Example sentences of "[verb] might be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth considering if and how those already validated might be open to review ( possibly under the 1981 Minerals Act ? ) in light of the outcome of the Carmel case . |
| 2 | With someone like say Schmeichel in goal , the defensive cock ups you make might be ok . |
| 3 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 4 | ‘ Who do you think might be responsible for all these things you ca n't explain ? |
| 5 | For example if I 'm looking at O-level history , ‘ What sorts of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ ’ |
| 6 | Now for example if I 'm looking at O level history , what sort of things do you think might be important , or what kinds of evidence do you think I ought to collect , or what issues do you think I ought to take into account ? ’ . |
| 7 | But we know that buying a carpet is n't something you do every day , and some general advice before you shop might be welcome . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you think , ’ his prosecution pressed him , ‘ that what you were doing , what you were being asked to do or what you had done might be wrong ? ’ |
| 9 | There is first the admission of cravings , sexual and other , felt as unspeakably ignoble , and there is the unappeased fear that the very gifts on whose existence all rescue depends might be mere fantasy , delusion . |
| 10 | Thirdly , factors which were not measured might be important . |
| 11 | This chart could then be used as the basis for an essay or a piece of revision and — although the words used might be different — you would , in fact , end up by saying just what I said in that portion of text above . |
| 12 | If that were so , one accused might be guilty on the basis of concert but the other could be guilty also on the basis only of his own actings . |
| 13 | So any tax-free cash that she 's got might be useful . |
| 14 | Well he has to put the suit on , try it on in the shop , to make sure it , wear his shoes there cos even , the shoes he 's got might be alright with it . |
| 15 | Bielle is where you join the main valley road , and four miles to the south of it is Laruns , a neat and pleasing little town with a real town square which I have more than once thought might be good to stay in . |
| 16 | Christian Aid is not in a position itself to set up and service all the training which it is envisaged might be useful to supporters . |
| 17 | Network SouthEast has improved its performance beyond what anyone could have dreamed might be possible . |
| 18 | Those with a blank space on a wall to fill might be interested in the Penis Poster ( 23 by 35 inches ) , which depicts 12 animal penises ( man to whale ) . |
| 19 | others in the area that they know might be interested in having the pre er prestige er prestige being in the booklet . |
| 20 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 21 | I mean it is nice that you do n't know anybody who you feel might be despairing . |
| 22 | If you are the victim of a burglary , the value of the property that has been stolen might be large or small , but the emotional upset and the feeling that someone else has been in your home can live with you for a long time . |
| 23 | The damages I suppose might be different , depending which er what kind of breach you succeed on . |
| 24 | What Lamb is saying might be true but I doubt it . |
| 25 | Usually the patient is taken into one of these units for a specified period such as a fortnight , but the time allocated might be indefinite in an emergency , for instance if the carer is ill . |
| 26 | As far as I was concerned , men and boys constituted a separate species , with whom I had nothing in common , and the last thing I wanted to do ( had I given the matter any thought ) was to arouse their interest , which I feared might be predatory . |
| 27 | ‘ What sort of information do you suppose might be acceptable ? ’ |
| 28 | As she had little dress sense , only a vague fear that any hat or dress she chose might be vulgar , so she had no sense of a possible style in which to decorate a house , or even a dining table , for Christmas . |
| 29 | Perhaps simple ‘ familiarity ’ of the rules and persons involved might be better in defining the inside , i.e. just feeling ‘ at home ’ with things indicates where the internal boundaries lie . |
| 30 | The second part , I thought might be useful to members in explaining in more detail what each of the schemes were about . |