Example sentences of "might have a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Being left alone for a while might have a calming effect .
2 The new Procurator , Julius Classicianus , began to fear that the devastation might have a serious lasting effect on the rebel areas .
3 Nathan Bryce might have a temporary advantage , but no slate-eyed , ruthless , mercenary businessman with a calculator instead of a heart was going to get the better of her .
4 Just the first kit , yes I shall probably do that there put it in without an envelope looks like there might , I might have so an odd I got some more of the envelopes at home I might have a small one , but er
5 ‘ He might have a spare can , ’ said Joanne .
6 Kohlberg has speculated on the existence of a seventh stage in which the universal human perspective is replaced by a holistic cosmic perspective which might have a religious or even a pantheistic orientation .
7 The murders might have a political motive .
8 Went back yesterday , tomorrow I 'll carry on , Thursday I might have a lay in
9 They had come , they said , to take Klein to lunch and to have a friendly discussion about a matter in which he might have a mutual interest .
10 You might have a slight problem , because we use the same I 'll I 'll try and get out the cash .
11 They prepared the resus. room , and when all was ready they informed the patients still waiting that they might have a slight delay due to an emergency that was being brought in .
12 An executive might have a limited opportunity to see for himself/herself conditions in a foreign country .
13 In January 1990 Roh said that the opposition might have a limited say in discussions on reunification , but invitations delivered to Panmunjom on Jan. 15 were nevertheless turned down .
14 However , I believe that in the longer run , as production processes become more automated , Kaplan 's activity-based costing concepts will find their main application at the stage of product design and investment selection , although they might have a wider application in service industries , such as the Health Service , and in the control of non-manufacturing costs .
15 Thus , even medieval land law , although conscious of the principle that third parties to a contract can not sue or be sued upon it , recognised that the covenants in leases might have a wider operation than in ordinary contracts .
16 He thinks you might have a typical jug and basin set of the Twenties to Thirties .
17 Here was her chance to find out exactly what the police were up to — it sounded as if they might have a new lead .
18 Dear Mr Westgate , I think we should have more footpaths or we might have a good chance of being killed .
19 But I think we might have a little time to ourselves now , and be d — d to anyone who says we have n't both earned it !
20 ‘ I 'd hoped , too , they might have a little peace , ’ he added more pointedly .
21 Of course when one thought about it rationally it was obvious there was bound to be an investigation of some kind , but throughout the long flight she had been too concerned with the purely personal implications of the news item to give a thought to those who might have a financial interest in the story .
22 The fact that such monitoring was taking place might have a salutary effect on the behaviour of those responsible for selecting medical staff .
23 They were understandably concerned to steer a middle course between over-confidence which might lead to an excessive number of candidates and realism which might have a restrictive effect .
24 And I might have a thousand stashed away that I did n't know about ?
25 Although Levi promised to work to unite the party " in order to heal the wound " , commentators claimed that the affair had exposed deep divisions in the party which might have a major impact on the June 23 general election .
26 you might have a grand child to wrap up something for .
27 In this way the homosexual writer is granted a dubious measure of liberal pity ( ‘ if only he had n't lived in such a repressive world ’ ) while at the same time the heterosexual critic distances the threatening possibility that a homosexual writer might have a great many insights into the codes , mechanisms and ideologies of heterosexuality itself .
28 So instead of immediately looking for the weakness in a woman , I will look for the strength and I will discount the fact that she might have a great body or be simply beautiful .
29 The Collector suspected that the Bard 's success in this respect might have a great deal to do with the ballistic advantages stemming from his baldness .
30 It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function .
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