Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] might [be] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I might be there or I might be with Roy , I do n't know .
2 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day .
3 Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July .
4 Or it might be by indirection , as in 131 with its apologia : ‘ In nothing art thou black save in thy deeds . ’
5 Were you worried that I might be on the verge of getting married , too ?
6 It seemed possible that she might be into chucking men over her shoulder and spifflicating them .
7 Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office .
8 The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack .
9 Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance .
10 The first step in the battle to keep control of borrowing is to recognise that you might be in danger .
11 The first step in the battle to keep control of borrowing is to recognise that you might be in danger .
12 Then you 're either fortunate or perhaps less aware than you might be about what is going on .
13 If it is the latter kind , then you can be rather more technical and detailed than you might be for the general readership .
14 Although they might be in major shops soon , they 're presently only available from
15 The chapter on Explaining made trouble for Positivist ideas of explanation but did not suggest that they might be beside the point .
16 Clearly , outright control does indeed take place , but on a day-to-day level social stability is secured largely through people feeling that they might be under scrutiny .
17 And he put his sons to read , that they might be of the better understanding , and he made them take arms , and be shown how to demean themselves in battle , and to be huntsmen .
18 Thursday 's performance at Darlington Arts Centre is sold out , although it might be worth checking with the box office ( ) for returns .
19 The amount of the Japanese contribution to the planned fund to promote free-market investment was not specified , but the Japanese press suggested that it might be below the US$1,000,000 which the US government was seeking from Japan .
20 I suggested that it might be worth using a barrier method of contraception , such as the cap or the sheath , for a couple of months before trying for a baby .
21 ‘ Matilda 's trouble ’ , she said , trying once again , ‘ is that she is so far ahead of everyone else around her that it might be worth thinking about some extra kind of private tuition .
22 Given the clear-sightedness of his book , and the proximity of the National Theatre to the Palace of Westminster , you can not help feeling that it might be worth giving Mr Eyre a chance as well .
23 Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening .
24 My only word of advice would be that it might be worth waiting a couple of months or so , by which time WordPerfect 6 for DOS should be on the market .
25 I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue .
26 Anyway , look I 'll find out from Bob about this restaurant and see if there 's a possibility that it might be worth booking before I go .
27 Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were .
28 Yes and one can imagine that it might be like that , but of course the women that we meet at university are those who have become scientists very often .
29 Lord Donaldson attacked the White Paper 's suggestion that it might be in the public interest to allow other professions , such as accountants , to be given rights of audience in the courts .
30 doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists
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