Example sentences of "might [vb infin] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One might think that with the nation stuffed full of church buildings , few of which are stuffed full of people , the last thing needed is to plant new ones . |
| 2 | YOU might think that after a year like this , the Chancellor of the Exchequer would be older and wiser . |
| 3 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 4 | We might think that by the end of this fragment there is once again a single version for both speakers of ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ . |
| 5 | We might expect that in condition B , where clauses ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) are syntactically related , verbatim recall of these clauses should be similar . |
| 6 | Furthermore , while ‘ logically ’ it might appear that at least from summer 1941 only Hitler could be blamed for the extension and prolongation of the war , a sufficient platform had been constructed by years of propaganda and ideological indoctrination to buttress the transfer of the blame to Germany 's external enemies — the Bolsheviks , the Jews , the British , the Americans — or to internal incompetence , naturally stopping short of the Führer , as when Field Marshal von Brauchitsch was made the scapegoat for mistakes in strategy and provisioning on the eastern Front in the winter of 1941–2 . |
| 7 | Many would-be newspaper lensmen might assume that before each job the photographer gets a very precise brief from someone like Dermot O'Shea , and that all they have to do is to go off and get the shot . |
| 8 | Of course we might assume that in our stationary state every business remained always of the same size , and with the same trade connection . |
| 9 | The plaintiff might claim that during the period between the accident and the trial he would have been promoted and received earnings higher than his pre-accident earnings . |
| 10 | society you ca n't going to survive unless you have a woman back in the having the kids and we might see that as a you know you laugh when I say that , you know |
| 11 | This is in contrast to the relatively high esteem in which data and information management is currently held , and if we are optimistic we might hope that by associating work on computer systems with the control of paper , we might raise the DROs ’ prestige within government . |
| 12 | We might suggest that in conceiving the rule for + 2 , we somehow already conceived all the instances , and this is what makes it the case that the ‘ correct ’ interpretation is correct . |
| 13 | These findings might suggest that in the non-replicative phase of chronic hepatitis B virus infection , pre-S1 or pre-S2 is non-secretable , and thus will be retained within the cytoplasm of the hepatocytes . |
| 14 | If correct , it might imply that in a capitalist society our ordinary thoughts are part of a ‘ capitalist ideology ’ , which ensures that capitalists reap their profits whilst the rest of us are kept in obedient subordination . |
| 15 | These figures have always traditionally been very unreliable , but I 'm hoping that it also might indicate that across the country and also in Oxfordshire we are developing what we call out-reach services and the idea is for people to get in contact with drug users who probably do n't want a lot of the time to stop using drugs . |
| 16 | The Secklow hundred mound in Milton Keynes is the only hundred meeting place which has been excavated , and no study has been carried out which might indicate that in addition to the courts other activities may have taken place , like markets and fairs , the collection of customs and dues , or religious ceremonies . |
| 17 | Erm but it might mean that in fact we do need to reconsider what we mean by subsistence income . |
| 18 | Railway enthusiasts , local or not , might recall that in this century the GWR named a Castle Class locomotive ‘ Bishop 's Castle ’ , though unfortunately , unlike ‘ Clun Castle ’ it did not survive into preservation . |
| 19 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 20 | However , while it might seem that in high EE homes , people with schizophrenia would be particularly vulnerable to relapse after a life event , Leff and Vaughn ( 1980 ) failed to find an excess of events in the weeks preceding relapse for patients in high EE homes . |
| 21 | It may therefore be that , if a technique were ever found to evaluate the economic costs and benefits of innovative work design , it might reveal that in a number of cases such innovation had net costs , to management , rather than net benefits . |
| 22 | Why allowed three minutes for , but I might extend that to three and a quarter , I think , if the time goes well . |
| 23 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 24 | that do explain a little bit about Abbey Life products and also have a copy of as well erm they might find that of help before I give them a call . |
| 25 | If we manage to sort out the syntactical problems , we might find that in the end the other issues will get sorted out of themselves . |
| 26 | Perhaps , yeah we might find that by the time we got to might not be able to get it all on . |
| 27 | I might find that by then my days have altered and I will be on the Thursday . |
| 28 | They might find that until the sixteenth century everyone believed that the Sun went round the Earth . |
| 29 | By analogy , one might argue that in a democracy in which the people are , in effect , sovereign , the only effective restraint in the last resort is likely to be that of the people over themselves . |
| 30 | In reply , the restructuring school , while agreeing that it is important to distinguish long-term and short-term changes , might argue that within any long-term decentralization there have been periods of crucial importance . |