Example sentences of "might [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intensity of their feeling was due not just to fear that the landed interest might suffer but to the affront caused to a governing class centred on London and the Home Counties by the notion that those living in the provinces might prefer a degree of local autonomy . |
| 2 | He might prefer a building society deposit or a National Savings instrument or government bonds or equities . |
| 3 | Third , because there is reason to suspect that the Prime Minister herself might prefer a devaluation to further expensive and , probably , futile attempts to ‘ buck the markets ’ by penalising her heartland constituency of home owners . |
| 4 | One might prefer a priest or minister and sometimes retired clergy have both the experience and time for this sort of ministry . |
| 5 | If it is new and unfamiliar , you might experience a sense of physical pleasure . |
| 6 | So they might design their own tattoo or they might design a fairground erm frontage , based on what they 've seen years ago |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you might fancy a drink , ’ he said , without preamble . |
| 8 | Any of us might torture a stranger , even a friend , she says , if we are told to . |
| 9 | ‘ But do n't start getting any ideas that she might throw a fit of jealousy . |
| 10 | Some small groups within lineages might build a shrine at the burial place of a revered grandfather , call him sidi ( lord ) , and visit the shrine in a group from time to time . |
| 11 | Until a few weeks ago she had been scarcely aware of him except as a friendly and familiar face in class ; but now , now she was very much aware of him — and he was very definitely aware of her ; much to Erika 's embarrassment sitting with her and Rosa at lunch , at the next desk in class , asking her out to the cinema and even , to Erika 's amazement and , she suspected , his own , offering to help Paul with his homework — in the Nordern home , that is — an offer declined both by Erika and Paul , although Paul did corner Fritz in school and suggest to him that if he actually did the homework then he , Paul , would further his , Fritz 's , courtship of Erika ; Paul being shrewd enough to guess the motive behind Fritz 's philanthropic gesture even though the square on the hypotenuse might remain a mystery to him . |
| 12 | Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i warned that the government spending required to finance Sharon 's scheme would cause a massive expansion in the budget deficit , and might trigger a return to the high inflation of the early 1980s . |
| 13 | In a review Davidson and Bridges pointed out , that an enhanced uptake of gliadin peptides might initiate lysosomal damage , and/ or increased permeation into the mucosal and submucosal space might trigger a cascade of local immunological events . |
| 14 | Even though fewer than three thousand people are now engaged in whaling , directly and indirectly , their loss of support might trigger a loss of confidence among other rural people and jeopardise the LDP 's increasingly frail hold on government ; an office they have held for more than 25 years . |
| 15 | I might eat a bread roll without the butter while I wait for the meal to arrive , and slimline or diet drinks act as a wonderful filler . |
| 16 | But even the lowliest appointment might oblige a freeholder who in turn desired to serve some obscure relative or other dependent , while in those appointments which demanded legal training , young advocates could establish their reputation as jurists , which in turn might attract business to their law practices in Edinburgh . |
| 17 | So a survey of an area such as a city might raise genuine problems of getting about to see people , and cluster sampling might sample a number of polling districts and concentrate the interviews in them to the complete exclusion of all the other polling districts . |
| 18 | With a bit of luck Eleanor might lend a hand . |
| 19 | Indeed , urging people not to pay their rates to the East End Water Company , Reynolds 's Newspaper ( 28 August 1898 ) conjured with the circumstances under which , in the struggle against what it called ‘ Horrible London ’ , even the horrible Hooligans might lend a hand : |
| 20 | Limiting the studies included to those that use the same measure of quality of life might lend a table some face validity . |
| 21 | The appropriate policies that might influence a decision-maker are broadly similar in the two contexts . |
| 22 | What factors might influence a trend towards one or more of the digital platforms ? |
| 23 | In Wales for example where HSU 3 ( History Study Unit ( History Curriculum , England ) ) consists of the core unit " Early peoples , Celts and Romans " , on a museum visit or using material from a museum loan collection , the class might compare a flint scraper and the remnants of an iron knife blade , and look at the importance of the discovery of metals , and the differences it has made to people 's lives . |
| 24 | A whale might swallow a man , yes , we can allow that as plausible ; but once inside he could not possibly live . |
| 25 | She worried that Chris might fall and break his leg , that Annie might swallow a stone and have to go to hospital , that Alan might give himself an ulcer through working too hard . |
| 26 | Some of their leaders , however , indulged in richer displays : in moments of leisure or on a Day of Truce a chieftain might sport a satin doublet or gold-buttoned jerkin , satin hose , and velvet breeches and cloak . |
| 27 | Any curtailment of such imports might damage a country 's export potential and economic development . |
| 28 | Whilst knitting your designs you might spare a thought for Giant Pandas now very much an endangered species . |
| 29 | In the latter part of the chapter we shall consider , at a deeper level , how accounting analyses might facilitate a cost-leadership strategy . |
| 30 | Since aggressive animals often have higher testosterone levels than normal this might aid a male in persisting in attacks on harem males and thereby in gaining a harem . |