Example sentences of "might [be] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm what would present problems in real life I think would be developments of a larger kind than that in which a new settlement er might be one strategic site if we had such a policy might be another . |
| 2 | For Batty , this MIGHT be one such occasion . |
| 3 | that might be one good reason for using the er the soaks . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the degree to which a writer complicates his style by applying syntactic transformations might be one linguistic measure of markedness ; we shall consider another such measure in the next section . |
| 5 | ‘ The defence does not arise on a plea of autrefois convict , but on the well-established rule at common law , that where a person has been convicted and punished for an offence by a court of competent jurisdiction , transit in rem judicatam , that is , the conviction shall be a bar to all further proceedings for the same offence , and he shall not be punished again for the same matter ; otherwise there might be two different punishments for the same offence . |
| 6 | What to linguists using purely linguistic criteria might be two different languages , or two closely related dialects , may to their speakers be two dialects of the same language , or two different languages respectively . |
| 7 | sometimes there might be two different names on this , on those , on those photocopies so it might not be the same one at the top and bottom |
| 8 | Some of us might be young unmarried girls , others aged ladies of 40 or 50 . |
| 9 | Follow your own energy , and do whatever attracts you — bearing in mind that an exercise might be helpful next week , or in six months ' time , rather than now . |
| 10 | The statements can be from other children in the class or they might be standard scientific explanations . |
| 11 | On the other hand , as mentioned in Chapter 6 , there might be primordial black holes with a very much smaller mass that were made by the collapse of irregularities in the very early stages of the universe . |
| 12 | This distinction enables Breen to say that ‘ inauthentic language-using behaviour might be authentic language- learning behaviour ’ . |
| 13 | Well she might be that little bit further on let's face it I mean |
| 14 | Second , analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them . |
| 15 | This generation , not having directly experienced large populations of immigrant , foreign-looking Jews , will abandon the preoccupations of former leaders and will encourage fascist parties to concentrate on prejudices for which there might be direct electoral advantage . |
| 16 | He studied her warrant card intently , as though there might be some real doubt about her identity , and then returned it to her without even the glimmer of a smile . |
| 17 | And then you thought well no , no it would n't because , and why would n't it , er but on the other hand there might be some good things about it and what were they , |
| 18 | done so , I mean and as part of that you could ask questions about whether , you know there might be some longer-term placement you could do or something . |
| 19 | Fears were expressed by some of those present that the Government emphasis — and funding — would be concentrated on practical research for which there might be some profitable return rather than on basic research which carried less obvious spin-offs . |
| 20 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 21 | However , we can not exclude the possibility that there might be some other form of matter , distributed almost uniformly throughout the universe , that we have not yet detected and that might still raise the average density of the universe up to the critical value needed to halt the expansion . |
| 22 | ‘ There might be some spare cash floating around since it 's getting near the end of the year . ’ |
| 23 | There might be some useful finds . ’ |
| 24 | Although they are naked in their latest pictures , the images are as oblique as ever , and George merely shrugs , ‘ If everybody else has to be , why not us ? ’ , when it 's suggested there might be some special significance involved . |
| 25 | He said there might be some more money coming . |
| 26 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 27 | Yes , but there might be some important differences that we would want to bring up , which we , we perhaps could take a bit further . |
| 28 | Mr Airlie conceded that there might be some residual animosity towards the electricians but he did not envisage any problems in taking the union into the TUC . |
| 29 | It might be some devious take-over bid especially if the board 's strong-arm boy Karel was going along with Berndt Tjerssen . |
| 30 | She wished she had a stronger conviction that the Infant of Prague might be any earthly use in keeping her son safe on this terrible machine . |