Example sentences of "might [adv] be [verb] as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Of course they are for internal consideration only , but because there is the intention of some discussion at June CED Conference on Government Joint Funding and on Resource Sharing , I thought these two papers might profitably be circulated as background material .
2 The Vendor is not party in relation to the Business or subject to any contract , covenant , commitments or arrangement of an onerous , unusual or long-term nature or having any provision which might reasonably be regarded as material for disclosure to a purchaser for value of the Business nor is it party to any contract likely to be unprofitable or to any contract made otherwise than in the ordinary and usual course of business as now carried on .
3 The Vendor can not say whether any contracts contain a provision which ‘ might reasonably be regarded as material for disclose to a purchase of the value of the Business ’ .
4 More generally , the Auvergne might reasonably be seen as representative of many Merovingian dioceses ; Clermont was not a royal capital , nor was it a cult centre of major importance .
5 The capitulation of the General Council on the 12 May , and its decision to call off the strike without any guarantees that those involved would not be victimized , might also be seen as evidence of failure .
6 If a worshipper were to make a fetish of his stone or metal image , however , then that might correctly be construed as idolatry , but such an attitude has to be distinguished from the element of sacredness that worshippers often attribute to temples , churches and mosques or to books such as the Bible , the Koran or the Gītā .
7 In the early 1980s the need to incorporate IT within the teaching of publishing led to participation in industrial panels monitoring the development and adoption of SGML ( Standard Generalized Mark-up Language ) , investment in the first generation of dedicated word-processors , and research into communication protocols between what might now be characterized as taciturn dinosaurs .
8 Restrictions on the private ownership and sale of agricultural land were lifted , and land redistributed under previous agrarian reforms might now be used as collateral against agricultural loans .
9 The extent to which the pattern of articulation errors reflects the difficulties experienced by ‘ normal ’ children and might therefore be considered as part of a developmental sequence .
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