Example sentences of "might [be] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be a pretty upsetting business . ’ |
| 2 | Come on Aria , the Mad Axe might be a reasonably cheap guitar but it looks and sounds upmarket and it deserves a more upmarket name . |
| 3 | If these are the lessons of prudence , then standing back from the official portrait of crime and criminals and looking at it critically might be a very beneficial move towards getting our heads straight . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that might be a very good thing , ’ she replied , ‘ This … this thing that has happened to us is unnatural and wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ It might be a very short-lived interest indeed . |
| 6 | I might believe er it might be a very easy option er for those in power to put in the increased |
| 7 | Well … it looked as if tomorrow might be a very hectic day indeed . |
| 8 | Where there might be a very small number |
| 9 | No doubt , she thought , a visitor might be a very unwelcome distraction in his entrenched life . |
| 10 | It might be a very important date . ’ |
| 11 | It might be a very tight thing that looks almost like this . |
| 12 | For all you know he might be a very shady character . ’ |
| 13 | This suggests this might be a more suitable approach for use in Quadrant 3 type activities . |
| 14 | Possibly early balloon counterpulsation to offset the expected deterioration in renal function might be a more worthwhile approach to management than later in an attempt to reverse such a deterioration in renal state . |
| 15 | It might be a more rational motive than murdering for a person ; less risk of subsequent disenchantment . ’ |
| 16 | Improving the quality of professional training and decision making might be a more cost-effective solution to the problem of supply-led services . |
| 17 | But even if you went in as researcher who 's going to interview them , and a , and informal way which might be a more appropriate method , you 'd still have considerable difficulty in that there is , they 'll spin you a yarn and whatnot , you know what they wanted you think rather than what what they should . |
| 18 | In the long term , that might be a more effective way of encouraging investment than some of the short-term proposals that we have heard today . |
| 19 | Its stated aim is to ‘ advise ’ schools , but ‘ active encouragement ’ might be a more accurate description of its activities . |
| 20 | On the other hand , with the industrial might of the TGWU behind the farm worker , there might be a more realistic chance of narrowing the gap between industrial and agricultural wages . |
| 21 | If local government is solely about the local administration of national services , then the possibility of comparison will be severely limited and privatization might be a more advisable option . |
| 22 | Contemporary popular music , in fact , with its fine tuning of genre mutations and blurrings and its rapid responsiveness to demographics , might be a more productive place than popular cinema from which to start thinking about the processes of television genre . |
| 23 | This is not always an appealing counterfactual comparison , not least because merger might be a more attractive alternative for firms than both independent and co-operative R&D . |
| 24 | Some of us felt that , you know , the fifty percent , if that were the crucial figure , and doubling the food poisoning for instance , might have been , might be a more snappy headline . |
| 25 | I know you found your tent , but perhaps you thought this might be a more comfortable bivouac than my cottage ? |
| 26 | But there has to be something to trigger the interest in the first place and whatever that is and however mild a form that might be lust , lust might be a more extreme form of it , but there has to be something to interest you in the first place , before you can go on to love , to knowing more about the person and having this in love feeling develop into love . |
| 27 | Accordingly workers striking on an economic upswing often found employers more ready to negotiate than to prosecute , although if masters decided to combine to take on the union by resisting a wage demand or even enforcing a cut and bound themselves not to employ each other 's dismissed workmen , the law might be a more ready resort . |
| 28 | That might be an amazingly good idea . |
| 29 | Let us now consider ( 39 ) where the word plastered follows its noun ( again , an attributive interpretation is possible in principle — Clara might be an offensively wealthy tourist who travels round Italy trying to buy buildings and parts of buildings to take home as souvenirs ; but we shall assume that this meaning can safely be left out of account ) : ( 39 ) Clara wants the façade plastered It at once becomes apparent that this may specify either an event , with the façade on the receiving end of it , or a state which Clara wishes to see existing in the façade . |
| 30 | It might be an apparently intractable problem with the union , with negative attitudes all round , with inequitable payment systems , with incompetent management and interfering personnel departments . |