Example sentences of "[pron] might [adv] be the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can we discern contemporary patterns of shared accommodation between kin which might also be the result of such pressures ? |
| 2 | He had no evidence — nothing but an anonymous letter which might easily be the work of some anti-Semite . |
| 3 | Only after the truce of 1686 with the Poles was it clear that she might well be the force of the future in eastern Europe . |
| 4 | She might just be the key to what I 'm looking for … ’ |
| 5 | If the fight goes the distance , there might hardly be the thickness of a stamp between them unless Chris ups his recent workrate . |
| 6 | The beliefs of Christians could not , it was said , rest upon historical judgments , because these beliefs as ‘ truths of reason ’ would then depend upon the truths of history , which were only ‘ accidental ’ ( in other words , they might not be the case ) . |
| 7 | They looked , from a distance , as if they might well be the remains of her first attempt at Islamic dress . |
| 8 | The former has five gadroons , compared to the three in the Colchester example but , clearly , they might still be the work of the same mosaicist . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ Relegation was unfortunate , but it might yet be the making of the club depending on just how we respond . |
| 10 | It might also be the case , too , that if he timed the attack carefully he might be able to give the verb ‘ caught short ’ a transitive sense . |
| 11 | Power might be a position of authority but it might also be the expertise or the charisma of the leader . |
| 12 | Whether we actually sell it or not is irrelevant , it 's the fact that it might just be the hook to get inside someone 's house . |
| 13 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 14 | Although what George says is easy to rectify with Lennie , it might not be the case with other people , and if so , George could find himself in a lot of trouble . |
| 15 | But it it might not be the sort of thing where numbers need to be , I mean |
| 16 | but it might not be the colours that we 're actually looking for |
| 17 | It might not be the dickhead you think it is . |
| 18 | If I was lucky , my father might tell me something and , if I was luckier still , it might even be the truth . |
| 19 | It might now be the case that the best guarantee of future oil supplies lies in the mutual economic interests that exist between Arab oil exporting economies and the industrial North . |
| 20 | For instance , in the first example of ( 21 ) it might still be the mob outside the embassy , in the second , perhaps a queue for an exhibition . |
| 21 | And it might almost be the work of Graham McClintoch . |