Example sentences of "[noun pl] might [be] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tenant farmers with a year 's rent arrears might be evicted on a fortnight 's notice . |
| 2 | The story as a whole only begins to make sense when the reader appreciates that , in appropriate circumstances , all these roles might be filled by one and the same individual . |
| 3 | How their roles might be enhanced in recognition of the behavioural literature will be examined to some extent in chapter 9 . |
| 4 | In May , the McNair Committee had reported on the future of teacher training ; late in July the Fleming Report suggested some of the ways in which the Public Schools might be integrated into the national educational system . |
| 5 | The Report suggested two ways in which direct-grant and other schools might be drawn into patterns of local provision : either as full-grant schools ( a new category ) , or as voluntary-aided or controlled schools along the well-established lines defined in 1944 . |
| 6 | Pictures might be found in books which ‘ look like ’ the family pet , and these could be discussed . |
| 7 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 8 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 9 | Thus the control and data manipulation units might be timed by one clock , the store by a second , and each transput device by its own clock . |
| 10 | A further judgment which affected press practices was made on June 24 when the court ruled 5:4 that news organizations might be sued for breaking promises of confidentiality to their sources . |
| 11 | Supposing after enquiry the deaf were able to make out their case , would any Government , be it Conservative or Liberal or Labour , be justified in resisting any scheme of amelioration because similar demands might be made by other classes ? |
| 12 | Territorial demands might be made by Arab delegates , but " as an examination of the dispute 's history makes clear , its nature is not territorial . |
| 13 | On this theory some potencies would contain more shape-specific molecules than others and some would contain longer chain polymers than others , so some potencies might be expected to be more efficacious than others in treatment . |
| 14 | dissertation the young Prince Louis de Broglie proposed a way in which waves might be associated with objects like electrons which had hitherto been thought of in purely particle terms ( see Appendix , A2 ) . |
| 15 | The co-operation of these voices might be seen as the very essence of critical commentary : to interpret the text while refering to it with varying levels of precision . |
| 16 | Royalists might be asked to image what their reaction would be if the monarch started to revive ancient powers to dismiss governments or began refusing to give their assent to acts of parliament . |
| 17 | Let us look at how the full set of English vowels might be analysed in terms of a small number of distinctive features . |
| 18 | He also pointed out that the apparently prodigious appetites of the clergy might be explained by the droves of tourists and worshippers who ate at Vatican restaurants . |
| 19 | His translators over the past two centuries might be divided into literalists , freewheeling creativists , and those — the greater number — who have attempted something in the middle way between Newmark 's " semantic " and " communicative " ; those , indeed , who have attempted to " English " him . |
| 20 | Positional signals might be thought of as instructive since they tell the cell its position in the system . |
| 21 | For example , in the laboratory , experimental subjects might be asked to role-play in hypothetical future situations , in order to discover under what types of circumstance they might Take the Role of the Other . |
| 22 | Or royalist subjects might be faced by a fellow subject who argues that the monarch should revive these former powers . |
| 23 | Although yields might be increased in certain high-latitude regions , notably Canada and Russia , this would be more than offset by decreases in the tropics . |
| 24 | We were interested to examine the adhesive properties of E coli which we had isolated in studies of the flora closely associated with the rectal mucosa , a flora in which the expression of adhesins and other adhesion associated characteristics might be expected to be favoured or prerequisite , and to compare our results with those reported for faecal isolates . |
| 25 | Flaubert 's planned invisibility in a century of babbling personalities ant shrieking styles might be characterised in one of two ways : as classical , or modern . |
| 26 | On the one hand , the antisemitism of ‘ anti-immigrant ’ fascist parties might be seen as an anachronism , arising from the fact that for a number of years such parties were led by a generation who were raised in conditions of widespread antisemitism . |
| 27 | The parties might be represented by proctors . |
| 28 | To both men it seemed that a way out for all parties might be found in an international conference , such as that which had settled the Luxembourg question in 1867 . |
| 29 | In the same way a temple which was situated at the top of a flight of steps might be shown on top of steps , though the number of steps on the coin would normally be fewer than in reality . |
| 30 | The rather woolly nature of these claims aside , readers might be forgiven for wondering why , if the Cuk converter offers so many desirable features , it is not more commonly used . |