Example sentences of "there might " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 2 | There might be problems with you only being part-time . |
| 3 | Among its tortuous water-courses , its hidden back-glens and caves and dark deformed woods choked with fallen trees knee-deep in moss , there might be refuges for a hundred listed men , if the worst happened . |
| 4 | There might be regrets over giving up the novel , but after having been deeply interested in that form for many years ( even to the extent of writing one ) and often teaching courses on the novel , I have come to the conclusion that the pedagogic difficulties involved are extreme . |
| 5 | In the 1950s , it seemed as if there might be a place for literature in the academy , so that the writing of fiction or poetry , of criticism , and the teaching of literature would become a unified form of life . |
| 6 | If , perhaps , Katherine was a little more credible ( and Gerardine Hinds 's rather uncertain playing does n't help ) , there might be more to grapple with . |
| 7 | Research shows that there are currently 960 accounting systems on offer in the UK , and Headland thinks there might be some consolidation . |
| 8 | There might also be a very few closures , it said . |
| 9 | It is not entirely without foundation : holidaying on the cheap in such places as super-smart St Moritz , Zermatt and Gstaad is next to impossible , whatever the tourist offices there might say . |
| 10 | Never does it occur to him that there might be good reason to dispute his proposals . |
| 11 | There might even be a case for a standardised calculator to be used in all A , AS and GCSE examinations nationally . |
| 12 | There might be funfairs everywhere , but the real Disneyland was neither crumbling , nor swept by bitter winds off the Irish Sea , nor cursed by hotels that are really gimcrack boarding houses , nor served by superannuated London cabs displaying notices saying that if you 're so drunk that you 're sick inside , a cleaning fee of £10 will be payable to the driver . |
| 13 | He added that there might be a sufficient pool of volunteers to act as a new breed of ‘ civil justices ’ . |
| 14 | It was hoped that there might be one or more lawyers in post in the relatively near future . |
| 15 | Exuding confidence that there might be an alternative — notably himself — to Tory policy , Michael Heseltine told a fringe meeting : ‘ Polluted rivers , filthy streets , bodies bedded down in doorways are no advertisement for a prosperous or caring society . ’ |
| 16 | However , there might well be other reasons for this . |
| 17 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 18 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 19 | And there might never be another world . ’ |
| 20 | It is also clear that in some places , Marx at least , seems willing to envisage qualifications which are even more fundamental ; for example , that there might be more than one line of evolution . |
| 21 | You would have thought there might be a problem of some sort : just a small failure perhaps ; something which would suggest that all was not well within the house of the world champions ; something which would give the rest a smidgeon of hope for the remainder of the season . |
| 22 | There might have been no one else in the pub tonight but the two of them . |
| 23 | For all Wexford knew or could remember there might have been a bank robbery in that city at that time . |
| 24 | ‘ But there might have been in the outhouses ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ There might at that , ’ said the agent doubtfully . |
| 26 | Recent work suggests that there might be a daily rhythm in the composition of a mother 's milk . |
| 27 | Perhaps it will have occurred to the reader that there might be links between the disorders and treatments described so far . |
| 28 | Likewise there might be a progressive increase in the free-running period of the body clock as we pass through the sequence : ‘ slightly an owl ’ , ‘ definitely an owl ’ , Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome , free-running rhythm in normal society . |
| 29 | There was a shortage of trained teachers and the planning of schools reflected this circumstance ; most of the instruction was done in a large school-room , off which there might be one or two classrooms which were used for teaching smaller groups . |
| 30 | Our desire is not that others might be relieved while you are hard pressed , but that there might be equality . |