Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This research will also consider how far young children 's social behaviour with peers encourages collaborative working at computers and , then , how far an individual 's self perception might be influenced by such focused collaborations . |
| 2 | They also provide three-dimensional environments of enormous physical complexity , and hence contain numerous different niches , each of which might be exploited in many different ways , and in many different permutations . |
| 3 | Mr Summerchild , however , was evidently feeling his way towards a quite different sense — the idea of some kind of grading system for our experience , of some variable level of satisfactoriness to which life might attain , and which , as he implied , might be enhanced by various practical means . |
| 4 | In these two examples , the first would be slightly under-hedged if one contract was written against 1000 shares and in the second case over-hedged as two contracts might be written against each 1000 shares held . |
| 5 | agreed that finance would be needed to form and run a North American Division , but there was an Australian Division which had a local levy to raise its funds , which might be affected by any new arrangements for North America . |
| 6 | What we have , further , might be expressed in several different logical notations . |
| 7 | The background to the document has to be sought in Stirling 's fear that he might be absorbed into some top-heavy bureaucracy like Combined Operations or SOE . |
| 8 | This might be regarded as prudent common sense . |
| 9 | Although yields might be increased in certain high-latitude regions , notably Canada and Russia , this would be more than offset by decreases in the tropics . |
| 10 | The size of the forces which might be raised by these primitive and inequitable means , especially at moments of real crisis , should not be under-estimated . |
| 11 | This might be explained by sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies causing uplift without penetrative magmatism developing to a point where volcanic activity occurs at the surface . |
| 12 | Since the dose ( and serum concentrations achieved ) were higher with CI Gammagard , the decreased rate of infection might be explained by higher specific antibody concentrations . |
| 13 | DARWIN believed that elaborate ornamental traits expressed in both sexes might be favoured by mutual sexual selection driven by both female and male mate choice . |
| 14 | That is , although they generally rejected the idea that people might be ‘ converted ’ to homosexuality through seduction , they suggested that some might be tempted into other corrupt activities : |
| 15 | Seaweed or other dressing might be applied in this central raised area where the crop is planted , and the trenches provide drainage . |
| 16 | This is an additional reason for management to create an even more elaborate division of labour than might be warranted from mere technical considerations of the tasks to be done . |
| 17 | I know I 've told you this place might be run by these Chinese Triads , but I want everyone t'remember we 're dealin' mainly with kids here . |
| 18 | Here we can see how the concepts discussed in Chapters 1 and 2 might be extended into contemporary urban and regional sociology . |
| 19 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 20 | The programme will continue , and might be expanded at some later , less fraught juncture . |
| 21 | What reply might be given to all this ? |
| 22 | Apart from the wide range of orientation techniques used , the fact that orientation techniques are switched from year to year within individual libraries , and the fact that maybe several different techniques might be employed in any single library in any one year , is further illustration of uncertainty in this important area of user education . |
| 23 | As regards attitudes , there is the assumption that attitudinal positions , and thereby attitudinal structures , can not be fully developed , for , although they might be developed for given argumentative contexts , they must also look forward to contexts as yet unrealized . |
| 24 | But how many synapses and cells might be involved for any single memory ? |
| 25 | One is to allocate a particular colour to a number of contiguous levels in the image so that , for example , the levels 0–32 might be displayed in dark blue , 33–67 in dark green , 68–87 in cyan , and so on . |
| 26 | Mention might be made of four other special rules relating to the involvement of vulnerable persons in sexual activity . |
| 27 | Homes of suitable shape and size might be made for each individual creature . |
| 28 | In brief , the good leader , the man who could inspire his army , not merely he who could avoid the obvious pitfalls of generalship which Frontinus had pointed out , might be born with certain inherent qualities , but these had to be developed in the only way that could lead to success , through practice and experience . |
| 29 | At a meeting in Canton , China , on Jan. 16-17 , the science working group of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) declared itself more certain than ever that global warming was under way , but agreed that its full impact might be delayed by other human factors , including a limited cooling effect produced by sulphur pollution and ozone depletion . |
| 30 | Using a concept such as objectification , in which the cultural nature of the subject-object relationship is brought to the fore , the lines of this particular debate might be redrawn with important political consequences . |