Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] might [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Factor analysis indicates a structure of attitudes similar to that reported earlier ( Turner and Clift , 1985 , op. cit. ) for Solihull teachers : that attitudes might be classified under five headings , towards the professionalism , potency and enthusiasm for SSE , about all of which Oxfordshire teachers are moderately positive and towards the efficiency and collegiality of SSE about which they are moderately negative . |
| 2 | From the investigation of distracting unattended words we can conclude that words are recognised before they are fixated , and that meanings might be useful in guiding our eyes efficiently across the text . |
| 3 | The hope that owls might be effective rat catchers inspired researchers to take a closer look at the habits of these opportunistic birds . |
| 4 | They pointed out that adders might be endangered in some parts of the country but they are thriving north of the border . |
| 5 | Pound replied that Aristophanes might be depressing , and that to raise the heavy phallus to its desired height Dixie folk melodies might be more effective . |
| 6 | It was possible that flares might be dropped . |
| 7 | It challenges the myth that refuges might be safe but they 're squalid . |
| 8 | They believe that Jesus died so that sins might be forgiven , and therefore that this story is an illustration of this truth . |
| 9 | It was hoped , he said , that funds might be made available by the county council this autumn so that work could begin but county would need a detailed report . |
| 10 | A small rump felt that computers might be employed to deliver information otherwise inaccessible to history students . |
| 11 | But as fear of Soviet intentions increased , so some in Britain began to feel that concessions might be necessary in order to secure at least a degree of American backing in the region . |
| 12 | We can suppose , however , that associations might be formed between the stimulus and the context in which it is presented . |
| 13 | ‘ But you think that appearances might be deceptive , is that it , Hua ? ’ |
| 14 | Here , it carried with it the notion of breaking down not only the school/community barrier but also the school/curriculum barrier by suggesting that parents might be directly involved in the education of their children by participating in classes . |
| 15 | Instead of vulture banks , the study suggests that turkeys might be a better name for those whose stock prices were on average 15% lower than that of their peer group — or dead ducks for those 25% lower . |
| 16 | The feeling that incomers might be a problem necessitates ways in which one can prove this and attempt to ameliorate the situation . |
| 17 | However , Dr Tim Synott of the Oxford Forestry Institute suggested that plantations might be suitable on some formerly-forested lands that had become so degraded as to have very little biological value . |
| 18 | While monopoles fail to oblige experimenters and continue to evade detection , they also fail to oblige those astrophysicists who had thought that monopoles might be the answer to the problem of the missing solar neutrinos . |
| 19 | He was scathing about the notion that Indians might be pacified by political concession , observing of the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms that : ‘ If the Indians are capable of providing the directorate , they must surely be capable of providing the agents ’ . |
| 20 | There was also a chance that plants might be stolen and Collinson reported in January 1751 , ‘ … to my great loss , some prying , knowing people looked into the cases and out of that numbered 2 took the three roots of Chamaerhododendron , honey laurel , root of silver-leaved arum and the Spirea alnifolio … |
| 21 | The Supreme Court was reported on Jan. 11 , 1989 , as ruling unanimously that universities might be forced to hand over confidential evaluation records on academic tenure . |
| 22 | The Minister said that changes might be made by the trustees only with the approval of the Scottish Transport Group board and also with the approval of those voting at a meeting of members of the scheme . |
| 23 | The court disapproved of the reference to inconvenience and expense ( which the judge omitted in the present case ) as increasing the risk that jurors might be seduced from their duty by the attractions of finality ( a result , their Lordships would observe , which will usually favour the prosecution ) and further considered the direction in the context of majority verdicts . |
| 24 | As for the idea that scallops might be cooked in one minute and no more , that old chef was genuinely outraged by it . |
| 25 | Although the students had few problems in discerning a variety of viable strategies for presenting new lexis in such a way that learners might be thought to be able to perceive its meaning without the intervention of English , the areas of structure and discourse proved less tractable . |
| 26 | Certainly when the population was declining , one would expect that tenants might be hard to find and that concessions to them might be necessary , either in the form of a rent reduction or a cut in the entry fine , or in an extension of the period of the lease . |
| 27 | The authors contented themselves with noting that things might be improved by more flexible and continuous transfer ( and not only at age thirteen ) , by the introduction of General Certificate of Education courses in the secondary modern schools , and by the creation of comprehensive schools . |
| 28 | I 'm just saying that things might be less confused , and less dangerous , if he could soberly entertain the idea of being homosexual . |
| 29 | Because the greatness of man is to see that things might be otherwise — to look at the world around him , and to see another world beneath its surface . ’ |
| 30 | He had said that things might be going to change . |