Example sentences of "might to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thereby pays less attention than he might to interpreting the science of art as a cultural phenomenon . |
| 2 | But , cling as she might to the bolster she had taken with her to stop her screams , she could not stop shaking . |
| 3 | In one regrettable case , which I myself witnessed , it had become an established sport in the house for guests to ring for the butler and put to him random questions of the order of , say , who had won the Derby in such and such a year , rather as one might to a Memory Man at the music hall . |
| 4 | His vision of owners applying the same judgements to their buildings as they might to their car or their rivers being polluted by waste dumping . |
| 5 | Parker said , almost as a dentist might to a tearful fearful patient . |
| 6 | They shouted commands to each other , the Second Son speaking to the engine as he might to his horse , commanding , urging , praising . |
| 7 | Since my own view of language is one in which meaning is fluid and context-dependent , I attach less importance than some feminists might to such attempts at pinning down what he or man really mean . |
| 8 | The geography of Boiotia might to a shallow observer seem to suit her for naval hegemony . |
| 9 | In fact , we found that agency workers and part-time workers might to some extent be substitutes for one another , in that the higher the proportion of the work force that was part-time , the lower the likelihood that the establishment was using such temporary workers . |
| 10 | Try as I might to be in the present , to subsume myself to history , to see myself as just another corpuscle coursing along the urban arteries , I could n't . |
| 11 | Instead , the shores of Zurich 's lake have a more intimate charm , comparing to those of Lucerne and Geneva as a well kept garden might to an alpine panorama or a royal park . |
| 12 | Well , another few weeks in prison wo n't make much difference to your brother , but it might to my niece . |
| 13 | I 'd say publishing in The Square Ball does n't bring us ‘ overground ’ , as you put it Tim , but publishing in the programme might to some extent — it could imply some sort of ‘ official ’ status . |
| 14 | ‘ It might to your fiancé . |
| 15 | But it might to someone else . |
| 16 | he said I might to town today . |
| 17 | I , he wo n't come to me hey , he might to you , but he wo n't come here ! |