Example sentences of "[noun] might be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be the keystone of the defence as well , although the defendant might be prepared to accept the plaintiff 's evidence if it contains nothing controversial . |
| 2 | Perhaps I mean it 's , we do n't know in nineteen , October nineteen forty seven whether the Communist Party actually really did think that absolute egalitarianism might be able to work . |
| 3 | But it does have the advantage of operating on a level where guilt or innocence might be easier to establish and where punishment could be imposed on a state basis . |
| 4 | But as fear of Soviet intentions increased , so some in Britain began to feel that concessions might be necessary in order to secure at least a degree of American backing in the region . |
| 5 | The aminosalicylate reduced the fever , but as salicylates are known to do this it was thought that the effect might be non-specific . |
| 6 | This effect might be welcome in the cities . |
| 7 | It is further suggested that funding for such a programme might be available through the European Community 's information technology programmes . |
| 8 | Fearing that Austrian reprisals might be possible if she stayed on the continent , Hortense decided to take her son to England , stopping off in Paris on their way in the hope that the new King , Louis-Philippe , might allow her to stay there , at least for a time . |
| 9 | Pound replied that Aristophanes might be depressing , and that to raise the heavy phallus to its desired height Dixie folk melodies might be more effective . |
| 10 | Snobbery might be innate in their parents ' way of life , but it could never be admitted . |
| 11 | Ltd v. Heller & Partners Ltd there was considerable debate as to how far monetary loss might be recoverable . |
| 12 | For quiet study conferences , remote old-fashioned , ill-equipped venues in places like Scarborough and Buxton might be great . |
| 13 | There remains one way in which the cost of equity might be low , albeit for a limited period . |
| 14 | He explained that there were a limited number of places , with sixteen or seventeen taken up for September already ( I wondered whether this meant Balbinder might be unlucky , but did not like to ask ) . |
| 15 | This might be adequate to identify the speaker , indeed the expression Ellen might be sufficient . |
| 16 | " Great-grandfather , you must know already that I did all I could to stop Kim taking the gibbon , " he said , whispering aloud in the hope that his fervent words might be audible to his father and grandfather standing a few feet away . |
| 17 | The intended words might be able to be suggested for examples 1 and 4 if a method of whole word recognition were employed , because sleep and steep , boots and books have the same overall shape . |
| 18 | Failing that , it should at least be standard practice to carry out the voters ' register check to show whether or not the information concerns a different person , if different-name information is passed : and we recognise that this alternative might be cheaper . |
| 19 | One problem of working in limited specialty areas is that existing clients might be averse to the idea of employing the same search firm as their rivals ; so Merton , approached by another major retailer with an assignment , cleared the matter with Tesco first . |
| 20 | Where a stocking stitch tension might be 28 stitches in width to 10 cm , placing a cable at the centre might reduce the tension to 8 or 9 cm . |
| 21 | ( Note that unc need not be a normal form program if P is , since the clauses in the IFs might be false or not all distinct . ) |
| 22 | The type of sampling used in the five community studies is quotasampling , and our main concern is not to claim absolute representativeness for the whole city , but to guard ourselves against the accusation that our informants might be hand-picked from amongst friends and neighbours — or , worse , from our students . |
| 23 | It challenges the myth that refuges might be safe but they 're squalid . |
| 24 | But some advocates of public service broadcasting — citing the BBC as an example opposed the ‘ commercial logic ’ advertising would entail : competition between the two state channels might be healthy professionally , it would be pernicious otherwise — ratings wars , lowering of standards , especially during prime time . |
| 25 | Second , as already mentioned the debtor 's evidence is that he was never advised on whether legal aid might be available to him . |
| 26 | In such cases again regional policy aid might be important : the grants were sometimes significant subsidies to the updating of technology , for instance . |
| 27 | We must also avoid branch meetings seem like a gathering of old chums into which an outsider might be shy of intruding . |
| 28 | Thus yellow and roundness might be intrinsic properties of a yellow ball as being among the properties in virtue of the possession of which another ball might be exactly like it . |
| 29 | The new men in the Kremlin might be unsure of themselves and their thinking open to outside suggestions . |
| 30 | She 's finally abandoned any fantasies that if she were five foot two and blonde , life as an actress might be easier . |