Example sentences of "[that] they might [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conviction carried by how things are in his fiction can not be separated from the sense that they might be otherwise . |
| 2 | The Trees seemed to be thinking Tealtaoich 's words over and Tealtaoich , still standing before them , received the impression that they might be somehow conferring with one another in some silent fashion of their own . |
| 3 | He thought , privately , that they might be very glad of the horses , because they might find that they came out of the Workshops much faster than they went in , but he did not say this . |
| 4 | Even so , people living in the highly technological societies do not feel fully content , and imagine that they might be better off with a return to primitive technical conditions . |
| 5 | We never considered that they might be quite separate . |
| 6 | But they lived in hope that they might be so blessed . |
| 7 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |