Example sentences of "might [adv] be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their reputation now rests in the professional audio industry , and the ordinary muso might only be aware of Dynacord as providers of amps to the accordion players of Bavaria . |
| 2 | ‘ Indeed , the Queen might not be guilty of deception . |
| 3 | And when you have that level of confidence it 's easy to do things because , you know , you just do it ; it never occurs to you that you might not be capable of pulling something off . |
| 4 | This is not to say that nationalized industries might not be capable of earning enough revenues to pay that debt ( far from it ) but that the Government will not need a published balance sheet to assess financial viability . |
| 5 | It is a conception that might not be true of it , or all of it , and which might cease to be true of it or of all of it . |
| 6 | Sir Philip Egerton having been kind enough to give me a Frank I embrace the opportunity to send you some account of Mr. Gould and his movements , presuming that as you expressed a wish to hear of him from time to time , a letter on this subject might not be devoid of interest . |
| 7 | It could equally well be seen as an attempt to draw attention to problems in the world that her audience might not be aware of . |
| 8 | However , the court might not be satisfied of that ‘ beyond reasonable doubt ’ , and might find that D only intended to cause grievous bodily harm . |
| 9 | The Arsenal pair might just be capable of staging the best road show since Hope and Crosby — but Ipswich had very few laughs at Highbury . |
| 10 | And we might still be doubtful of the existence of causally effective mathematical facts , without wishing to say that no mathematical beliefs can therefore be justified . |
| 11 | Indeed , in so far as the left was urban , secularist or even militantly anti-clerical ( see chapter 14 below ) and both contemptuous of rural ‘ backwardness ’ and unappreciative of country problems , the peasantry might still be full of suspicion and hostility towards it . |
| 12 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 13 | He might well be guilty of swindling people , but not of shooting them . |
| 14 | This organized disposal of the dead in large communal cemeteries , set aside for the purpose , is a useful indicator of more complex communities , so that the appearance of isolated burial plots can be instructive ; at Ilchester , the late burials within the extra-mural plots might well be indicative of the later Roman decline in standards within a contracting settlement . |
| 15 | She might well be capable of attacking someone who threatened Lesley-Jane or the girl 's career , which she lived with such fierce vicariousness , but there was no sign that Michael Banks did represent any such threat . |
| 16 | And a man on an emotional roller-coaster might well be wary of making his life even more complicated . |
| 17 | I think Lane was attempting to intimidate me in relation to his further questions , answers to which might otherwise be critical of the police , and in this he partly succeeded . |
| 18 | The logical result of this attitude was , of course , the takeover of the most prominent media , which would involve placing them under more direct control , a corollary of this action was the suppression or limitation of any privately owned media that might either be critical of TANU and the Tanzanian Government or campaign for alternatives . |
| 19 | They might therefore be fearful of losing out if they accept a tender offer prematurely . |