Example sentences of "might [be] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 2 | Anderson participated in the informal soundings on how best the idea might be given institutional and practical form . |
| 3 | There have been suggestions that they might be given state funding , or that some RCD members in the Chamber of Deputies might resign to allow the other parties a look in . |
| 4 | Property might be given to a trustee upon trust for the separate use of the married woman , free from the control and liabilities of her husband . |
| 5 | We therefore weighing with ourselves how to prevent the endeavours of such wicked persons … thought necessary to disunite and dissociate the Apothecaries of our City of London from the Freedom of the Mystery of Grocers … into one body Corporate and politic … to whom in all future time the management of those inconveniences might be given charge and committee … after the manner of other Companies . |
| 6 | The first relates to the ‘ gay Vestment ’ [ see ‘ The Disappointment ’ , ML , 2 , 79 ] which Sophronia suggested might be given to Leapor . |
| 7 | The Syrians watched impassively as one of the Christian gunmen produced a camera , the kind of small pocket camera that might be given to a child as a Christmas present . |
| 8 | At best , a family might be given two shillings weekly if , after being willing to submit to a very strict investigation into their financial position ( this was called a ‘ Means Test ’ ) they were found to be at starvation level . |
| 9 | Graham Taylor is hoping that Santa wo n't give away any goals to England 's World Cup opponents — or he might be given the sack . |
| 10 | The lower scale figure should continue for older cars : although the current four-year break period is acceptable , consideration might be given to using a period of three years . |
| 11 | Of land on the registers he says hopefully , ‘ it 's possible that in areas with planning restrictions , planning permission might be given more readily in order for it to be cleaned up as part of development ’ . |
| 12 | Benny was glad that her father would be there for the cake , because that was when she might be given her present . |
| 13 | On the information given ( which is , for example , all that might be given in an intermediate credit advertisement under the Consumer Credit ( Advertisements ) Regulations 1980 ) the only way that the shopper , without access to a computer , can decide between these alternative APRs is subjectively . |
| 14 | Moreover , patients are more likely to receive the ‘ appropriate ’ treatment from the NHS , whereas in private schemes , unnecessary treatment might be given , when doctors are paid a rate for the job . |
| 15 | The time spent together might be given over to sharing a game of dominoes , or cards , knitting , or having a quick drink , if the circumstances were right . |
| 16 | Your bank balance might be given a pleasant surprise . |
| 17 | A different answer , however , might be given to a soldier who followed a leader of his own choosing — for pay ; he could not plead obedience if his conscience left him uneasy . |
| 18 | One possible answer , which might be given where the relevant legal system remains close to the classical approach of the civil law tradition , would be along these lines : ‘ The court , having reviewed the written minutes containing the evidence as to the facts of the case , hears submissions on behalf of the parties as to the conclusions to be drawn in the light of the applicable law . ’ |
| 19 | The only provision of Order 11 under which leave might be given was that dealing with the case where ‘ in the action begun by the writ an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do or refrain from doing anything within the jurisdiction … |
| 20 | A set of criteria might be given as a list , but it is more likely that at least some of the relationships between individual criteria will be indicated . |
| 21 | To take David Lewis ' example ( D. Lewis 1973 ) , ‘ if kangaroos had no tails , they would topple over ’ ; it is of course always true that they might not topple over — they might be given crutches by a grateful and tourist-conscious government . |
| 22 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 23 | There was no provision in the statute regulating the admissibility or otherwise in criminal proceedings of any answers which might be given . |
| 24 | A court can give or withhold a consent or authority such as might be given or withheld by a patient or a child 's parent . |
| 25 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 26 | The same sentiment appears in Lagunas Nitrate Company v Lagunas Syndicate , where it is suggested , somewhat eccentrically , that effect might be given to it by allowing the directors to plead the defence of volenti non fit iniuria . |
| 27 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 28 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 29 | What reply might be given to all this ? |
| 30 | What gives a name as a name its special status is that it represents the transcendence " of the object relative to any particular description that might be given of that object . |