Example sentences of "[det] might be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is even possible that some might be low ‘ g ’ sensitive and be at risk if a low ‘ g ’ situation suddenly occurs . |
| 2 | Some might be happy to see it pushed , temporarily , to the margins . |
| 3 | ‘ When we heard that some might be communists we decided that we did n't have to take any notice of them anyway . |
| 4 | Most callers at your home will be genuine , but some might be out to steal or cheat you out of your money . |
| 5 | There is no sense of the various nuances involved in the attributions , nor that some might be inconceivable without language . |
| 6 | That is , although they generally rejected the idea that people might be ‘ converted ’ to homosexuality through seduction , they suggested that some might be tempted into other corrupt activities : |
| 7 | The young Lolita — the sexually precocious girl — is a familiar figure for most people ( although some might be horrified if they knew how young she can be ) and within the experience of most social workers . |
| 8 | Some might be willing to grant the general thrust of what has been said , that teaching and research are different kinds of activity , but still be reluctant to accept that teachers in higher education do not have a major responsibility to conduct research . |
| 9 | Some might be worrying about their dancing and how it looks to onlookers , others might be worried about their partner 's nervous shuffling from foot to foot — what will people be thinking ? |
| 10 | There ca n't be a man alive who sees you and does n't want to take you to bed , who does n't wonder what you 're like , although some might be able to resist the temptation to try and find out once they realise what you are . |
| 11 | Some might be tempted to say in touch with reality , but I think I 'd prefer on this occasion to say in touch with another dimension of reality . |
| 12 | If one is inclined to the didactic another might be the reverse . |
| 13 | Another might be to accuse the modern art museum of having neutered and sanitised ‘ radical ’ art by the simple act of collecting and displaying it . |
| 14 | Another might be attracted to it because he sees in it the possibility of calendar reform . |
| 15 | The Report failed to specify the conditions under which the past experience of the few might be safe ground on which to shape the future experience of every child and teacher in the country . |
| 16 | ( Some people think that this might be dangerous for inexperienced students , but it does not seem to cause any particular problems in Australia . ) |
| 17 | This might be characterized as ‘ what it is like to see ’ or ‘ what things look like ’ or , most especially , ‘ what colours are like ’ ( that is , what they look like — there is no difference in their case ) . |
| 18 | There would appear to be at least two different reasons why this might be so . |
| 19 | Age Concern England has urged the Government to monitor more closely the provision by health authorities of continuing care , and has made a number of recommendations about how this might be done . |
| 20 | This might be attributed to cyclotron resonance induced in human body cells by weak electromagnetic fields . |
| 21 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 22 | This might be a glitch in the translation , but when Casaubon observes , ‘ Life is n't simple , the way it is in detective stories ’ , the gobsmacking banality can only be the author 's . |
| 23 | This might be because the people to whom they apply are encountered only infrequently in the course of police work . |
| 24 | For a developing country in particular this might be a desirable outcome in the case of non-essential goods . |
| 25 | Still , Michael Ramsey , being Ramsey , had to think that this might be the will of God for him . |
| 26 | This might be legal assistance to recover unpaid fees or help with the negotiations after a cancelled engagement . |
| 27 | It is n't uncommon for a record contract to allow for a royalty increase of I per cent throughout each year of the agreement , and for this to be raised once certain sales figures have been reached ( commonly , this might be for gold and platinum status albums ) . |
| 28 | To do this , the accountant will discuss who will be responsible for them ( this might be a band member , the accountant or the band 's manager ) . |
| 29 | A clue as to what this might be comes from our personal experience if we attempt to miss a night 's sleep and stay up all night ( fig 1.2 ) . |
| 30 | This might be a radio or television programme or some natural phenomenon , for example when the sun or another star reaches its highest point in the sky . |