Example sentences of "might [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other five , West Germany and Italy in particular , feared that this might weaken both NATO and the EEC . |
| 2 | ‘ If I could end up with the Olympic , world , European and Commonwealth golds , I reckon that might make even Carl blink . |
| 3 | The cash figure in the balance sheet might include both capital and operating cash : if a debenture is issued but the resulting cash has not yet been invested in fixed assets , then the cash will perhaps be shown in the cash book — this is capital cash ; if profits were made in the current year , some of these profits might take the form of cash — this is operating cash . |
| 4 | But obviously we know that interviewers simply given the task of producing say 20 interviews might choose only women of a fairly young age-group and we know this is not representative of the population . |
| 5 | That evening I went to see an old friend ( that is , old in years ) in case out of the experience of a long life she might bring forth words of wisdom . |
| 6 | In the wintertime , schedules to France may include a day stop , whereas at peak periods a split duty might comprise both morning and afternoon round-trips to Dinard from Guernsey , for example . |
| 7 | Whereas a consumer using electricity only for lighting , an iron , a radio and a vacuum cleaner might use under 300kWh a year , the addition of one heavy current-using appliance like an immersion water heater or a cooker would more than quadruple that basic demand . |
| 8 | The best season for an eastwards voyage was already past , though it was just possible that we might run far north and cross in the high latitudes where , even in summer , we could expect fog , rain and cold . |
| 9 | She might not be able to produce the required number of sons or she might produce only daughters or she might even be childless . |
| 10 | in , what you might call quite years |
| 11 | Some time later they might add about $1 billion to Zeneca 's annual sales . |
| 12 | This was specified because such descriptions might reflect only recruitment of previous knowledge about the junction . |
| 13 | The vitality of a partnership will depend not only upon its perceived value but on its variety , and ideally it might involve both students and staff in different activities . |
| 14 | A random sample of herds might indicate that 40% of them are grazing on marginal land ; but if animals were the unit of study we might find only 20% of animals to be on marginal grazing , i.e. the 40% of herds are the smaller ones accounting for only 20% of the cattle . |
| 15 | Soft answer , she felt , might turn away wrath — whatever it was that was making her mother grumpy . |