Example sentences of "[verb] it might [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman is asking a question which he knows will receive no answer , because the nature of a deterrent is that it remains uncertain — the nation that has it might be prepared to use it . |
| 2 | If you have so much time to spare , I suggest it might be more profitably spent taking some fresh air . ’ |
| 3 | But now that we 're getting or going to get presumably more involved in union matters it might be advantageous if we could have a minute taker . |
| 4 | And I expect it might be there though now . |
| 5 | Some merely regard their function as a necessary official procedure best conducted with the least possible fuss and difficulty , while others regard themselves as the only impartial authority capable of investigating a sequence of events involving fatality no matter how technically complicated it might be . |
| 6 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 7 | Have n't you considered it might be the woman they were with ? |
| 8 | Yes , but you 'd been to the flat at about ten thirty in the evening before was there anything you heard or seen at the flat to indicate it might be a hostage situation ? |
| 9 | One view holds it might be worth preserving only information derived from the telecommunications record , but that it would make little sense to keep it all . |
| 10 | Portsmouth and Gosport between them , he estimated , were protected by only 1000 men and under the right conditions , perhaps after a gale , when few ships were at anchor there , Hamilton believed it might be possible to gain control of Spithead and get men ashore both on the Isle of Wight and at Stokes Bay , on the seaward side of Gosport , and Spit Bank . |
| 11 | ‘ What with this septi … whassname it might be the last you 'll get . ’ |
| 12 | Other people tempted to rearrange borders for ethnic reasons ( Hungarians looking at western Romania , Greeks eyeing southern Albania , Russians glaring this way and that ) will have to go on making their own calculations about how much they really want that bit of the country next door , how tricky seizing it might be , and so on . |
| 13 | The author , Gavin Alexander , until recently head of Hampton School in Middlesex , for boys aged 11 to 18 years , says it might be better for 13-year-old pupils to be assessed in this way rather than sitting the Common Entrance and then being assessed again a year later . |
| 14 | Mr Litmus says it might be some kind of tribesman . ’ |
| 15 | VIZ magazine creator Chris Donald is right when he says it might be time to call it a day . |
| 16 | She is not impressed at the concept of working for dole money and says it might be a better idea to give people a minimum wage for doing community work . |
| 17 | Because she had felt it might be vaguely suitable she had chosen to read a volume of Donne |
| 18 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 19 | Has a deal been struck ? and if a deal has been struck , what do you feel it might be ? and do you really mind , as long as these people have been released ? |
| 20 | But I hope it might be a spur to some positive discussion , Tuesday morning er and terminating absolutely at one o'clock . |
| 21 | It seemed it might be one of those nights when frustration would creep in and undermine Villa 's supremacy . |
| 22 | From what we have seen it might be supposed that private judicial patronage was more trouble than it was worth , but the offices were in fact received as a sign of favour by many lawyers , who could of course use them as stepping stones to better things . |
| 23 | If you intend to use the language of flowers to send a message on your card or picture it might be a good idea to put a rough translation on the back or inside the card to avoid confusion , just in case there is more than one meaning for a particular flower ! |
| 24 | raised the curiosity of some ladies , who happened to be at the Castle in May 1782 , to examine the ruined Chapel , and observing a large block of alabaster , fixed in the North wall of the Chapel , they imagined it might be the back of a monument formerly placed there . |
| 25 | So Janet , your question , which is not as I in , intimated it might be at all , so you , you can be well annoyed , erm , if you 're setting up a , a joint life policy with waiver premium on both people , and the wife is fifty one , and the husband is forty , how much will be deducted from their units according to waiver of premiums ? |
| 26 | I 've often thought it might be better if I had more intimate knowledge . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps because I 've always thought it might be nice to have a honeymoon in Venice . ’ |
| 28 | He had thought it might be so and now he had the Proof . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've always thought it might be worth trying , ’ said Dorcas , ‘ but is this the right time ? ’ |
| 30 | I can see it might be tiresome for you . |