Example sentences of "[noun sg] might [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour might be in the extraordinary position of winning a general election with its Leader outside Parliament . |
| 2 | It would have been a distressing upheaval indeed — I think Elizabeth found ‘ Braemar ’ so depressing that she did not enter as deeply as I into Ivy 's sufferings ; she could not help hoping that a change might be for the better . |
| 3 | It was a discernible unity , embedded though that unity might be in the economic order of the rest of the world . |
| 4 | The passage for instance might be in the nature of one of the following : |
| 5 | Mr. Davis felt constrained to accept that such a case might be within the purview of the legislation . |
| 6 | The case established that there can be more than one occupier of the same premises , although the duty required of each might be different : e.g. a seaside promenade might be under the control of a local authority and the water authority as part of the sea defences . |
| 7 | In November church bells were rung to celebrate the victory at El Alamein , and everyone felt that at last the war might be near the end , although Churchill told them they were wrong . |
| 8 | ENGLAND vice-captain Alec Stewart has been re-appointed captain of Surrey for the 1993 cricket season , ending suggestions that his job might be on the line after the TCCB found the county guilty of ball-tampering . |
| 9 | There seemed no point when the whole place might be on the point of closing , and she herself and Steve in prison . |
| 10 | Some media at any moment might be on the way in ; others on the way out . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal , Lord Donaldson MR taking the high ground that the function of the independent judiciary under the rule of law was simply to decide whether there had been compliance with the statute requiring the holding of a ballot , however unpopular the strike might be with the travelling public . |
| 12 | The launch pad might be in the way , pushing on us from that end to stop us doing the natural thing which is to fall vertically through to the centre of the Earth . |
| 13 | and they used to know the , the wrongdoers , and when alleg allegations were made about any violence on the police , they would know the policeman pretty well , and more often than not they could tell whether a policeman might be of the type who might provoke anybody , they knew the policeman very well indeed , and my word if the policeman was assaulted in my early days , he 'd got to have a jolly good excuse not to be sent to prison . |
| 14 | In the Gentile churches spiritual leadership might be in the hands of ‘ presbyters ’ ( Acts 20 : 17 ) under the overall authority of an apostle such as St Paul . |
| 15 | An alternative strategy might be for the archivist to get in early in the life of information systems , probably even at the design stage , to imbed selection criteria of some sort into them . |
| 16 | Today the firm offers connectivity products supporting Santa Cruz Operation Unix , Unix 5.1 , and IBM 's AIX — Craine says Sun Microsystems , Hewlett-Packard and DEC flavours of Unix might be on the agenda sometime in the future , though nothing is imminent . |
| 17 | SIGNS that the economy might be on the upturn come with another major East Anglian employer back in profit . |
| 18 | And then the old man might be in the back yard somewhere and he could here that the bell going . |
| 19 | This choice might be at the level of choosing what to output to the process along a particular channel , or of choosing ( via an ALT with communication guards ) which channel to communicate on . |
| 20 | One answer might be for the EC to agree rules for the recycling of packaging that would reduce such disruption . |
| 21 | The answer might be on the pier or in a boat . |
| 22 | If this is the case , an incentive to improved health might be for the counsellor to talk to them about ways and means of increasing their social contacts and involvement when they get better . |
| 23 | An alternative form might be for the corporation to sell a proportion of its products at strictly cost price to those sections of the community who are under-privileged and in need of these occasional subsidies . |
| 24 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 25 | The peasant might be at the bottom of the pile , but he still had rights to own or work common land and thus the certainty of providing some food for the survival of himself and his family . |