Example sentences of "might [adv] be [vb pp] if " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gun was a revolver , however , and it did fire , killing V. The Court of Appeal held that D might properly be convicted if his belief that there was no danger of the gun firing was formed in a criminally negligent way . |
| 2 | Even if both agreed the issue might not be withdrawn if the tribunal objected . |
| 3 | So she might not be bothered if Louis lost his place to an heir . |
| 4 | But then there are other forms where this description does not suggest itself , or might not be admitted if it did : for example , ballroom dancing , which would be normally set down simply as ‘ a pleasurable social activity ’ ( and as such different from art ? ) . |
| 5 | If a vacant position is not immediately available , reassignment might still be considered if the employer knows of a position which will become vacant within a reasonable time . |
| 6 | The emphasis with the old , as with any other age-group , should be on prevention before the need for cure arises , and some elderly people suffer quite unnecessarily from the ‘ silent ’ types of illness which show no dramatic symptoms in their early stages ( such as anaemia ) , and which might well be diagnosed if they visited their doctor at six-monthly intervals when feeling at all ‘ off colour ’ . |
| 7 | This might well be modified if we made alternative , and possibly more realistic , assumptions . |