Example sentences of "might be take " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most promising way of achieving this might be to take more seriously Dworkin 's own master principle of equal concern and respect , for , as has been seen , this does appear capable of generating a right of equality which transcends that of equality of opportunity , and a right of effective participation in the decision-making process which would go far beyond the right to vote in a general election once every five years . |
| 2 | The fact that he might be taking a considerable risk only added to his excitement . |
| 3 | Of course , all these symptoms can be part of the growing-up process , but if you are worried that your teenager might be taking drugs , or suspect drug-taking among their friends or school mates , it is very important for their own safety that you should get help . |
| 4 | If by ‘ weirdos ’ , Ms Fahey means bizarrely attired , tousled-tressed former narcoticists who perform in beat groups , then one fears that in the form husband , Mr David Stewart , she might be taking the problem with her . |
| 5 | She reported sternly to a meeting of the management team that word-of-mouth recruitment might be taking place . |
| 6 | This indicated that transinstitutionalization might be taking place . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm worried , quite frankly , about the responsibility I might be taking on . ’ |
| 8 | Her face reflecting her disgust , and horror as she stared at the other woman , Ellie turned to glance at Feargal to see how he might be taking this insulting piece of arrant mischief-making , and was astonished to see that he looked not angry , but almost sad . |
| 9 | Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 10 | A club servant might be taking Moscow gold so perhaps one should not share secrets with them and so might another club member — but since he is likely to be a government official as well you already have a far bigger problem than just his being a member of your club . |
| 11 | Colonial government is presented as a largely apolitical , administrative business , unrelated to any economic and social changes which might be taking place as a consequence of colonial domination and exploitation ( Eisenstadt 1963 ) . |
| 12 | A weakness of this kind of presentation is that concentrating on how the shares in one part of the distribution compare ignores changes that might be taking place in other parts of the distribution . |
| 13 | However , in this case , only one slower-migrating species is observed , suggesting that a single phosphorylation event might be taking place . |
| 14 | Or it might be taking somebody to hospital . |
| 15 | Yeah well I do n't know about yet I think it 's too Steve might be taking him to see his nan on Saturday cos he knows Bill 's going Saturday . |
| 16 | ‘ The numbers of men who might be taken . |
| 17 | It might seem that it would , because it might seem very natural to think that one red thing or image might be taken as standing for red things in general because of its natural resemblance to the other members of the class , this constituting the most fundamental sort of association . |
| 18 | The red star would probably be replaced by a red rose , the huge portrait of Lenin at headquarters might be taken down . |
| 19 | Mr Palumbo also suggested that grant money might be taken away from companies which failed to achieve a sufficiently high standard . |
| 20 | The Community 's authority would be extended to many areas , like health and education , where it now has no legal remit ; majority voting in the Council of Ministers would be reinforced ; the European Parliament would be given extra power to block laws it does not like ; and a small step might be taken towards a common EC defence policy . |
| 21 | Having in mind the proposals of the Government for a very considerable increase in the armaments of the country , and also the piling up of armaments in other European countries with a consequent danger of war , the Council in March passed a resolution calling the TUC to discuss measures which might be taken to oppose such an armament programme and to prepare plans for action to prevent the outbreak of war . |
| 22 | The clumsiness is evident in the standard of ‘ the reasonable man ’ , an anthropomorphic ( and male ) standard which might be taken to suggest a paragon of virtue if it were not for the context of partially exculpating a killing by such a person . |
| 23 | If he was n't careful , it might be taken for a bid , Mungo thought . |
| 24 | Such evidence might be taken to show a much less intense use of coinage in the former than in the latter , a view which could be supported by the calculations based on the material from Bath that very little coinage was available in circulation per capita of the population of Roman Britain ( see p. 47 ) . |
| 25 | The argument might be taken a step further . |
| 26 | Two pence per half-year might be taken for each cart , and one halfpenny for each pack-horse . |
| 27 | The idea of ‘ flooded classrooms ’ might be taken as the product of bureaucratic desperation . |
| 28 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 29 | There is a passage in Mr Palomar which plays on the dialectic between speech ( or communicative language ) and silence and which might be taken to foreshadow the structure of the book as a whole . |
| 30 | The enormous variety in the clinical descriptions of the primary sores , from ‘ dwarf to ‘ giant ’ , ‘ transient ’ to ‘ phagedenic ’ ( destructive of tissue ) , and follicular ’ to ‘ papular ’ might be taken as lending a little indirect support for this heresy . |