Example sentences of "might [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patients who cost a lot might be turned away by a GP . |
| 2 | No , Kensington and Kennington might be separated only by a letter of the alphabet but the streets that came between them took you out of one world and into another . |
| 3 | This might be regarded either as a kind of dune slack or as a type of poor fen . |
| 4 | The second better suits such cases as the complete works of a given author , which might be regarded simultaneously as a single text in its own right and as a series of independent texts . |
| 5 | John Stevenson has noted the importance of transport networks , with riots occurring not only at sea ports but also along inland waterways where corn might be moved out of a district , such as on the Trent or Avon . |
| 6 | You might be locked up for a long time , or you might be given a fine , which is taken out of your weekly allowance . |
| 7 | She was in danger of losing her beloved Mrs Howard , who might be setting up with a brother-in-law in a public house , and I wrote : |
| 8 | A small budget might be swallowed up with a few very expensive cases . |
| 9 | She might be go out for a hike later in her slippers . |
| 10 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 11 | Anxious that his client might be mixed up with a terrorist organisation . |
| 12 | Miki was worried that this important development might be passed off as a fad , a ‘ scene ’ people will get tired of : ‘ To some people it 's already a gimmick , but it 's very important , a lot of people have a lot to say . |
| 13 | As heavy , active drinkers are more likely to have a faster turnover of erythrocytes than reformed drinkers this might be put forward as a reason why our reformed drinkers did not have high pitted red cell counts . |
| 14 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 15 | On some canals a pair of donkeys might be used instead of a horse . |
| 16 | The value of each tactic is considered not just for the problem itself , but as an approach that might be used again on a future occasion so that the person can learn how better to cope with future problems ( Gelder , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | In the light of this , A's utterance might be taken simply as a request for confirmation that the assumption in [ 15c ] is indeed the one B intended to convey , or , in other words , that the utterance in [ 15c ] is indeed an adequate representation of the one in [ 15b ] . |
| 18 | Her deliberate breach of protocol at No. 10 might be construed partly as a late revenge for those teenage tortures , though her anger , now transmuted into political sloganising , runs deeper than mere petulance . |
| 19 | This is so even though the exact economic effect might be carried out through a transaction which , in form , was registrable as a security interest in the goods . |
| 20 | N may be too large for there to be room for that number of add instructions to be held economically in the store , or the value of N may not be known when the program is being prepared ( for example it might be read in as a piece of data ) . |