Example sentences of "[noun] might be [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.

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31 The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ .
32 From a different perspective such repeated defects of urban policy might be expected to be overcome through local community involvement , yet again the three contributions here demonstrate a complexity which belies naive aspirations .
33 Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development .
34 Class bias might be expected to be less in the US , where tertiary education is less restricted and social class is often claimed to be less important .
35 In short , he is all that a medieval paladin might be expected to be .
36 A subject might be considered to be defined by :
37 The dominating sadist might be thought to be compensating for a feeling of sexual or personal inadequacy .
38 An administrative receiver might be considered to be the agent of those who appointed him but this is not the case ; section 44 of the 1986 Act makes him the agent of the company .
39 They hoped for no benefit of internal interpretation or the construal of favourable terms ; rather , they hoped that a disposition in dubious form might be admitted to be a disposition of legal force , or that a disposition in an invalid will might not sink into the oblivion of intestacy .
40 Such an abnormality might be considered to be insufficient to explain the severity and chronicity of symptoms , however , involvement of widespread areas of the intestine including the colon have been described in cryptosporidiosis and the extent of the enteropathy may be an important factor in these cases .
41 On the other hand , its penalty structure might be thought to be preferable to that of New South Wales , for the maximum penalty for each category of offence is higher than in New South Wales and the ten-year maximum for simple sexual assault enables a heavier penalty to be imposed in serious cases which do not come within the higher categories .
42 One might interpret this in relation to stronger group orientation , as expected of those who are field-dependent , nevertheless the task might be expected to be easier for those who are more used to visual processing .
43 Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management .
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