Example sentences of "this might be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the south , it was to be a different story and with Vietminh claims recognized neither by the British/Indian forces who arrived first nor by the French who followed not long after , and with Japanese forces for the most part under much tighter control , the reassertion of French sovereignty , at least in so far as this might be done through the possession of Saigon , did not have long to wait . |
| 2 | Perhaps this might be done through correspondence , to answer some of the above questions , or , in the very near future Peter might be able to go further on his explanation of the campaign strategy . |
| 3 | This might be done by a special ( privileged ) " load control store " instruction , which transfers a set of bit patterns in main Storage to an area of control store . |
| 4 | If a candidate is a newcomer , this might be done by holding an informal interview . |
| 5 | The intention was for students to complete a short initial destinations questionnaire as they approached the end of their course , and it was suggested that this might be done in the last formal course session , or when projects were handed in ( if appropriate ) . |
| 6 | This will avoid any delay in making payment to you , otherwise this might be missed until the next reconciliation of the travel accounts . |
| 7 | This might be regarded as prudent common sense . |
| 8 | If there is a small degradation of performance when 15 or more machines are in use but otherwise the network is fine , this might be regarded as a breach of warranty . |
| 9 | This might be decided by higher management . |
| 10 | However , Austria has already submitted its request for full membership of the EC and this might be followed by Norway and Sweden if the attempt to negotiate a wider West European unity breaks down . |
| 11 | Apart from those previously quoted there were other instances mentioned of retirement conditions : county and local WRVS posts of responsibility : 65 ; guiding and scouting in uniform : 65 ; British Red Cross volunteers : 75 ; St John 's Ambulance Brigade : no new volunteers of 65 or more , and volunteers over 65 need an annual medical and fitness certificate up to 68 , although this might be extended to 70 ; lay magistrates on the Juvenile panel : 65 , others 70 ; Industrial Tribunals : chairmen 72 , members 68. 68 ? |
| 12 | From 1 April they will be able to set up contracts for community health services such as district nursing and chiropody , and possibly this might be extended to social aspects of community care . |
| 13 | Normally our tours were confined to three months but occasionally , according to the availability of experienced officers , this might be extended to longer periods . |
| 14 | This might be justified as a means of signalling the connection between drunken driving and fatal accidents . |
| 15 | This might be treated as evidence that Gibbon uses an abnormally large number of abstract nouns , but of course it can not , for we might then discover that a preponderance of abstract nouns is quite normal in the prose of Gibbon 's contemporaries , and that Gibbon 's language in this respect is not exceptional . |
| 16 | In response to the SNH access paper , he adds : ‘ While this might be opposed by some landowners and managers , it nevertheless offers an opportunity , as yet untried , for SNH and government to work out an acceptable scheme for appropriate legislation and test it publicly . ’ |
| 17 | This might be explained by the fact that the former category are not the direct employees of the establishment and that their terms and conditions of employment are less subject to regulation by unions . |
| 18 | This might be explained by WIRS s failure to pick up data on casual workers , the form of temporary worker employed in low skill service occupations . |
| 19 | This might be explained by sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies causing uplift without penetrative magmatism developing to a point where volcanic activity occurs at the surface . |
| 20 | This might be according to whether the client is new to the bureau or not , whether the enquiry is new or a continuing problem , or according to a client 's age , sex , origin , economic activity or area of residence . |
| 21 | This might be integrated with lower level processing , or after all lower level processing has been performed on the entire utterance . |
| 22 | I saw only a little of the country areas outside WA — I hope this might be rectified in the future . |
| 23 | This might be overcome by using a matching task of net to drawing of shape and rewording the criterion to " can match net with drawing or actual object . |
| 24 | Although this might be reinforced by the suggestion , earlier in this chapter , that vision and the ideals fostered by a head can shape the total approach to school management , it is the contingency model and its capacity to take account of turbulence which seem to fit the description of several management approaches in this final decade of the century . |
| 25 | An example of how this might be applied to an inventory record would be to control the format of named collections , e.g. ‘ Sloane Bequest , Miscellanea ’ . |
| 26 | Another way of looking at this might be to say in a sense there are there are two bits , one is identifying where we are now and identifying in relation to both |
| 27 | This might be based on a psychiatric clinic or a voluntary agency such as the Samaritans . |
| 28 | The argument for this might be based on the claim that when we speak to someone we are using a ‘ code ’ , and the most efficient codes do not use unnecessary symbols . |
| 29 | [ … ] This might be seen as an expression of concern by university mathematicians about the subject socialization of their potential students . |
| 30 | Devismes 's letter of 22 June 1800 ( see above and n.20 ) included the sentence : ‘ He is [ to the Opéra ] what the heart is at the centre of the human body ’ This might be seen as hyperbole , taken in isolation , but it is wholly supported by a remarkable testimony written by the composer Jean-François Le Sueur ( 1760-1837 ) . |