Example sentences of "might [vb infin] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge the timing of the research carefully , advised Ms Morris ; a key sales period , Christmas for example , would not be typical , neither were school holidays , which might throw up a biased sample . |
| 2 | For Geoffroy , a change in the environment might trigger off a new pattern of growth in the organism — but the result was determined more by the laws of growth than by the adaptive needs of the organism . |
| 3 | You might earn almost a quarter of a million pounds a year — ’ |
| 4 | Our case studies [ see Chapter 7 ] have shown that these might make up a not unimportant share of the temporary labour force . |
| 5 | This example was meant to illustrate the unexpected links that might make up a chain of natural interactions , but it is significant that no experimental work was done to test the idea . |
| 6 | So we thought we might make up a party from the parish and go to Rome . ’ |
| 7 | They might make quite a thing of it . |
| 8 | We might catch up a bit here . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ They might fall over a cliff together , too . ’ |
| 11 | He , he just might grow up a little bit |
| 12 | He said he had taken Kurlovich to Barcelona aware of the positive test and fearful disclosure might bring on a dope scandal similar to the Bulgarian one which shook the 1988 Games . |
| 13 | I might bring in a note tomorrow saying I 've got make an appointment |
| 14 | In brief , the mechanisms through which policy makers might bring about a reduction in classical unemployment have not been systematically worked through in most models of temporary equilibrium . |
| 15 | It may seem a lot to you , but for a cast-iron story that might bring down a government , it 's cheap at the price , believe me . |
| 16 | Role-play might carry on a topic begun through the use of stories . |
| 17 | I might carry on a bit tomorrow . |
| 18 | Stroud grants that if we want to know how a third person can know the nature of reality , we might carry out a psychological investigation of his methods of information processing , and then compare the results of his reasoning with known facts . |
| 19 | ‘ Sometimes , I might follow up a tape with a phone call . |
| 20 | We suggest that you might work out a daily rate for lighting , repairs , telephone and sundries ( on the basis of a 36 week year ) and then charge that . |
| 21 | " We might work out a formula — if the next few days go well , that is . |
| 22 | ‘ But I might look in a bit later . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | To have accumulated only a few examples of candidate black holes might sound rather a thin result . |
| 25 | It was realised ( admittedly in connection with problems over legal aid payments , rather than dissolution of partnerships ) that difficulty might ensue where a solicitor continued to practise after applying for a renewal only to have his application eventually rejected . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Instead , the money supply might contract over a period of time as the banking sector adjusts stage by stage to successive sales of gilt-edged securities . |
| 28 | Mr Patten even mused that the Conservative Party might set up a think-tank on the lines of Germany 's Konrad Adenauer Stiftung , the research arm of the governing Christian Democrats . |
| 29 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 30 | She set the candelabrum and the tray down on one of the tables , removing his greatcoat and placing it carefully over the back of a chair so that she might lay out a cloth and utensils . |