Example sentences of "might [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when he went in mum started crying she said Lyn he ai n't coming back he ai n't coming back I said he might mum , he 's just might so anyway that was , at one o'clock he went down , quarter past five , ring , we kept saying can you ring and see if , and they rung said be out the operating theatre to tell us how far they 'd got and what was happening , he 's had four units of blood |
| 2 | Er we have looked to supplement national e information by our local knowledge specifically I might instance one er where we have made a survey of the institutions which is one source of er possible difference between er people looking at the situation locally and those from further afield . |
| 3 | Why might sentencers — judges and magistrates — treat middle-class , business criminals more leniently than those convicted of more ‘ conventional ’ crimes ? |
| 4 | Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ? |
| 5 | Power did count in the end , though , for try as she might Mills could not contain the might of Italy 's Emanuela Pierantozzi , the European champion , who stood a head taller and reached over with a powerful grip . |
| 6 | You 're still working your strategy carefully to move down the field , using your back row , using your tight scrummage skills , using your three-quarters to gain some ground , and eventually you might outmanoeuvre the opposition defence and score . |
| 7 | So on 29 October 1955 Fisher recommended to the prime minister that Bell be asked to move to York because he was the biggest person in sight and — despite his age — ‘ he might tide over for five or six years ’ ; and that Ramsey be invited to go to London , because that huge see would ‘ respond to his commanding ability ’ . |
| 8 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 9 | How might agriculture be affected ? |
| 10 | GIBSON Johnny Smith single , superb instrument , £2,500 ono , might part exchange . |
| 11 | GIBSON Johnny Smith single pickup jazz guitar , superb instrument , £2,500 ono , might part exchange . |
| 12 | There might be- ’ |
| 13 | Only in the case of engagements lasting for a single day or less , and involving people with whom the organisation does not expect to have further contact in the near future , might payment be made without any deductions . |
| 14 | and , and I was wondering if that might kind of |
| 15 | Under different circumstances , might Taggart have worked if set in Edinburgh ? |
| 16 | Our radical objector maintains about what we take to have been the causal circumstance that it might riot have been followed by the smell , and moreover that this would not have resulted from the absence of some further condition . |
| 17 | Then too OSF and UI might divvy up the turf with UI handling requirements and technology selection and OSF doing development . |
| 18 | What might schools ask me to do ? |
| 19 | Nonetheless , might neurobiologists in general , and memory researchers in particular , not gain something by concentrating on a limited number of model systems that everyone could agree on ? |
| 20 | ‘ They might hiv killed the snapper , ’ she said . |
| 21 | ‘ But they might hiv worn gloves . ’ |
| 22 | Might Hungary and Poland be ’ Finlandised ’ or ’ Austrianised ’ ? |
| 23 | Satisfied that it contained nothing which might distress the girl , she read aloud : |
| 24 | People with mental disorder can not act like consumers in the ordinary sense of the word because of the nature of their problems — they can not , for example , forsake the NHS for another service as they might McDonalds for Burger King — but we can , nevertheless , devise ways of listening to what they have to say and ensuring their voices are heard . |
| 25 | Might Johnny get seriously vicious , if pushed too far ? |
| 26 | For example : — a distribution manager might debrief a distribution simulation , — a planner might participate in a public enquiry on land development , — a trade unionist might participate in a health and safety audit in a science laboratory . |
| 27 | It might fracture the earth 's crust , with cataclysmic results . |
| 28 | On the other hand , radio is still used for diversity of routing or for emergency circuits , particularly in tricky terrain or earthquake-prone zones where optical fibre circuits might fracture . |
| 29 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 30 | By the time the work had finished two internal walls had been completely destroyed and Crook took the decision to set fire to the flat in the hope Langbaurgh Council , which owns the block , might rehouse him . |