Example sentences of "might be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Commission did , however , recognise that custody and charge would not necessarily coincide , and that there might be intervals of time whilst the suspect was under arrest but not yet charged , and whilst he was on bail after being charged ; and the recommendation was made that the prohibition of questioning should also apply to these periods . |
| 2 | We do not know if they had music or even if they had genuine art : cave-paintings and bone-carvings might be manifestations of the muse , but they could equally well have been executed solely for mystical purposes . |
| 3 | But then , there might be joints of meat and the ice-cream and all the desserts and all the all , I mean , we have had fresh veg , we 're not allowed to put peas on the carvery . |
| 4 | ‘ They might be favourites but if we stick to our passing game and play for each other we can shock them . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ There might be papers of some kind , ’ Evelyn put in . |
| 6 | The Liberal Democrats might be Cinderella , but they are not responsible for the 40 years of failure of the Two Ugly Sisters . |
| 7 | You 'll also have application services so in the office it might be email or you may have E D I talking to your suppliers . |
| 8 | On the other hand , there might be circumstances where an employer would be vicariously liable for a conspiracy involving his servants provided the other requirements of that form of liability are met . |
| 9 | Perhaps he might be Liam Shakespeare after all . |
| 10 | These were the zeks — they might be killers or thieves or rapists or parasites or hooligans . |
| 11 | Forest Chairman Fred Reacher removed any fears that his manager would be joining the pit men in the dole queue , but he hinted that this might be Clough 's last season in charge . |
| 12 | The Mad Scene feature an ex-Ex Lion Tamer and experience in said Wire covers band is what makes them a sort of glum The Might Be Giants with guitars on the title track and a kind of Beatle Fall on the rest . |
| 13 | It occurred to me that it might be Ruth Cohen again , but I could n't have been more wrong , for when I opened the door I found a young police constable standing there in his navy-blue mac wet with rain . |
| 14 | The group have begun to connect four ideas : the wire wool has gone brown ; it has gone brown because of the rain ; it might be metal ; it might be rusty . |
| 15 | There might be times when we let you do the whole lot or when you have to have more than one go at it . |
| 16 | We never dreamed that women might be members of the judiciary of House of Lords . |
| 17 | There might be somefink in there about it . |
| 18 | In Darlington , where the Neighbourhood Watch scheme is supposed to be the biggest catch all since the trawl net was invented and where you can get into terrible trouble for suggesting there might be holes in the net the number of burglaries from houses has increased by 25pc in a year . |
| 19 | Sir Frank , who had earned his knighthood by making house calls only at houses where there might be photographers waiting outside , had once told George he drank too much . |
| 20 | There might be problems with you only being part-time . |
| 21 | ‘ We are taking a positive approach and our attitude is not that there might be problems . ’ |
| 22 | You might imagine supporting them , talking with them when they needed to talk , trying to help , but you did n't imagine that you would be the one desperate to talk ( or the one too embarrassed to talk , too ashamed or too proud to talk ) ; you did n't imagine you would be the one who needed help , not even when you told friends that of course there might be problems , or agreed with your beloved that you would always talk about things … |
| 23 | On the other hand , since his agent had accepted the terms so avidly , he thought there might be problems in getting them changed . |
| 24 | First of all nursery schools would be dealing with the County Council on a different basis from the vast of , of the schools population and that will give rise to anomalies and complications which would be undesirous and secondly there might be problems particularly if they are considering expanding nursery provision between nursery schools and nursery classes in primary schools . |
| 25 | But Coun Bob Pendlebury , deputy leader of the county council 's ruling Labour group , said it was recognised that there might be problems , but they would be dealt with as they arose . |
| 26 | And there might be strawberry jam today . ’ |
| 27 | He did n't want to answer it , thinking that it might be Vasco again , but he could n't afford not to . |
| 28 | Exceptions might be SSD abuse of powers , or perverse decisions . |
| 29 | ‘ There might be bits in the luxury pile , ’ she said . |
| 30 | There might be bits of those bands in there , as far as influences go — music I 've heard — because all music I 've ever heard is obviously an influence . |