Example sentences of "might [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that 94% of all items issued fell into the first two categories , and required no repair ( although 24% were in a well-used condition and might eventually require some attention ) , while only 6% fell into the last three categories and were in need of repair . |
| 2 | Yet a judicious use of some survey courses might paradoxically allow more depth in others . |
| 3 | For as long as they continue they are the issue , rather than a grievance for which many people might instinctively have some sympathy . |
| 4 | He hoped some of the Fists might perhaps behold that gesture with joy . |
| 5 | He 's a good guide as to how to behave during barren times and , while I accept their temperaments are chalk and cheese , he might just talk some sense into Wright . |
| 6 | If you waste his time he 'll roast you , if you do n't you might just get that job . |
| 7 | Oh I think I might just put some petrol in over there . |
| 8 | He also referred to provisions in the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 relating to administrative receivers , and to many other provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 and in the Companies Act 1985 which might conceivably have some bearing on this question . |
| 9 | If it were true that the private sector uses resources more productively than the public sector , the transfer of resources might directly produce more output . |
| 10 | And then — with final , frightening clarity — what inward turbulence of her own soul might possibly explain this sense of Madcap Agnew 's unrequited presence in the Lodge ? |
| 11 | ‘ A headstrong and impressionable eighteen-year-old looking for adventure might possibly win some sympathy from a judge with daughters of his own . |
| 12 | Even then , you might still finish each day feeling guilty about the many chores which inevitably remain undone . |
| 13 | I realised that life might still hold some pleasure , if not happiness . |
| 14 | This advice , suited to small craft-masters or farmers , might still make some sense in the moderately small counting houses of even quite large bankers and merchants , and remained valid in as much as instruction was an essential aspect of management in newly industrialising countries . |
| 15 | The incident shows that force might still play some part in the creation of marriage alliances in the eleventh century . |
| 16 | Granted the intriguing premise , one might reasonably expect some attempt to probe the morality of a privatised police force , and of a society which allows someone like Kuffs to buy and use firearms as casually as he does here , but no . |
| 17 | So you might reasonably suppose that ash is overdone in cheaper brands of pond food : and who has money to burn ? |
| 18 | It might also include more state help in opening up foreign markets . |
| 19 | This might mean that the parish boundary was defined by later prehistory at least , but it might also indicate that definition occurred later using a well-defined pre-existing feature . |
| 20 | Allan Border might also have few cricket days left , but he and his team can , like Waddy 's , sow much goodwill and good work in an isolated cricket outpost this month . |
| 21 | More law might often mean more liberty . |
| 22 | As regards the condition relating to the place of operation , direction and control of the vessel , the applicants in the main proceedings stated in the first place that the flag state might legitimately require some measure of onshore representation in order to ensure that the authorities of that state had some method of tracing the responsibility of the operator . |
| 23 | Why , we might even start another family ! ’ |
| 24 | She might even attain that future . |
| 25 | If he pacifies him skilfully enough , he might even make another sale on his colleague 's behalf . |
| 26 | You may need a lot of confidence a lot of support and you might even need some help looking after your children if they 're quite young . |
| 27 | well that 's right , in fact he might even need more sand |
| 28 | Evidence suggests the changes have a minimal effect and in some cases might even cause more damage , the report says . |
| 29 | We might even get some shooting . ’ |
| 30 | It might also be argued that this provision of free sterile needles might even encourage some drug users to experiment or continue with intravenous use . |