Example sentences of "that [pron] might [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were you worried that I might be on the verge of getting married , too ? |
| 2 | It seemed possible that she might be into chucking men over her shoulder and spifflicating them . |
| 3 | Her grandfather had suggested , without conviction , that she might be of some use in the farm office . |
| 4 | The weird notion that she might be in danger of actually becoming one day as perfect as she seemed added a ghastly charm to her reflections , as she continued to envisage various methods of killing Jack . |
| 5 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 6 | The first step in the battle to keep control of borrowing is to recognise that you might be in danger . |
| 7 | The first step in the battle to keep control of borrowing is to recognise that you might be in danger . |
| 8 | The chapter on Explaining made trouble for Positivist ideas of explanation but did not suggest that they might be beside the point . |
| 9 | Clearly , outright control does indeed take place , but on a day-to-day level social stability is secured largely through people feeling that they might be under scrutiny . |
| 10 | And he put his sons to read , that they might be of the better understanding , and he made them take arms , and be shown how to demean themselves in battle , and to be huntsmen . |
| 11 | The amount of the Japanese contribution to the planned fund to promote free-market investment was not specified , but the Japanese press suggested that it might be below the US$1,000,000 which the US government was seeking from Japan . |
| 12 | I suggested that it might be worth using a barrier method of contraception , such as the cap or the sheath , for a couple of months before trying for a baby . |
| 13 | ‘ Matilda 's trouble ’ , she said , trying once again , ‘ is that she is so far ahead of everyone else around her that it might be worth thinking about some extra kind of private tuition . |
| 14 | Given the clear-sightedness of his book , and the proximity of the National Theatre to the Palace of Westminster , you can not help feeling that it might be worth giving Mr Eyre a chance as well . |
| 15 | Now might it not be also a very good idea then to report back to another public meeting with the results of those suggestions possibly done in a written form which could be freely available before the meeting so that people can discuss these in a structured way because I think this evening one of the problems about this evening is that points are being missed because issues are being jumped from one to another in no structured way and I think that it might be worth while for another meeting where it is structured but certainly to produce the results of your discussions internally to many of the ideas that you 've heard this evening . |
| 16 | My only word of advice would be that it might be worth waiting a couple of months or so , by which time WordPerfect 6 for DOS should be on the market . |
| 17 | I would have said at forty one you know you er you 're still probably young enough to get a salaried job but we decided that it might be worth er you trying this avenue . |
| 18 | Anyway , look I 'll find out from Bob about this restaurant and see if there 's a possibility that it might be worth booking before I go . |
| 19 | Yet she sensed that it might be like telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they really were . |
| 20 | Yes and one can imagine that it might be like that , but of course the women that we meet at university are those who have become scientists very often . |
| 21 | Lord Donaldson attacked the White Paper 's suggestion that it might be in the public interest to allow other professions , such as accountants , to be given rights of audience in the courts . |
| 22 | doing things like that but I I I I believe quite strongly what Angela 's saying er , if you came to me and presented something ba ba , a total er , conviction that it might be in a sense damaging er the er the the the concept people have of your subject , or might have I would listen very carefully to that , and I also ta , I remember Gordon saying some time ago and whilst Gordon drove me crackers he talked about the government saying you 've got ta do this , you 've go and he said there are things that we must believe in as educationalists ourselves , and professionalists |
| 23 | There below you , so far away that it might be in Derbyshire , was a single toytown rooftop . |
| 24 | ‘ I think , Miss Everett , ’ he cut in before she could tell him that Travis had only called to apologise when he 'd stopped by for his car , ‘ that it might be in your interests not to see him again . ’ |
| 25 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |
| 26 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he murmured , and then suggested that he might be of further help to her . |
| 27 | IN THE 1920s when John was regularly crossing the world to finalize his deals , he always arranged that every trip ended in New York so that he might be with his darling Mary Read . |
| 28 | At the back of her mind was the thought that he might be with someone else . |
| 29 | And Cantona himself suggested in a French newspaper interview that he might be on the look-out for a new challenge after just a few months at any club . |
| 30 | It was one thing to suspect that he might be on a terrorist hit list , and quite another to realize that Asmar 's killers knew where he was . |