Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 2 | In other words , it might be argued that wealth , whether inherited or earned , is not sufficient to give real power , and neither are the traditional status groups such as the clergy , the military and intellectuals able to command as before . |
| 3 | when I first came when I first came , that was the one thing that I was like that was the fact that that I might be pushed that way whereas I only |
| 4 | It might be imagined that Christianity would first provide for rulers those ritualistic and magical elements congruent with the expectations of converted pagans , and thereafter , with growing political and religious maturity , the moral dimension . |
| 5 | Thus , payment for work carried out now might be made several months later and it is convenient for the debt to be expressed and for the payment to be made in money terms rather than in terms of some commodity . |
| 6 | It might be considered that performance at many factory jobs would be easier to assess since a product is involved . |
| 7 | There are no servants now , no seasons in London or Monte , and our lovely , stubborn , precious little island might be invaded any day . |
| 8 | Pavlov ( 1927 ) expressed the view that the OR evoked by a novel stimulus constituted an ‘ obstacle ’ to conditioning ; and indeed , if conditioning is seen as a process in which the OR comes to be replaced by the CR , it might be expected that pre-exposure to the CS would facilitate this process . |
| 9 | As might be expected any questions involving decimals were rather demanding , but it is noticeable that where the answer included a half success rates were higher than for 0.1 or unc and other decimals . |
| 10 | The market might be held several days a week , and if , like the great Cotswold wood marts at Cirencester , Tetbury and so forth , it was noted for some speciality , business might be attracted from well outside the five-mile radius considered reasonable for day-to-day requirements in the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | Finally , a ‘ psychiatric post-mortem ’ might be held some weeks later when staff feel less distressed . |
| 12 | Slim Gaillard 's Civilisation begins on 22 October on BBC 2 GIVEN the renewed popular interest in bebop , it might be supposed that drummer Max Roach , who came to prominence playing it , would take a pragmatic view of two movies which helped that resurgence : the Charlie Parker film Bird and Round Midnight , loosely based on the life of the pianist Bud Powell . |
| 13 | With the growth in pre-marital sexual experience which has taken place , it might be supposed that selection of a long-term partner on these lines would be easier ; but human beings still have a tendency to believe that everything will be all right in the end and a surprising number have said to me , " things did n't go too well before we married but I thought they 'd work out . " |
| 14 | It might be anticipated that tumour cells possessing a mutant p53 and a mutant K-ras allele would have a growth advantage and be selected for during in vivo tumorigenesis . |