Example sentences of "might [adv] be [vb pp] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership . |
| 2 | It might perhaps be assumed that families sending girls to be compositors would be those where there was some interest in books , but the evidence is very fragmentary . |
| 3 | It might perhaps be thought that this would always be classified as a matter for unanimity . |
| 4 | These ghastly memorials were frequently laid down during the lifetime of the persons they were intended to commemorate , in order that they might constantly be reminded that they were but mortal . |
| 5 | Admitting this , it might nevertheless be claimed that a person 's consenting entails , as a matter of the meaning of ‘ consent ’ , not only that he acted in the way I have described , but that his action has the purported normative consequences . |
| 6 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 7 | Putting on a Show The Windows aficionado will be well pleased with the look and feel of Presentations 2.0 — it maintains that 3D kind of look that Windows 3.1 is so good at , to the point where you might just be persuaded that you 're actually running a Windows application full screen . |
| 8 | It might still be thought that an entire disc of music for solo viol could be a daunting prospect . |
| 9 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 10 | It might reasonably be expected that a child placed in a special class would make more progress after the placement than during a comparable time period before the placement . |
| 11 | If the higher rate of detection of M paratuberculosis found in the Crohn 's disease cultures were simply a consequence of the disease process itself , then it might reasonably be expected that the closely related M avium subsp silvaticum would be similarly distributed . |
| 12 | It might also be said that the Portland Limestone of southern England is the Tithonian limestone in yet another form , with what is mainly a molluscan fauna of limited diversity . |
| 13 | It might also be maintained that the elasticity of the concept of Satya in Indian philosophical thought may well account for these apparent contradictions . |
| 14 | It might also be hoped that a fairer distribution of resources would result but that might depend not only on the restraints of the individual care manager 's budget but also on the priority given to dementia . |
| 15 | Yet it might also be argued that the major political parties ensured that , despite the attention which Mosley attracted , the fascists were going to be marginalized . |
| 16 | It might also be argued that the mandatory life sentence makes a substantial contribution to public safety . |
| 17 | It might also be argued that the treatment of language in terms of sentences has been quite successful in revealing how language works , that within the sentence we can establish rules and constraints concerning what is and is not allowed , whereas beyond the sentence , such rules seem either to disintegrate or turn into rules of a different kind — social rules or psychological rules , which are not within the area of linguistic study at all . |
| 18 | It might also be argued that despite recent legislation ( some would say because of it ) parent-teacher relations are still too often fraught with fear , suspicion and misunderstanding ; that there is still too much teacher stereotyping of ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ homes and parents ; and that many parents still lack power in relation to their parental rights and responsibilities . |
| 19 | From Wright Mills 's position that one does not need to demonstrate directly the existence of the shared ideology and shared objectives , it might also be argued that the corollary is also unnecessary ; that is , that the members ' awareness of the shared ideology is not a necessary condition either . |
| 20 | It might also be argued that this provision of free sterile needles might even encourage some drug users to experiment or continue with intravenous use . |
| 21 | It might also be argued that it functions as metonymy , in which some element closely associated with the prime function of the whole comes to stand in for it . |
| 22 | It might also be argued that the RPF provided de Gaulle with a means of influencing popular and political opinion on critical issues , particularly those relating to foreign affairs . |
| 23 | It might also be argued that as an activity and form of visual culture , it is class , gender and culturally specific . |
| 24 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 25 | It might also be suggested that for officers of an LEA to concentrate time and resources on prescribing how the physical arrangements of classrooms should be attended to represents a rather demeaning view of teachers and heads , whose proper concern such matters undoubtedly are . |
| 26 | It might also be thought that seasonal workers would be distinguished from their regular counterparts by special contracts of employment . |
| 27 | In discussing the effect produced when event X precedes the CS-US pairing of a conditioning trial , Revusky lays emphasis on the interference that results from the formation of an X-US association ; but it might also be allowed that the formation on an X-CS association plays a role . |
| 28 | It might automatically be assumed that because that was the name of our branch , we should be in the public service section and that it why we 've changed the name of the branch to Bristol and District Staff because we are an odds and sods branch . |
| 29 | It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context . |
| 30 | In the example here it might plausibly be supposed that the age of the pupils might well influence attainment or otherwise modify the effect of the causal factor . |