Example sentences of "[noun] might [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The modern equivalent of Mary Queen of Scots might well be the unsuccessful businesswoman who owes her position to her family , and therefore profoundly irritates women who are achieving success — against the natural order of things . |
| 2 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 3 | A comment of interest , when subscriptions to pay for the bell were not forthcoming appears in the Church magazine : " This is a matter which the Non-conformist might reasonably be expected to support , a fine peal of bells is something for all inhabitants of Halling to be proud of , they are rung on many occasions , which have nothing to do with church services " . |
| 4 | These influences might partly be attributed to the official who authenticated the Cologne decree , Asclipiodus . |
| 5 | Any decline in water loss might also be partly offset by the resulting increase in atmospheric water vapour pressure deficit . |
| 6 | The plaintiff might be self-employed in some business or profession and the court 's task in assessing his net loss might then be more difficult . |
| 7 | Because coalescence can be in my view a very important issue in deciding which sectors might well be the id=375s1 |
| 8 | Our debate on who our clients might actually be concluded last week at a very important point . |
| 9 | For example , an office held at pleasure might nevertheless be subject to procedural fairness where the statutory scheme would be less effective if the right to be heard were not implied . |
| 10 | Clinical microdialysis coupled to depth electrode EEG recordings might therefore be useful as a diagnostic aid and help in defining the epileptogenic region for surgical resection . |
| 11 | Ritual might properly be considered a stage between this present section , on preparing the hearth , and the next , on lighting the fire , for U can be a means of enlivening a situation and of allowing positive energies to flow into the structure prepared . |
| 12 | The patient should sit correctly at all times : he should not have to hold his hemiplegic leg up with his unaffected leg , as this is tiring for him , and creates the danger that his outstretched legs might easily be jarred or hit . |
| 13 | And , paradoxically , as Durkheim was to recognize , a certain amount of crime might even be necessary to keep society in a healthy state , on its toes — as it were . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The alternative view is that the reason for the present rule regarding skill and knowledge is that without it the employee might well be prevented from earning his living in the area in which he has the greatest experience . |
| 16 | Prior to circulating interested parties , we would wish to consider how the proposed deal might best be structured to yield the greatest post-tax return to you and your family . |
| 17 | As regards the latter , Rhee had stated on many occasions that Korea must be reunited ; given his advanced age , the President might well be tempted to accomplish this sooner rather than later . |
| 18 | The President might only be removed from office by the Congress of People 's Deputies in the event of his violating the Constitution or the law . |
| 19 | A degree of violence might also be sufficient to control certain types of behaviour for which conviction was difficult or unlikely . |
| 20 | Visits of inspectors and college tutors might well be occasions for staff discussions on new plans and projects . |
| 21 | Total defeat might yet be averted ; military successes elsewhere might lead to a negotiated peace , but the chance of quick and absolute victory was gone forever . |
| 22 | Nagel identifies four classes of situation in which the agent might plausibly be regarded as lacking control . |
| 23 | Cos Sue might well be coming there . |
| 24 | In the subgroup of patients who are treated with two injections daily , adequate gall bladder concentration might also be achieved after dinner . |
| 25 | A petition to them might bring assistance for a particular project , but their schools received little attention : salaries were simply noted in the accounts and no one stopped to consider whether £10 which had been generous by the standards of earlier centuries might now be inadequate . |
| 26 | It is likely that a combination of these modalities with radiotherapy might also be complimentary . |
| 27 | In a hundred years ' time a solitary figure might well be seen on a lonely road gazing down into the valley , wondering about ‘ Little Hintock ’ . |
| 28 | It would be madness to attempt entry on the flank nearest the house where the pale , sinister figure might still be on watch . |
| 29 | A minority of us thought that some schools should be integrated as sixth-form colleges , or centres , to which entry might properly be academically competitive . |
| 30 | The drift to a cappella solutions might also be interpreted as a reaction to the individualism and subjectivism of the 1960s , both of which have lingered so long in the performance of medieval and ( some ) Renaissance music . |