Example sentences of "might be [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 2 | If , on the other hand , someone had dragged his unconscious body after slugging him with Dora 's missing golf-club , there might be other shreds of cloth lying about . |
| 3 | Of course , there might be other forms of intelligent life , not dreamed of even by writers of science fiction , that did not require the light of a star like the sun or the heavier chemical elements that are made in stars and are flung back into space when the stars explode . |
| 4 | The idea of two particles so near in mass was troubling for some people and made them wonder if some misinterpretations had occurred ; in particular Patrick Blackett , another Nobel Laureate , raised a question as to whether there might be other explanations of the pion decay . |
| 5 | Some of these desires might be adolescent flights of fancy , which you never honestly wanted to happen . |
| 6 | The territory was not densely settled and while emigrants to America might be loyal subjects of Charles II , in Virginia , or might be deeply distrustful of him on religious grounds , as in New England , they were not certainly united with one another . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the approach described does indicate an area in which there might be considerable expansion of the accounting function . |
| 8 | Furthermore , it is not possible to talk about the " type " of thing substance is without actually talking about the substance itself , for substance is by definition one , and any suggestion that there might be different specimens of it is incoherent . |
| 9 | One possible solution might be different grades of membership , but an examination in depth was needed . |
| 10 | In such cases there might be different sorts of motivation , such as the prestige which accrued from the production of a large coinage in the state 's name or the profit which came to the state from the minting fee . |
| 11 | Thus yellow and roundness might be intrinsic properties of a yellow ball as being among the properties in virtue of the possession of which another ball might be exactly like it . |