Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] as [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a typical conversational pronunciation of these sentences , the first tone-unit of ( a ) and the second and fourth tone-units of ( b ) might be treated as intonationally subordinate ; the prosodic characteristics marking this are usually ( i ) a drop to a lower part of the pitch range ( ‘ low key ’ ) , ( ii ) increased speed , ( iii ) narrower range of pitch and ( iv ) lower loudness , relative to the non-subordinate tone-unit(s) . |
| 2 | Further , as is often the case , the clinical conditions might be regarded as rather extreme cases of variability in the ease with which we adjust our body clock , a process that is found normally within the human population . |
| 3 | Miss Danziger judged that the story would be over-carefully related that morning , for many of the children were very young and the more lurid details of the massacre might be regarded as too frightening for them . |
| 4 | These memoranda , although generally avoiding comment that might be regarded as politically partisan on the question of the desirability or otherwise of devolution , contain passages which were bluntly , even scathingly , critical of the statements of the means by which the government hoped to achieve their objectives . |
| 5 | In places , where anything short of purposeful warning might be misinterpreted as either suspicious loitering or aberrant vacancy , the normal person feels obliged to put on a show , which tells anyone who might be watching that orderly motives are in hand . |
| 6 | Because they hold that the difference between a talking creature and a non-talking creature reflects a quite fundamental discontinuity , most social anthropologists might be described as operationally anti-Darwinian ! |