Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] might [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone with good eyesight would certainly have seen the riders , but to someone like Dame Elizabeth their presence might only be betrayed by a flash of colour . |
| 2 | The dual purpose of the book was identified as attempting to present a view of landscape and processes in terms relevant to the student of human geography by indicating the ways in which socioeconomic and physical systems interlock and interact , and also by showing how far knowledge of the physical world and its processes is compatible with the ideas of systems theory to demonstrate areas in which research might profitably be concentrated . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm a copywriter at Grantham and Marsh — a top London advertising agency , ’ she responded coolly , finding it unnecessary to add that , because of the recession at present affecting the advertising world generally , her job might not be waiting for her on her return ! |
| 4 | And in response to the growing number of women presenting with problems associated with alcohol dependence , the Board in its report this year makes some moderate and practical proposals about the way in which alcohol might responsibly be marketed . |
| 5 | Only in the last months of her life did it appear that her policy might not be sustained , because of the changed situation in England and France . |
| 6 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 7 | The court said that there was no general rule that a valuation made on an " erroneous principle " ( which presumably means the same as a mistaken decision ) had to stand unless it were also shown that a valuation on the right principle would produce a materially different figure from the figure of the erroneous valuation : if there were such a rule , it would place on the objector the extra burden of making a fresh valuation which in its turn might also be rejected . |
| 8 | A similar effort to control the boundaries within which sexuality might legally be expressed was inherent in the late Victorian attempt to regulate prostitution . |
| 9 | At the end of each course sports with prizes should be held and a bullock given as a prize to the best drill squad and all round ‘ Sirit ’ [ company ] whose instructor might also be rewarded . |
| 10 | His aim might unkindly be described as the creating of rococo tragedy with Aristotle 's support . |
| 11 | His wife might even be sparing a thought for the murdered women 's families , never guessing that the man she was married to had been the perpetrator . |
| 12 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 13 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 14 | His reputation might yet be restored . |