Example sentences of "[pers pn] might be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I might be replaced by an old-fashioned advocate of Latinate grammar , and that would be a disaster for the schools . |
| 2 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 3 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 4 | The concept of an objective order demands the possibility of certain criteria of objectivity , such that I might be corrected by others on a given occasion , should I for any reason fall foul of such criteria . |
| 5 | She felt as if she might be struck by lightning if she stayed where she was . |
| 6 | She might be reassured by a test yet is obviously in the high-risk category . |
| 7 | I believe she was afraid she might be rejected by Martin . |
| 8 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 9 | I. If you wanted to start a new firm for any product you might be attracted by the empty factories and the source of unemployed workers . |
| 10 | You only use the path along the cliff in bad weather or if there is a possibility you might be trapped by the tide . |
| 11 | If your company attempts to do so , tribunals will again construe any ambiguity in your favour , if there is a risk that you might be disadvantaged by what your employer purports to have done . |
| 12 | ‘ You sound as if you might be angered by my suggestion , ’ said the counsellor . |
| 13 | Because however much we might be reassured by Parliament that Charles 's constitutional position will be unaffected by his separation , most of us believe that the Prince will finally have to give up his right to the throne — just as his Great Uncle did in the Abdication of 1936 . |
| 14 | He/she might be constrained by loyalty to ministers ; as a result , reputation and career might be at risk . |
| 15 | " If there is anything in my suspicions , a letter addressed to him might be opened by someone privy to the forgery or fraud . |
| 16 | Debts due to her might be collected by the husband ; and if that was done , of course the money was his . |
| 17 | In this book we will be looking at the level at which facilities are provided in electronic hardware , as they might be seen by a system programmer about to implement the most basic software on the computer . |
| 18 | No other ship could stand up to their guns , but some sailors thought they might be defeated by the new weapon of the torpedo . |
| 19 | Although they might be observed by gamma-ray detectors on satellites or balloons , it would be difficult to fly a detector large enough to have a reasonable chance of intercepting a significant number of gamma-ray photons from one explosion . |
| 20 | According to King Hassan II and his government , the prison does not exist — or , even if it does , the people all love the King so much it would be unsafe to release the prisoners — they might be killed by the populace . |
| 21 | If positions and viewpoints are too easily set aside they might be regarded by other people as not having , even in the first place , amounted to much . |
| 22 | Gesticulating wildly in a crowded space , so that others are frightened that they might be struck by the defendant , is not punishable unless it can be shown that the defendant was at least aware that his conduct might be having such an effect . |
| 23 | If it were merely a handful of Irish psychopaths against us , they might be foiled by a piece of pasteboard with a photograph and some numbers stamped on it . |
| 24 | Sainte-Engrâce was until very recently a remote settlement , because the road into the valley was also the only road out ; as a consequence it had a fine tradition for smuggling , since the last thing Basque smugglers ever wanted was good roads along which they might be pursued by excise men far less agile or locally knowledgeable than themselves . |
| 25 | They might be sorted by their identity into lorry , cars and bicycle , according to a particular attribute ( colour , shape , weight , size , texture , etc. ) , by some group identity ( in this case modes of transport ) , or some more abstract quality . |
| 26 | Let us first , however , review some of the main themes of established class-based relations in urban and regional studies and establish how they might be improved by our new perspective . |
| 27 | Who knows , ’ he pretended that the thought had only just occurred to him , ‘ they might be attacked by bandits . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It may be said that the duty is difficult to define , because when the act of negligence in manufacture occurs there was no specific person towards whom the duty could be said to exist : the thing might never be used : it might be destroyed by accident , or it might be scrapped , or in many ways fail to come into use in the normal way : in other words the duty can not at the time of manufacture be other than potential or contingent , and only can become vested by the fact of actual use by a particular person . |
| 29 | It might be argued by some that his approach was too prosaic , but it would perhaps be more true to say that he cloaked classical ideals in the trappings of his own environment . |
| 30 | Er there 's a book , which I do n't think is on your list but it might be called By Thorn and Henley er which might be worth looking at . |