Example sentences of "[adv] it might be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll can I just check sensibly it might be something |
| 2 | On the other hand , however much it might be in demand , Indian patronage was never plentiful , for it fluctuated from one year to the next in accordance with Indian needs rather than the wishes of the Scottish politician . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I only have a few thousand invested , but it is very worrying when you can not get your money back , and there is no way of knowing how long it might be or how much I will get back . ’ |
| 4 | They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again . |
| 5 | When considering this option , bear in mind how long it might be before your retire — if it is likely to be 35 years , then the pension loan is not for you . |
| 6 | Mind you when I said it 's got ta come down it might be five years before it comes down , but you 've got ta think of your outlay first . |
| 7 | I do n't know — perhaps it might be you . |
| 8 | Sam found himself wondering if perhaps it might be best to save some of the money instead of going mad . |
| 9 | Perhaps it might be disputed whether , after living in the USA for nearly half a century , Miss McPartland is still British . |
| 10 | Perhaps it might be claimed that the major important variables in measuring population growth rates and their causes are technically easier than those measuring soil erosion rates and their causes . |
| 11 | Just as we have found it convenient to think of genes as active agents , working purposefully for their own survival , perhaps it might be convenient to think of memes in the same way . |
| 12 | Erm perhaps it might be an idea |
| 13 | Perhaps it might be Charlie Chaplin , a bit of a comic one or or summat like that and er |
| 14 | And so er we 're expecting perhaps it might be a little bit lively . |
| 15 | Though perhaps it might be as well to remove the smuts from your face . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It — er — depends how — um — busy Barney is , ’ she made up as she went along , and with relief was let off the hook a little while her mother commented on how hard Barney worked , and how , if he could n't take his holiday quite as early as he 'd planned , that perhaps it might be a good idea for Cara to stay touring with her , and maybe take a plane to America from Czechoslovakia . |
| 17 | So we get involved quite a lot in looking at teaching in various parts of the university where people want us to , very often involving the students as well as the other teachers in looking at a particular course and seeing if there are ways in which perhaps it might be taught differently or in a way that worked better . |
| 18 | She knew it in all its moods , the formless expanse of a dark winter morning , the bright sparkle of summer , when the water , however dirty it might be really , seemed to have the freshness of faraway springs . |
| 19 | If she said it often enough it might be true . |
| 20 | I know she does n't like me having too many dresses because we ca n't afford it , and I do n't mind — only it might be the wrong colour . ’ |
| 21 | It 's only it might be in the ROM mode , to do that . |
| 22 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 23 | So it might be assumed that Scott 's design was placed higher than the other Gothic entries because it showed the two offices as separate structures , rather than one . |
| 24 | He 's also got editing equipment so it might be the sort of thing that you know like you 'll be able to take it away and say you know , this section , that bit and then |
| 25 | so it might be that he could come , erm , anyway I 'll give you a copy of that |
| 26 | So it might be with a bit of help from you , y you could teach them a valuable lesson . |
| 27 | Good so it might be it might be something like B R O three or B R O or B R O two something like but it would have oxygen to go with it . |
| 28 | Right , sounds like there 's a bit on topics in there so it might be worth having a look at anyway . |
| 29 | So we do n't want P S Two mouse , so it might be a , it might be just a serial port there after all then . |
| 30 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |