Example sentences of "might easily [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A junior Defence Minister attempted to explain that a bomb might easily be planted in a barracks : ‘ Anyone could walk in as long as they were carrying a package which did not look suspicious . ’ |
| 2 | At least one small nineteenth-century factory in Dentorn , Greater Manchester , as an area noted for the manufacture of hats , was built with certain architectural features included so that it might easily be converted into a terrace of houses . |
| 3 | The patient should sit correctly at all times : he should not have to hold his hemiplegic leg up with his unaffected leg , as this is tiring for him , and creates the danger that his outstretched legs might easily be jarred or hit . |
| 4 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 5 | And it might easily be at the expense of tone if it was . |
| 6 | She points out that a 2.5 percentage point saving on the mortgage rate might easily be cancelled out by expensive compulsory insurance and a steep arrangement fee alone . |
| 7 | This person might easily be the perpetrator of the crime that led to that appalling interment . |
| 8 | The shell only needed to hit one of the skaters — though it did indeed need to strike a target and not be wasted , as might easily be the case when fired seemingly without aiming . |
| 9 | Between the wars , in a word , English literature briefly ceased to be British , and there were those who imagined the change might easily be irreversible . |
| 10 | Even with money and will , a uranium-enrichment programme takes time to build , and might easily be detected by others . |
| 11 | The right to present was a doubtful political asset , for although it was a means of obliging some who might be useful upon a future occasion , many more might easily be alienated and mindful of the offence every Sunday . |
| 12 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 13 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 14 | A cynical observer might argue that the assembly of a £5 million bid might easily be described as ‘ something being done ’ , and the failure of the attempt can hardly be viewed as a positive step , even if the debate on the estate 's future is now reopened . |
| 15 | It is again perhaps surprising that needs in Waltham Forest are greater than in Knowsley and striking how much higher the estimated needs are for Hackney than for Knowsley ; part of the reason for the lowish assessment for Knowsley is due to the very low proportion of elderly , although this might easily be offset in principle by the atypically high proportions of children there . |
| 16 | He had no evidence — nothing but an anonymous letter which might easily be the work of some anti-Semite . |
| 17 | The sort of deserted outbuilding that might easily be forgotten , until a fresh supply of fuel was needed . |
| 18 | An example is the terrace around Lake Harrison at a little above 120 m ( 400 ft ) OD ( see Chapter 14 ) , which might easily be confused with the well-known British marine terrace at about the same level but probably much earlier in date . |
| 19 | An improvement in one area might easily be at the expense of another . |
| 20 | Having survived the milling crowds at the station platforms ( in which they might easily be separated from brother or sister ) , children often found themselves bundled onto a train , not knowing their destination , and then enduring a long , slow journey in cramped coaches with no corridors or toilets . |
| 21 | Yet a disgruntled secretary , or one left unemployed by dismissal or the death or recall of his master , might easily be tempted to profit by the information he had acquired in his work . |
| 22 | One child might easily be taken along or left with a babysitter . |
| 23 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 24 | The list might easily be extended . |
| 25 | If I did n't have that advantage , I might easily be extremely suspicious of what was going on and think that much of the sort of thing they 're used to especially at primary school was not maths at all but was playing around with bits of string and round cylinders and erm certainly nothing like I remember doing . |