Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] might [vb infin] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were a lot of young drunks staggering about , too — most at that noisy and unattractive stage where they might want to be your pal or pick a fight or just throw up on you , so I gave them a wide berth . |
| 2 | " I just think that she might prove to be somewhat difficult to dispose of … oh , do n't look so surprised . |
| 3 | I had not done so before merely because I had not thought of them in this context ; I had supposed that you might prefer to be at some slight remove from the nefarious influences of the department … |
| 4 | Belinda if we can start with you more or less erm I heard the other day that you 're half thinking that you might like to be a nurse ? |
| 5 | Give somebody a lift and take cash for it and we 've got you , so you might have to be very careful who you travel with , if you get my drift . ’ |
| 6 | They need clothes for the prisoners as well as paper , pens , paint , in fact anything that we might find to be surplus in this country they could use , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Superman ( Christopher Reeve ) himself was sometimes hung by wires ( the disadvantage of which is that they might have to be matted out frame by frame by hand ) or supported on a hydraulic arm that came out of the screen at 90° and which , like his shadow , was hidden by his body . |
| 8 | A spokesman for the Assembly stated that it was hoped to hold elections by the end of 1992 , but that they might have to be postponed for a few months given the parlous state of the country . |
| 9 | I think that they might seem to be an indulgence to supporters more than partners , even if they offered training/education . |
| 10 | Such a process is not just ‘ muddling along ’ , although it might appear to be so . |
| 11 | Some power was always available — if only through the mythical Ways and Means Act — although it might have to be handled with kid gloves . |
| 12 | ‘ How 's the ball lying , Roey ’ was the cry and , believe me , Mike Hughesdon and Clive Clark 's job is a lot harder than it might appear to be . |
| 13 | But the arrangement is more artful than it might appear to be at first sight . |
| 14 | Some pundits were , rather foolishly , speculating that he might prove to be better than all of them . |
| 15 | But they might have to be supplemented by mercenaries from Flanders and the Low Countries , where the rapidly expanding population forced large numbers of young men into military careers . |
| 16 | Yet not only could such a rearrangement be brought about , with the will to do so , but it might come to be seen as greatly to the general advantage of the school . |
| 17 | I say you might — because of course I can not speak with any certainty upon that point — as you might wish to be granted . |
| 18 | In these ways , our relationship with others grows and deepens , freeing them to be in Christ as they might long to be . |
| 19 | But it also suggests that many –normal , healthy' people are not as immune from everyday chemicals as they might appear to be . |
| 20 | Due to a multiplicity of problems , the ‘ proper course of action ’ was not as evident as it might seem to be in retrospect . |