Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [adv] [vb infin] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Institutions might even consider sanctions : museums could refuse to lend to an exhibition if the public body behind it is falling down in its conservation duties ( a recent likely candidate for boycotting would have been the Titian exhibition in Venice in 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) . |
| 3 | Given that cases involving the exercise of public functions might also raise issues of private law , it should be made clear that the court hearing an application under public law procedure is to decide all issues raised by the case , whether of public law or private law . |
| 4 | As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time . |
| 5 | The extent to which such rights might justifiably embrace ideas unrelated to government or public affairs , ideas of no value at all , or cloaked in images of a sexual or violent nature , has long exercised the finest minds not only in American jurisprudence , but in Europe and the Commonwealth as well . |
| 6 | Britain 's unrecycled recyclables might then join Germany 's on a world tour in search of ever-scarcer buyers . |
| 7 | Prior to World War I , those interested in child and maternal welfare had urged that nurseries might both improve child welfare and set an example to mothers . |
| 8 | It should be noted , however , that a concern for certainty and a single set of parent figures might also imply support for a position of minimal state intervention . |
| 9 | Other recent flotations might just represent companies ' taking advantage of windows through which to de-gear , rather than waiting for the exits that offer the optimum long-term return . |
| 10 | Because cadherins are expressed in uninflamed epidermis and are prominently involved in interactions between KC , we reasoned that cadherins might also mediate adhesion of LC to KC . |
| 11 | Pupils with temporary Problems might also include Traveller children affected by discontinuity of schooling . |
| 12 | If Unit Trust Managers maintained the level of risk ( p ) then investors might reasonably use Unit Trusts as a mechanism for buying into an effectively diversified portfolio . |
| 13 | The Moroccan said that athletes might still take drugs if they thought being caught would mean only a temporary ban . |
| 14 | However , wind and storms might also upset Re 's boat , so having fulfilled his purpose Seth chased away and the solar barque sailed majestically onwards . |
| 15 | Someone suggested the Mayor of St Louis , Missouri , thinking that the consonance of names might perhaps evoke sympathy . |
| 16 | There were other unsubstantiated reports , however , that Cali cartel leaders might also take advantage of the government 's surrender offer . |
| 17 | The steady erosion from astronomical to merely high has at least been good for morale : a further cut after the holidays might just jolly people into voting Tory if there were to be an autumn election . |
| 18 | Results from specific automatic challenges might better direct therapy . |
| 19 | In the example here it might plausibly be supposed that the age of the pupils might well influence attainment or otherwise modify the effect of the causal factor . |
| 20 | Thiazide diuretic agents might adversely influence carbohydrate metabolism in several ways . |
| 21 | Such employees might well have claims for compensation against the UK government for defective implementation of the Directive , if they can show that , had the restriction not been included in the Regulations , their claim would have succeeded . |
| 22 | The similarity in IgG subclass proportions between healthy and affected ulcerative colitis twins might also reflect stimulation by a particular antigen(s) . |