Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] might be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you might be a musician , an actor , a dancer , a singer or a sports person who relies on functioning to peak efficiency in order to obtain the best results . |
| 2 | ‘ Or she might be a part-timer who 's free on Tuesdays anyway . ’ |
| 3 | But it is useful anyway to speculate about possible findings and so some possible explanations ; the characters who use irony might be similar in type to Austen herself ( in class , gender , age ) ; or they might be the characters who function as heroes and heroines in the novels . |
| 4 | It might be a day or it might be a year . ’ |
| 5 | The atomic theory thus came by the 1860s to have two functions : it might be a fundamental theory of matter , about which it was appropriate to argue in a very general way ; or it might be a teaching aid , helpful to students who learned it as a dogma because it made sense of a great number of facts . |
| 6 | It might be a Gaullist or it might be a Communist . |
| 7 | ‘ Or it might be a disguise . ’ |
| 8 | A system might be a beaker containing a known amount of water or it might be a heat exchanger used in a chemical plant . |
| 9 | It might be something about blending with the efficient American women he had seen around the city or it might be a feeling of exile . |
| 10 | Or it might be the breaking of an oath or the refusal to accept the decrees of Rome , as with King John . |
| 11 | Or it might be the weapon of Goliath himself , used by governments in the exercise of power . |
| 12 | ‘ And I might be a gain , ’ Daniel said , ‘ if you would let me . ’ |
| 13 | He only knew that he had lost her , and she might be the liar , cheat and whore he thought she was , or the injured innocent she claimed to be — he did not care which , for whatever she was she had taken his life and his hopes with her . |
| 14 | ‘ The dragons might be there ; they might be real and they might be every bit as vicious as I 'd imagined , but I 'm a human being ; so was Adolf Hitler and he killed millions of people ! |
| 15 | Looked a sensible , down-to-earth type to me , and he might be a corrective to what we 've just been hearing . |
| 16 | We 've got three choices , we can either say let's give it a go back at your original job , and it might be a bit job . |
| 17 | and it might be the winter |
| 18 | Right , well , well , actually yes , what , what you look at , is , is what 's important to you and you put a cash value on it , and it might be the mortgage , it might be education , it might be giving yourself a couple of years ' salary and paying debts or whatever , er , and the security of knowing that O K , if I die , I 'm not leaving a problem for my family , but at the same time if I 'm in a situation where I get a serious illness and I ca n't bring in an income , I 'm securing my , my , my future in that respect . |
| 19 | It 'll be so hot I thought I might rent a place in the country , but it might be a waste of money . |
| 20 | The Labour defeat was a disaster , but it might be a blessing in disguise . |