Example sentences of "[is] [verb] might " in BNC.
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| 1 | Permission is here conceived as existing already , even though that which is permitted might be carried out ten years from now , or never . |
| 2 | Christian Aid is not in a position itself to set up and service all the training which it is envisaged might be useful to supporters . |
| 3 | What Lamb is saying might be true but I doubt it . |
| 4 | What he 's doing might be considered unfortunate for the baby — though I 'm not sure it is — but it could be of immense value to humanity as a whole . ’ |
| 5 | The inference seems to work roughly like this : assume B 's utterance is relevant ; if it 's relevant then given that A asked a question , B should be providing an answer ; the only way one can reconcile the assumption that B is co-operatively answering A's question with the content of B's utterance is to assume that B is not in a position to provide the full information , but thinks that the milkman 's coming might provide A with the means of deriving a partial answer . |
| 6 | The other is to rely on other data which it is hoped might serve as indicators of satisfaction . |
| 7 | This is a person who quite likes the idea that the woman he is mashing might stick an ice-pick into his jugular at any second . |
| 8 | Such an expressed intention puts the book into the ‘ holistic ’ category and might alarm many scientists that what is to follow might be some kind of woolly metaphysical vagueness . |