Example sentences of "might [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 2 | They might make quite a thing of it . |
| 3 | We should not overlook the possibility of attracting professional musicians into church music , and the teaching profession in particular contains people who might need only a little persuasion to help , at least on an occasional basis . |
| 4 | Then he named them , along with Liverpool 's Rob Jones and still injured John Barnes , as the five he believed might embellish further an encouraging performance by a Paul Gascoigne-inspired England . |
| 5 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 6 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
| 7 | you you , absolutely , we 'd go on forever and ever and ever and er , therefore , I I , I withdraw all of that stuff but , in a way I feel that it would be helpful for parents , probably who have n't seen this information and might like maybe a sample |
| 8 | It might take just a decision for St Albans oldest of the country by having changed the word received to . |
| 9 | Politicians , uncomfortable in the spotlight , publicly back some sort of reform package that might take away a few of their perks . |
| 10 | So you might call together a group who have difficulty with the single-double problem and offer them : linning grining frumy bolly etc . |
| 11 | A straightforward mistake might have just a serious an effect . |
| 12 | Er and that is , that is one of the problems within the flats , that having got , once got into the complex you might have quite a long way to go before you actually find where you 're going . |
| 13 | A species , as a succession of organisms produced sexually , might have only a limited total lifetime , Darwin argued ; just as a succession of apple trees propagated by grafts was supposed to last only so long before degenerating and dying as if it were merely the extension of a single limited life . |
| 14 | He pointed out that modifying the credit acquisition policies might have only a minimal effect , since most of the losses were from cases accepted some time ago . |
| 15 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 16 | because they might have only a few , whereas the others have got thousands on them . |
| 17 | Officers seemed to gain easier exemption from building regulations and from restrictions on landlordism ; their attempts to influence judges in cases in which they might have only an indirect interest were also reported , in private , by judges . |
| 18 | Children who never went to school at all would pick up quite a lot of immediately useful knowledge ; from television and radio , moreover , they might acquire quite a lot of not obviously useful , relatively esoteric bits of information , about history , for example , or natural history . |
| 19 | ‘ Looks as if she might harbour quite a temper there . ’ |
| 20 | You might exhibit quite a lot of judging behaviour , but it feels peculiar to you an and you know it 's an effort . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I might go upstream a bit and wash off some of this dirt , ’ she said evenly , fingering her hair distastefully . |
| 22 | Now at the moment that might seem quite a good idea , we have a very right-wing Tory government and Europe seems very reasonable . |
| 23 | ‘ Only I think they might get just a bit mixed up . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I might get only an hour , or perhaps only half a game from him . |
| 25 | You you might get quite a nasty shock . |
| 26 | With equal conviction a neighbouring headteacher might adopt quite a different approach — arguing that only by building a curriculum and a school day around the child can learning be effective and meaningful . |
| 27 | For example , the £750 million outstanding on credit cards might represent only a few weeks ' purchases . |
| 28 | The empire , at least in Africa , was thought likely to outlast the century , not least by socialist ministers ; and it was imagined that the Marshall Plan , paid off by the end of 1950 , might represent only a brief and passing reliance on the economy of the United States . |
| 29 | In expressing that objection , other contemporaries were undoubtedly swayed by the realization that Lyell 's axiom would so greatly increase the age of the earth that it might threaten even a generous reading of Genesis . |
| 30 | Accordingly , the difference between the groups on the generalization test might reflect only a difference in the amount of associative strength acquired in the aversive conditioning phase . |