Example sentences of "[adj] might [be] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While climatic geomorphology proper might be seen as a valuable adjunct to applied pedology and applied ecology in understanding the operation of landscape systems at the present , climato-genetic geomorphology ( Büdel , 1963 ) which relies on the principle of actualism in historical studies is less readily tenable … |
| 2 | This might be regarded as prudent common sense . |
| 3 | If there is a small degradation of performance when 15 or more machines are in use but otherwise the network is fine , this might be regarded as a breach of warranty . |
| 4 | This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents . |
| 5 | This might be treated as evidence that Gibbon uses an abnormally large number of abstract nouns , but of course it can not , for we might then discover that a preponderance of abstract nouns is quite normal in the prose of Gibbon 's contemporaries , and that Gibbon 's language in this respect is not exceptional . |
| 6 | [ … ] This might be seen as an expression of concern by university mathematicians about the subject socialization of their potential students . |
| 7 | Devismes 's letter of 22 June 1800 ( see above and n.20 ) included the sentence : ‘ He is [ to the Opéra ] what the heart is at the centre of the human body ’ This might be seen as hyperbole , taken in isolation , but it is wholly supported by a remarkable testimony written by the composer Jean-François Le Sueur ( 1760-1837 ) . |
| 8 | This might be characterized as ‘ what it is like to see ’ or ‘ what things look like ’ or , most especially , ‘ what colours are like ’ ( that is , what they look like — there is no difference in their case ) . |
| 9 | For Bateson the operative principle of democracy is " a balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities , In fact , this might be taken as a most apposite description of his own attempt at building a new consensus for English . |
| 10 | This might be taken as an informative summary . |
| 11 | ( f ) to demerge a target company ( this might be used as a defence tactic ( see para 18.5.14 below ) ) . |
| 12 | This might be interpreted as an indication that it is not his purpose or intention to present a systematic , coherent and consistent Advaitin account of the concept of Truth or God after the fashion of Śankara , the principal exponent of non-dualism , and that what could be said concerning the metaphysical basis of his thought is that although it purports to be Advaitin it does not preclude the possibility of Dvaita , or Dualist , and Viśi ādvaita , or qualified non-Dualist interpretations of the nature of reality . |
| 13 | In the context of the earlier discussion on meaning , this might be interpreted as those relationships which help to establish and sustain a person 's self-esteem in areas to which he is highly committed . |
| 14 | There was a project to get artists to work on panels for a long wall , concrete posts and lintels with a brick infill , that might be seen as a possible module for paintings or some other art form . |
| 15 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |
| 16 | Looking at stress generally , and not necessarily as it affects nurses , the following might be considered as potential trouble spots : |
| 17 | The following might be suggested as possibilities for the purpose of illustration . |
| 18 | The same technique can be used to identify those descriptions which were never matched by comments in the potential risks condition , these might be regarded as peripheral details in the stimuli in the sense that they do not appear to be related to risks . |
| 19 | These might be described as : |
| 20 | It is perhaps arguable , though , that we should recognize structures based on assignment of equation where the two intensional elements are properties ; thus a sentence such as small is beautiful might be represented as : ( 36 ) small is beautiful On the other hand , it may be that the human mind only represents such an equational assignment to itself by first making an entity-concept out of the ideas on each side . |
| 21 | That fact standing alone might be regarded as a not unjust consequence of the Home Secretary 's policy . |
| 22 | In 1966 , the Court ruled that a publication which is not obscene might be regarded as such if distributed in a lascivious manner , and in 1968 , that the law 's jurisdiction did not ‘ reach into the privacy of one 's home … [ whereas ] public distribution … might intrude upon the sensibilities or privacy of the general public … ’ . |