Example sentences of "[noun] might be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenant farmers with a year 's rent arrears might be evicted on a fortnight 's notice . |
| 2 | The rubric will include data on which a reply might be based and an indication of the tone required . |
| 3 | What reply might be given to all this ? |
| 4 | The story as a whole only begins to make sense when the reader appreciates that , in appropriate circumstances , all these roles might be filled by one and the same individual . |
| 5 | How their roles might be enhanced in recognition of the behavioural literature will be examined to some extent in chapter 9 . |
| 6 | in whom the power to discontinue any criminal proceedings at any stage before judgment is delivered is vested by section 94(3) ( c ) of the Constitution of Jamaica , considered that the plea of guilty to manslaughter should not have been accepted and decided to discontinue the proceedings in this case in order that the defendant might be charged with the murder on a fresh indictment . |
| 7 | Perhaps graduates of a number of drama schools might be given a provisional Equity card requiring a minimum number of engagements ( and/or weeks ) to be worked within the two or three years of it 's validity , if the holder is to be accepted into full membership . |
| 8 | In May , the McNair Committee had reported on the future of teacher training ; late in July the Fleming Report suggested some of the ways in which the Public Schools might be integrated into the national educational system . |
| 9 | Schools might be encouraged to use INSET resources to enable subject teachers to teach together and review the curriculum in their own subject areas . |
| 10 | Choppy Spencer , you 've heard Harvey Markovitch suggest that if schools opted out certain very important facets of the schools might be trimmed down terrifically , or might be excluded altogether , like for instance music teaching . |
| 11 | The Report suggested two ways in which direct-grant and other schools might be drawn into patterns of local provision : either as full-grant schools ( a new category ) , or as voluntary-aided or controlled schools along the well-established lines defined in 1944 . |
| 12 | Pictures might be found in books which ‘ look like ’ the family pet , and these could be discussed . |
| 13 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 14 | The same sentiment appears in Lagunas Nitrate Company v Lagunas Syndicate , where it is suggested , somewhat eccentrically , that effect might be given to it by allowing the directors to plead the defence of volenti non fit iniuria . |
| 15 | The group reviewed evidence that the warming effect might be delayed by the high levels of sulphur dioxide present in the atmosphere as a result of industrial pollution , on account of the gas 's property of reflecting some of the sun 's incoming heat . |
| 16 | Sharing a common modality may be enough to produce generalization decrement and thus , according to the account presented above , an overshadowing effect might be expected with these stimuli . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A review of screening and preventive care of older people by the Royal College of General Practitioners published in 1987 indicated particular ‘ high risk ’ groups for whom screening might be targeted . |
| 19 | Watch the traffic outside for things that move fast or more slowly ; the cars might be counted and compared for size , shape or colour . |
| 20 | The positive heuristic is comprised of rough guidelines indicating how the research programme might be developed . |
| 21 | This coherent programme might be compared with modern sociology , much of which is sufficiently concerned with empirical data to satisfy the falsificationist if not the inductivist criteria of good science and yet fails miserably to emulate the success of physics . |
| 22 | However , we are equally conscious that some colleges may find the pace of development too slow for their needs and are concerned to explore ways in which some of the aims of the Programme might be accelerated for those colleges which wish to develop their provision rapidly . |
| 23 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 24 | Small businesses are considered risky investments and a small organisation 's borrowing capability might be limited . |
| 25 | Stifling her yawns and fighting to keep her eyes open during the Litany of the Saints , she wrestled with the problem , terrified that Tristram might be caught trespassing but unable to think of any way to warn him . |
| 26 | He wished all the units had gone self-governing to allow the district to concentrate on its needs assessment and purchasing role and predicted that the units might be expecting a cosier relationship than he anticipated . |
| 27 | Thus the control and data manipulation units might be timed by one clock , the store by a second , and each transput device by its own clock . |
| 28 | Although the officers of these contrasting units might be held responsible for both the good and the bad behaviour , there is a touch of the ‘ kind ’ and the ‘ nasty ’ treatment often meted out to prisoners in the hope of gaining information . |
| 29 | Mr Les Aspin , the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , warned that US military police units might be forced to stay in Panama for at least a year to help keep the peace . |
| 30 | A further judgment which affected press practices was made on June 24 when the court ruled 5:4 that news organizations might be sued for breaking promises of confidentiality to their sources . |