Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Companies chopped and changed their holdings , for reasons that might have little to do with the specific nature of the businesses involved . |
| 2 | The possible states preceding the solution-state are taken as destinations and we look for states that might have preceded each of them … and so on back , until we are within range of where we start . |
| 3 | Let us then [ … ] suppose a great increase in the general demand for fish , such for instance as might arise from a disease affecting farm stock , by which meat was made a dear and dangerous food for several years together . |
| 4 | Satisfied that she was safely hidden from view , Benny began swiftly examining the drums for labels that might give her a clue as to what was in them . |
| 5 | Increased versatility of learning would confer great selective advantage and is just the kind of change that might lead to the very rapid evolution of neocortex , so we can add this to global connectivity and greater genetic control as possible causes of the neopallial explosion . |
| 6 | One can therefore make detailed models of objects that might contain black holes and compare the predictions of the models with observations . |
| 7 | She had to discover evidence of Taczek 's confession to the murder of Mills that might survive Nowak 's death . |
| 8 | You say that , but are n't is n't it th the case that the loyalists , the Protestants in Northern Ireland are terrified of any kind of deal that might involve Gerry Adams because that would be as far as they are concerned the ultimate sell out , and hence there is the danger of growing sectarian violence because of fear ? |
| 9 | A short fence prevented the escape of animals that might attempt to swim the river . |
| 10 | But , according to Haksar , what has also to be taken into consideration is the risk of violence that might result from not allowing people to express their feeling and here civil disobedience might be regarded as a safety valve . |
| 11 | The argument also ignores the type of considerations that might determine the present non-use of these sophisticated weapons , such as the fear of complete destruction and total annihilation , rather than a greater degree of ahi sā , or love and concern for others . |
| 12 | a fuzz of light that might have been |
| 13 | It is not intended to place her in such a state of independence as might seduce her to devote her time to the idleness of Poetry … |
| 14 | The main pieces of equipment that might need replacing in a system are the boiler and the radiators . |
| 15 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 16 | Men maintained some contact with their place of origin and might remember it in their wills . |
| 17 | In order to preserve her reputation , a woman was obliged to refrain from most types of work that might bring financial independence . |
| 18 | In the Belfast research programme one of our aims was to use the complex patterns discovered in a live speech community to throw light on the kind of movements that might have taken place in linguistic change in the past . |
| 19 | These examples show that , as in all cases , whether an adjective counts as restrictive or not depends on what exactly is in the mental focus of the speaker on any particular token occasion , and definitely not on any relation of inclusion that might exist between the meanings of the adjective and noun as type elements , such as could be found in the dictionary ( or more accurately between those parts of an external world which might be correlated with the meanings of the adjective and noun ) . |
| 20 | On that Sunday night there should have been a film show for the camp , but the projector was broken and the prisoner who knew the trade of projectionist and might have repaired it was serving his second consecutive fifteen day spell in a SHIzo isolation cell . |
| 21 | We tried to draw out the kind of changes that might help make the whole thing happen . |
| 22 | During your two years in Paris as Colnaghi 's representative , how much has your presence been of importance to selling as opposed to finding more sources of paintings than might have been possible from the London or New York base ? |
| 23 | The sort of problems that might put a patient at risk are restricted mobility ; poor/no vision ; poor hearing ; severe pain , vomiting or diarrhoea ; and serious illness especially if the patient is in a very debilitated state . |
| 24 | I think we are looking at the advantages and disadvantages of erm various types of problems that might occur . |
| 25 | He did n't want to exacerbate what he saw as an existing weakness of his own in that respect , and although he was not censorious of other people , I think he was genuinely quite frightened of it , and at one point in the Arts Lab , when there was quite a lot of speed pills , amphetamines , going around amongst the young people there , he did speak out very strongly one evening against it , saying that he personally did not want anything like that around anything he was closely involved with because he felt that it was not a good thing for people to be speeding and it created the sort of vibes that might end up causing problems . |
| 26 | There is one well-known materialist account of different modes of knowledge that might seem to be useful here in preserving the ‘ mode of knowledge ’ approach against the need for the more drastic behaviouristic alternative . |
| 27 | It suggests not only that prevailing approaches to the subject involve the selection and presentation of knowledge which legitimates the status quo and the omission of that which might challenge it , but also that the very organisation of the curriculum into discrete units militates against the asking of the sorts of questions that might indicate that the world could be different . |
| 28 | The maid fled to her room but could still hear Mrs Putt 's shrill voice until there was a brief , muffled scream , followed by a whole series of sounds that might have been a fight . |
| 29 | HERE are a couple of anecdotes that might tickle your fancy from the World Sevens Qualifying Tournament in Catania , Sicily . |
| 30 | Nevertheless what was being demonstrated in the course of 1945 was that — whatever the feelings of affinity that might exist between Britain and the United States — a substantial relationship could not endure without a strong sense of common interests and above all a sense of exposure to common dangers . |