Example sentences of "[pron] might [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might just be that eency , weency bit lazy . |
| 2 | If I set it to the same frequency as the only Mark I Super C64 in existence , I might just be able to contact an old friend of ours . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I wo n't promise anything , ’ she said following him , ‘ I 've never tackled a job like it before but I might just be able to make a built-up boot for you . ’ |
| 4 | I might just be able to win over the Review Board . |
| 5 | It was n't exactly my fault , but I was totally involved , and I might just be able to do something about it , with the skull of the ancient hound , the Factory 's help and a little luck . |
| 6 | There were fifteen minutes to opening time , which meant I might just be able to head Duncan the Drunken off at the pass . |
| 7 | ‘ I think I might just be able to totter from chair to chair , ’ she said , smiling sweetly at him . |
| 8 | I might even be able to think of a n interesting way to make a larger profit that I would by tamely handing or over the Fraxillians . |
| 9 | The prospect of escape was beguiling ; I might even be able to crawl in beside Helen for an hour . |
| 10 | Well fifty pence a year , I think I might even be able to afford to belong to it . |
| 11 | I might even be younger than Gesner . |
| 12 | I might conceivably be interested merely in a hypothetical situation , trying to decide , say , what consequences would follow if p were true , without wishing to commit myself one way or the other ( although , as will be shown later on , one can not coherently posit the possibility of p being true except with regard to possible truth claims that might be made in respect of it ) . |
| 13 | What had happened to us could not , I thought , have been due entirely to education — not even to the idea that girls develop more quickly than boys to a certain point and then slow down ; but as I still clung loyally to my little world where all clergymen were good , all solicitors honest , and all philosophers and experts different from ordinary people and unquestionably right , I struggled hard against any idea that I might still be wiser than Bertrand Russell in some respects . |
| 14 | Mercifully the Long Island Expressway , which Mrs Meadows had warned them might well be one long traffic jam , was proving to be relatively uncrowded . |
| 15 | He had n't yet said who ‘ they ’ were , but Robert had a fairly good idea that some of them might well be unemployed young men pretending to be Muslims in order to worm their way into jobs that should have been occupied by the Faithful . |
| 16 | Lawyers can usually be relied upon to tell detainees of their rights in a way that suggests that some of them might actually be useful . |
| 17 | improving decision making which might otherwise be slower and a result of compromise because of differentiated authority ; |
| 18 | I think Lane was attempting to intimidate me in relation to his further questions , answers to which might otherwise be critical of the police , and in this he partly succeeded . |
| 19 | contribution rule and extend the rebate system to help those special groups which might otherwise be disadvantaged . |
| 20 | A year later ( in his celebrated address to the National Press Club ) Acheson raised the question whether American military assistance to Southeast Asia might provide ‘ the missing component in a problem which might otherwise be unsolved ’ . |
| 21 | Being on good terms with dischargers is essential for the field man to do his job efficiently : it allows him access to property whenever necessary , enabling him to carry out inspections , and to raise matters which might otherwise be sensitive . |
| 22 | This cultural expression is used both as a safety-value of light , communal entertainment in situations which might otherwise be tense , boring and/or tedious , and also as a tool of protest in itself with which to unify and cement the groups ' sense of identity and purpose . |
| 23 | Albeit with differing electrical systems , these units were of similar external appearance and brought to the Southern Region for the first time ( other than on the Waterloo & City line and the experimental PEP unit ) sliding-door stock which might ultimately be suitable for one-person operation . |
| 24 | If I am interrupted , I shall fail to convey some fact which might ultimately be crucial . ’ |
| 25 | But then there is one lounge suit , passed on to me in 1931 or 1932 by Sir Edward Blair — practically brand new at the time and almost a perfect fit — which might well be appropriate for evenings in the lounge or dining room of any guest houses where I might lodge . |
| 26 | Since sociolinguistics is full of incomplete theories and unanswered questions , it is often more important to find ways of thoroughly searching the data for different types of pattern than to generate hypotheses which might well be premature . |
| 27 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 28 | An example is the terrace around Lake Harrison at a little above 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( see Chapter 14 ) , which might easily be confused with the well-known British marine terrace at about the same level but probably much earlier in date . |
| 29 | Sorry to butt in again , but I do n't think that 's quite right , because this Plan Two , five years and sixty thousand miles , refers to manufacturer 's warranty , which might still be valid , and this supplements it . |
| 30 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |