by the guiding principles of the regime set up in 1939 . |
| 25 | Andy Roxburgh , who knows he will face the Brazilians in the World Cup next summer , and Bobby Robson , who suspects that he might , were reminded of Brazil 's flair but had to take their finishing on trust until Careca won the game with a 54th minute header . |
| 26 | Had Weller been present , one suspects that he might have put Lydia Mordkovitch , violin soloist in the Mendelssohn concerto , over his knee . |
| 27 | Optimistic economists are suggesting that the surge in shares and the increase in High Street retail sales indicates that we might finally be emerging from the recession . |
| 28 | Also I mean that means that you might you know maybe Jan will say yeah okay as long as you you know . |
| 29 | The architect owner admits that it might have been better to regard the converted building primarily as a house and to order priorities for the location and constructional ‘ envelopes ’ of rooms accordingly . |
| 30 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |