Example sentences of "might [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public opinion responds to the conjunction of culture and event and solidifies either old or burgeoning values as might be the case . |
| 2 | This is because the study of poetry as poetry — rather than as historical or cultural material — is a matter of intuitive and affective response , not just of willingness to accept an intellectual discipline , as might be the case with philosophy , economics , and so forth . |
| 3 | The longer-term one might be the Soviet regime itself . |
| 4 | The cases came in a rush , in part because social services started referring a backlog of children because there was someone at the hospital prepared to diagnose , she says , and because Dr Wyatt started asking whether sexual abuse might be the problem in cases which had failed to respond to previous treatment . |
| 5 | It might be the authorities who give you permission but when it comes to the bit it 's the ordinary policeman who 's getting shot . |
| 6 | Next day , footsore , he saw a bicycle beside a house and , with nobody in sight , he quickly mounted it and rode ‘ like the clappers ’ , feeling that every time a car passed him , it might be the police . |
| 7 | Still , Michael Ramsey , being Ramsey , had to think that this might be the will of God for him . |
| 8 | As Ken Plummer observes , whereas once it was the homosexual who was viewed as sick , now it might be the heterosexual who is charged with pathology : ‘ Whereas once the homosexual was identified by a long series of character traits , it is now possible to identify the traits of the homophobe : authoritarian , cognitively restricted , with gender anxieties , ( Plummer , ‘ Homosexual Categories ’ , 62 ) . |
| 9 | So we begin to understand the masculine fear in the early modern period of being effeminized — not , as might be the case today , by erotic contact with other men , but by excessive contact with women . |
| 10 | In a foreword to the 1979 Conservative election manifesto , Mrs Thatcher suggested that the election might be the last chance voters had to reverse the extension of state power at the expense of the individual . |
| 11 | However , when these differences were revealed it was difficult to know which side feared cancelling the project most — ironically it might be the donor with its vested interest in a cumulative increase in annual disbursements , rather than the government with several hundred projects of which at least a half could be in the same state . |
| 12 | I say ‘ I might be the only one , while she has five friends . ’ |
| 13 | It looks pretty busy and there 's loads of shops and that , so it might be the right way . |
| 14 | This might be the prelude to any adapted stage play , a stimulating montage before the proscenium arch is fitted over the screen . |
| 15 | A case in point might be the Unabashed History of Pornography from InCat Systems of Milan , available on well illustrated CD-ROM . |
| 16 | If persuasion does not work , ‘ green conditionality ’ might be the answer in some cases , unpopular though it would be ; and for the really hard cases , sanctions , provided there is sufficient of a consensus to back them and the industrial world has not sunk into a mood of profound fatalism about the impossibility of stemming the greenhouse gases . |
| 17 | The primary purpose of our defence policy is , therefore , that it should protect us , our allies , and our friends against the whole spectrum of possible aggression and military threats , from small local action which might be the beginning of larger and more dangerous adventures through ‘ nuclear blackmail ’ to nuclear war . |
| 18 | The Acts of 1857 which established the probate and Divorce Courts provided that the ordinary judge of these courts might be the same person as the Admiralty judge . |
| 19 | Nigel meditated on whether smashing her trophy might be the best way to make a clean break . |
| 20 | She might be the only one brave enough . |
| 21 | It was recently suggested that these might be the products of an Italian maiolica workshop rather than Spanish as has long been believed . |
| 22 | By late September , the local doctor concluded that the lad was sinking fast , and told him ( according to the diary ) ‘ that notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made to check the disease , they had not done so … and advised him to look to God to prepare him for whatever might be the event of the disease . |
| 23 | This might be the case with provocation , for example : there may be objections to some of the distinctions now drawn by the law of provocation , but a broader defence of extreme emotional disturbance might provide for reduction of the offence in cases of loss of self-control when caring for a baby or when arrested by a police-officer known to be acting lawfully , and some might feel that there are strong arguments against this . |
| 24 | One reason might be the unsatisfactory state of the law under the Offences against the Person Act 1861 : that Act fails to provide both a clear and defensible gradation of offences and any general offences of threatening violence against another . |
| 25 | Sometimes there might be the temptation to leave it until the next day if the weather is bad or your car will not start . |
| 26 | A Shamen show is designed so you do n't just stand and stare at the band : and though the live act might be the heart of the show , the spectacle of Colin ( cropped Aberdeen curls , Trotsky shades ) , and Will ( shoulder length braided locks , shabby green fatigues ) is only part of an evening of light , music and effects that now involves around ten people . |
| 27 | Mungo remembered the old superstition that seagulls were the souls of dead sailors , and wondered whether these magnificent birds might be the spirits of lost travellers , doomed forever to haunt the scene of their disappearance . |
| 28 | ‘ What with this septi … whassname it might be the last you 'll get . ’ |
| 29 | Miss Cress watched her , not for any signs of betrayal but wondering if this might be the vague mind , the senility that her daughter had stressed , this symptomatic breaking-off of sentences . |
| 30 | It might be the resultant me is a product of the coincidences of my life . ’ |