Example sentences of "might [prep] [adj] [noun] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Read v. Lyons , for instance , Lord Simonds remarked that ‘ the judgment of Blackburn J. in the case itself shows that the law of nuisance and the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher might in most cases be invoked indifferently . ’ |
| 2 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 3 | The Chief Secretary then sought to imply that the Government might in some way be forced by the EC to extend the coverage of VAT . |
| 4 | Soldiers , psychiatrists , and priests might on this basis be classified together as social controllers ; doctors and perhaps teachers should be classified as sustainers : the proper theoretical place for them is as the maintenance engineers of labour power ; playwrights , philosophers , accountants , sociologists , and lawyers must be classified together as conceptive ideologists . |
| 5 | But Douglas , concerned about numbers , was against any diminution of their main assembly which might at any time be faced with confronting Balliol 's entire army . |
| 6 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 7 | And Sadler knew that he would strike a responsive note with his claim that the voluntary evening classes were ‘ wasteful of human material which might by timely care be made more serviceable to the State ’ . |