Example sentences of "and [noun sg] might [adv] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem , in the months that followed , to have lived with a new intensity , half-knowing that their shared joy in creativity and friendship might never be repeated . |
| 2 | His privilege and independence might further be seen to confer the trappings of a ‘ humaneness ’ which in truth was only a benign counterpart of the more brutal colonialism that appalled him . |
| 3 | In this way power and love might both be enjoyed , as we see them being enjoyed by the heroes of a thousand school stories . |
| 4 | Until the middle of the sixteenth century there was considerable hope , held by the Emperor Charles V among others , that the breach between Catholic and Protestant might yet be closed ; the abortive visit of the Protestant envoys to the Council of Trent in 1551 showed once and for all that that hope was delusive . |
| 5 | ‘ By this means , the peaceful penetration of foreign markets , a state that possessed all the outward political attributes of independence and power might nevertheless be robbed of the internal , material , politico-economic bases of such independence and power . ’ |