Example sentences of "might [adv] [vb infin] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more experienced dealers guessed it might paradoxically refer to a disaster on the horizon , but kept their thoughts from clients . |
| 2 | Much as I might personally long for a world where sun and moon danced together and all the trees clapped their hands , it remained intangible . |
| 3 | you might only lose about a paragraph of work |
| 4 | During the course of the day the Bank 's objective will be to provide enough assistance to the money market ( through outright bill operations and the other techniques discussed below ) to relieve the overall expected shortage , but purchases of bills by the Bank at the early rounds of assistance during the course of the day might only account for a small proportion of the overall assistance provided , for four main reasons . |
| 5 | Classify at present as an error indicating difficulties one might normally expect with a younger child , or particularly weak spellers of this age . |
| 6 | When preparing his food , you should think in terms of providing a ‘ finger buffet ’ with foods you might normally eat with a knife and fork . |
| 7 | You might just get to a goal that is difficult to master , or you could find that when you are about half-way through your goals you get stuck and can go no further . |
| 8 | You might just pop to a corner shop to buy some chocolate and som box of matches , some sweets a magazine , a newspaper . |
| 9 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 10 | The Law Society 's rules of professional conduct do provide exemptions for this , but even so , a conveyancer should not be too quick to use those exemptions if acting for both sides might conceivably lead to a compromise or a difficult situation . |
| 11 | It was clear , however , that an unwise or ill-advised Monarch might conceivably act in a manner which could be construed as partial , in that it appeared to reflect a royal preference for one particular group within the party . |
| 12 | ‘ If I might possibly butt in a moment … |
| 13 | ‘ The first canvases might possibly look like a beginner 's ’ . |
| 14 | Secretly , I might still yearn for a bumper-sized twelve-inch member . |
| 15 | So Ronny might still go for a trial at Leeds — he is no Neil Ruddock type ; more of playing defender . |
| 16 | For even taking into account my employer 's generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ , the costs of such a trip might still come to a surprising amount considering such matters as accommodation , meals , and any small snacks I might partake of on my way . |
| 17 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 18 | The health of an eight year old diabetic child must , for example , be judged by reference to the standard one might reasonably expect of a child of that age with diabetes and not a healthy eight year old . |
| 19 | The research findings indicate that many authorities have a long way to go before their procedures come close to what one might reasonably describe as a partnership with parents . |
| 20 | For example , one might reasonably take as a starting point the observation that the characteristic occupations of men and of women are distinctly different , as are the kinds of relationships with co-employees associated with them . |
| 21 | Bloch includes in the measurement of style " transitional probability " , the probability that some form X will be followed by another form Y ; this opens the door to an infinity of combinations of stylistic factors that might reasonably enter into a definition of a style . |
| 22 | The suggestion offered earlier in this chapter was that pre-exposure to a stimulus , as well as allowing certain associations to be formed , might also result in a loss of associability . |
| 23 | It was seen as an unveiled hint of royal displeasure at Scots separatists ( the elaborate investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales , at a time when Welsh nationalism was acquiring an increasingly strident tone , had been intended to have a similar impact ) but it might also serve as a text for all the concerns of the monarchy . |
| 24 | The accord might also act as a floor to wages during the recession . |
| 25 | Shils wrote with confidence of the universal value of this centre-periphery model , in a way which might now appear as a paean to a particular vision of the American way of politics : |
| 26 | ‘ An old flame , perhaps , ’ suggested Dorothea who , often an unthinking woman , felt vaguely that the afternoon might now benefit from a stroke of the unlikely . |
| 27 | This does not mean that all these methods should be banned : on the contrary — banning contraception might simply lead to a sudden rise in both abortion and childbirth , both of which are likely to be at least as dangerous for women 's health in a poor country . |
| 28 | Mungo Stone had the sensation that instead of threading on to the horizon , at any moment the ever-narrowing rails might simply come to a dead end among the trees . |
| 29 | ‘ In the present spirit of the age , ’ Surtees replied with a sidelong glance at Catherine , ‘ more generous provision from the public purse might even lead to a proliferation of bastardy . |
| 30 | It might even drift towards a Scandinavian-style peripheral role in Nato as well as distancing itself from the EEC . |