Example sentences of "might be [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , even the threat that a merger might be referred to the MMC was often sufficient to induce the companies to drop their merger proposals . |
| 2 | The top players might be exposed to the ruthless rigours of international rugby four times a season , with perhaps a fortnight between games . |
| 3 | How do you know she 's left you ? ’ asked Pascoe , still suspicious that he might be listening to the self-deceiving euphemism of murder . |
| 4 | According to the WEU Secretary-General , Willem van Eekelen , as many as 50,000 troops might be assigned to the new force , most of them from existing units , including an Anglo-Dutch amphibious division , a planned multinational North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) division and the recently formed Franco-German corps [ see pp. 38931-32 ] . |
| 5 | The occurrence of older age Carboniferous subcrop beneath the Cleveland Hills suggests that a similar argument might be applied to the estimated amount of 2500 m uplift . |
| 6 | Karsten Greve will follow his compelling exhibition of the hieratic images of little-known , self-taught Miami painter Purvis Young ( with luck , the show might be extended to the second week of May ) with new works by Californian artist Carole Seborovski ( until 4 July ) . |
| 7 | But the emergence in England of the French ‘ broad-fold ’ idiom — a ‘ style that was undoubtedly coming to transform the appearance of the figurative arts ’ — in the 1260s might be related to the close and active relationships created between the two kingdoms by the diplomatic and judicial consequences of the treaty of Paris in 1259 . |
| 8 | Finally , the onset of Dupuytren 's disease following injury in genetically-susceptible individuals might be related to the large pool of activated T-cells and macrophages present in the wound . |
| 9 | So with forces families very often in those days , you might be delivering to the first floor . |
| 10 | Since pain and sexual stimulation have some connection more attention might be paid to the sexual elements of those cases which do come to light . |
| 11 | I believe that a good deal more attention might be paid to the sexual and quasi-sexual problems of younger people particularly , perhaps , those of earlier puberty . |
| 12 | The Kiwi coach has done very well to help the game reach communist China ( see July issue of RW&P , pages 56 and 57 ) where there are hopes that rugby might be introduced to the Chinese armed forces . |
| 13 | Preparation can aid negotiators by analysing the kinds of concessions which might be offered to the other side . |
| 14 | In determining what was reasonable , regard might be had to the general housing circumstances prevailing in the local authority to whom the application was made . |
| 15 | Preoccupation : The family member 's life is haunted day and night by thoughts on what might be happening to the primary sufferer and what action might or might not be taken to help . |
| 16 | Thus one scientist might be attracted to the Copernican theory because of the simplicity of certain mathematical features of it . |