Example sentences of "[noun sg] might be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a foreword to the 1979 Conservative election manifesto , Mrs Thatcher suggested that the election might be the last chance voters had to reverse the extension of state power at the expense of the individual . |
| 2 | There has been speculation that the move might be the first step towards privatisation of the business formed as a state-owned entity in 1989 when the Government decided to withdraw the nuclear power sector from plans to privatise the rest of the electricity industry . |
| 3 | The Gulf war and its attendant debate over the dispatching of Japanese troops overseas also affected Japan 's relationship with its Asian neighbours , many of whom expressed fears that such a development might be the first step towards a resurgence of military power commensurate with the country 's huge economic strength . |
| 4 | With reference to the thought that this button might be the last relic surviving from this unit , I have in my collection the silver shoulder belt plate of Joseph Bennett ( of Chaxhill House , Westbury-on-Severn ) hall marked 1803/04 and probably handed on from his brother Daniel . |
| 5 | Edward VII thought it possible that his son might be the last British king , and during the reign of George V , Harold Nicolson reckoned that five emperors , eight kings and eighteen minor dynasties had come to an end . |