Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a muddled way , he expected that she might fall into his arms , that he would be able to comfort her and that one thing would lead to another ; and so absorbed had he become in the effect Sam 's death would have on his own affairs , that he had forgotten that it might have some other effect on Martha 's . |
| 2 | Wallace 's goal looked like it might have got a deflection . |
| 3 | The conference was assured that truly ‘ intelligent ’ machines would come , It was conceded that it might take a few hundred years . |
| 4 | This has to be suggested to her with some care , without giving her the impression that you think her sudden collapse into illness is in any way imminent or inevitable ; and it should not be suggested at all if it is felt that it might upset or frighten her . |
| 5 | Oh I should get that done because it might do something . |
| 6 | The Arts Council is holding a special meeting in November to discuss the funding crisis ; it is thought that it might decide to cut the number of bodies receiving grant if more government money is not forthcoming . |
| 7 | The evaluators found that the guide was less well used that it might have been and consider ways in which a guide might fit into the ‘ socially-oriented ’ structure of the training year . |
| 8 | It can be seen that as the lexicon size increases , more candidate words are allowable , so sometimes the inverted look-up is not used when it might have found the correct word . |
| 9 | To Cnut and some of his contemporaries this world still mattered , and evidence of this has been found where it might have been least expected . |
| 10 | Terrified that it might show on her face , she quickly turned away . |
| 11 | Earlier in March the UK government had indicated that it might resume the forced repatriation of boat people from Hong Kong , which it had begun in December 1989 but suspended soon afterwards [ see pp. 37121-2 ] . |
| 12 | She does n't want to be pictured because it might interfere with her observation work . |
| 13 | By late March only seven of a reported 571 oil well fires had been capped and it was estimated that it might take a further three years to extinguish all the fires . |
| 14 | He told us to hurry back home after the picture had finished because it might get foggy later . |
| 15 | The development , not always as carefully planned as it might have been , of two sets of responsibilities — pastoral and academic — obviously needed to be integrated if confusion and conflict were to be avoided . |
| 16 | Readers have suggested that it might have been more profitable to give more space to fewer sorts of vegetable , but that would have been something of a soft option . |
| 17 | From the first moments , when my brothers and I stood there incredulous as Blyth screamed and jumped and tugged at his leg , to the tearful farewell of Blyth 's parents and Diggs taking statements ( a bit even appeared in the Inverness Courier which was picked up for its curiosity value by a couple of the Fleet Street rags ) , not one person even suggested that it might have been anything other than a tragic and slightly macabre accident . |