Example sentences of "[noun sg] might conceivably " in BNC.
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| 1 | It follows , therefore , that our priorities are based on protecting the welfare not only of individual animals but of groups of animals , and this priority has to be followed even in circumstances where to carry out that protection might conceivably have an adverse effect on the environment . |
| 2 | In view of the technical advance implied it is thought that it was probably he who was the ‘ Mr Showers ’ who was complimented in 1692 for having played in hitherto impossible keys and ‘ with all the softness imaginable ’ ; but at that date the reference might conceivably be to his father or , less probably , his kinsman William . |
| 3 | There may be rare instances where a situation can be covered by one meaning but not by the other ; a police investigation might conceivably report that " criminal activity " ( associative use ) " in the southern suburbs includes ostentatious donations to charity in order to cultivate an image of respectability " ; a lawyer might jocularly speak of criminal activity having sharply increased in his legal chambers ( though intuitive awareness of the ambiguity might just as well make him avoid the phrase ) ; in both these cases the associative interpretation , only , is required . |
| 4 | But this definition might conceivably cover a pastoral or nomadic society which , indeed , found a bond of union in the patriarch or head of the family who , in some sort , discharged the powers of government . |
| 5 | A stubbornly reactionary tsar might conceivably have delayed the measure , but the key to the decision to emancipate lies considerably deeper than the mind of Alexander . |
| 6 | It was clear , however , that an unwise or ill-advised Monarch might conceivably act in a manner which could be construed as partial , in that it appeared to reflect a royal preference for one particular group within the party . |