Example sentences of "they might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pupils are encouraged to consider how they might feel if they were carrying the virus and how they might care for people with HIV/AIDS , especially those with unfamiliar lifestyles . |
| 2 | Pupils are encouraged to consider how they might feel if they were carrying the virus and how they might care for people with HIV/AIDS , especially those with unfamiliar lifestyles . |
| 3 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 4 | Some publications are less impartial than they might appear , erring on the side of generosity . |
| 5 | Occasionally auctions contain items so interesting that critics in newspapers comment on their quality , not just the prices they might fetch . |
| 6 | Glasser thunders on : ‘ Both Lilian and Mary invested too much emotional capital in their opposition to father , whose influence naturally remained dominant , try as they might to escape ; and this imbalance distorted their view of relationships and of the world . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , those who most seem to be themselves appear to me people impersonating what they think they might like to be , believe they ought to be , or wish to be taken to be by whoever is setting standards . |
| 8 | This was generally understood by the media to mean that the hierarchy would not oppose the introduction of divorce in a future united Ireland , indeed that they might be prepared to budge on the issue even now . |
| 9 | France and England never pulled together , for all they might find themselves on the same side . ’ |
| 10 | I honestly had no idea of what they might be thinking or what to make of it myself . |
| 11 | The whys and wherefores of these procedures need to be explained to students , otherwise they might conclude that proper parking is not really important and that it is alright to leave a glider with either wing down . |
| 12 | Although considerable effort has been made to develop an automatic release for the towplane , the problems are not as simple as they might at first seem and so far no really satisfactory technical answer has been found . |
| 13 | Motability can provide the names of professional organisations who can assess the needs of the disabled person and advise them whether or not they are capable of driving and what sort of car and adaptations they might need . |
| 14 | at present good recruits often have to be chased to Bramshill [ on the lengthy command courses ] , because chief constables are not anxious to spare able men , and officers themselves are reluctant to be separated from their families and homes , as well as having a fear that they might lose from being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ for promotion . |
| 15 | Over the years I watched as senior officers struggled to come to terms with our bizarre presence , which overcame any respect they might have had for our practical mastery of dealing with a world they were wary of . |
| 16 | The way ‘ civilisations ’ had to make their mark , just in case they might disappear without trace . |
| 17 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 18 | ‘ They might get you anyway . |
| 19 | The government put this here after ‘ Forty-six because they wanted one spot of safety in a wilderness of hatred , and because they thought they might as well get some good of this country once they 'd ruined it . |
| 20 | They might turn west along the strath and not … |
| 21 | They might have been like this for three centuries , and could be for three centuries more . |
| 22 | Smugglers , escaped convicts , drenched fishermen , or they might have been just watching the storm , voyeuristically curious to see a boat break up in choppy water . |
| 23 | And for those who say that some pubs are unsuitable for children because they might have some evil influence , then is n't it about time those pubs were cleaned up ? |
| 24 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 25 | In his chagrin he wandered up on to Moel Siabod above his home , where a clump of purple flowers amongst the grey rocks of the mountain caught his eye , just as they might that of some solitary wanderer today . |
| 26 | The conviction carried by how things are in his fiction can not be separated from the sense that they might be otherwise . |
| 27 | Freudians , like Marxists , can not step outside their own forms of thought to admit that they might be wrong ( unless , like Crews , they undergo a deconversion ) . |
| 28 | Their minds are somehow not right for it ; in some other discipline they might have performed quite respectably . |
| 29 | They might work in the graduate school of a good American university , where a variety of methods already abounds . |
| 30 | If novels are to be studied as part of an exclusive course , they might be better located in Cultural Studies . |