Example sentences of "of [noun sg] might [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , since all readers of Update might reasonably be expected to have a keen interest in training issues , the Training and Development Lead Body ( TDLB ) has been chosen to illustrate how at least one such organisation has taken up the challenge to develop qualifications for its sector . |
| 2 | Some laws which one might imagine on wilder flights of fancy might well be refused this cooperation . |
| 3 | Devotees of the Hitchcock film will be gratified to hear that Buchan 's book is even more chock-full of incident , cross-country chases , gung-ho and derring-do : a stirring monument to the days when a man of action might still be possessed of a stiff-upper-lipped charm and accomplishment . |
| 4 | ‘ Muni was and is sociologically-minded , ’ said the press-book , and ‘ he had long wished to bring to the American people the picture of these primitive people who worked hard and who died that the wheels of industry might not be stilled ’ . |
| 5 | True , the lawful use of force might then be met with unlawful resistance which would in turn be likely to give rise to harm to the person whose use of force was justified in the first place . |
| 6 | A superficial observer of this piece of jobbery might well be forgiven for commenting : ‘ like father , like son ’ . |
| 7 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |
| 8 | Male victims above the age of consent might well be perceived as homosexual or latently so even if they are not . |
| 9 | A charge of provinciality might perhaps be justified , but the nobility of the design overrides the criticism . |
| 10 | Two types of area might therefore be identified as being particularly vulnerable to structural problems ; the underdeveloped mainly rural areas , and the regions where there is a concentration of declining heavy industries . |
| 11 | This line of thought might also be applied rewardingly to explain one striking feature of divorce statistics . |
| 12 | It recognized that a longer period of detention might also be required in a ‘ small minority ’ of cases concerned with ‘ grave offences ’ . |