Example sentences of "there might be a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | because there might be a wee rough |
| 2 | Perhaps there might be a small bonus in the shape of occasional military news . |
| 3 | Access is free although there might be a small car parking charge . |
| 4 | Erm I think there might be a small group who would be prepared to fight . |
| 5 | When it appears that there might be a major outbreak in erm in in in in south eastern Europe . |
| 6 | The Direct Tableware Company sales director Roger Young agrees that it will be next spring before any real growth in catering occurs , but he thinks there might be a slight upturn next month in the top-up business : ‘ It 's heading for the busy time and you ca n't serve customers without knives and forks . ’ |
| 7 | In another , there might be a separate below-the-line department . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , my friend was voicing fears and doubts : ‘ There might be a great hole in the road ! ’ |
| 9 | In detail there might be a great deal of discussion about the institutional arrangements necessary to responsible government , but in general some are obvious . |
| 10 | The Office of Fair Trading agreed that ‘ from a competition viewpoint there might be a great deal of benefit in combining the two funds and placing them on insurance principles , setting premiums on the basis of risk ’ . |
| 11 | With the introduction of financial management and , hopefully , farm succession courses , there might be a good opportunity to involve these older farmers in the future . |
| 12 | If it occurred to Ruth — and how could it possibly occur to Mrs Peterson — that there might be a good reason for this , she dismissed it from her mind at once . |
| 13 | There might be a new big fish , a defector , who 's been landed by us . |
| 14 | Did my right hon. Friend say that there might be a new treaty of extradition with India ? |
| 15 | On 6 March 1963 the suggestion was first made that there might be a printed Order of Service each Sunday . |
| 16 | The Severnside cheese cattle were first documented in the thirteenth century and there is a theory that there might be a Norman ancestry , though the evidence is circumstantial : a certain Norman baron owned large parts of the two counties in about 1100 and is known to have imported cattle from Normandy . |
| 17 | ‘ I should rather say it was something he inadvertently let fall that led me to believe there might be a legal case to answer . ’ |
| 18 | There might be a possible history in which the Labour party won the last election in Britain , though maybe the probability is low . |
| 19 | He told her to look in the table drawer in the living-room — he thought there might be a spare drying-up cloth in it . |
| 20 | Gino 's chipper in Duke Street , near where she normally boarded her tram after work , charged one penny for a bag of crispy batter , and if you were lucky , there might be a nice piece of fish , or a stray lump of white pudding hiding among the golden , greasy flakes . |
| 21 | There might be a real risk of embarrassment to his full-time employers if he were asked to act for a client in his spare time who was on the other side of a case in which his main employers were engaged . |
| 22 | United have not won the title in 25 years since , and though there might be a spiritual and timely link between a player of Cantona 's style and those noble Reds of old , it is Eusebio , the Black Panther , who takes centre stage tonight . |
| 23 | There might be a faint possibility that it is being bound , although this applies more to periodicals than to textbooks . |
| 24 | The ex-soldier 's comment suggests , contrary to the interpretation of the reporter , that there might be a perceived connection between tradition and the absence of discrimination . |
| 25 | There might be a stewed bit in |
| 26 | ‘ I just thought there might be a fifty-quid banknote in that envelope , but there was only a letter , which I could n't read , anyway , it was in a foreign language . |
| 27 | It was a belief in a designing and orderly God which made it possible for him to think there might be a consistent cause for his ‘ headaches ’ . |
| 28 | The key issue here was D's obvious refusal of consent to any touching ; in other cases there might be a general issue of whether the touching goes ‘ beyond generally acceptable standards of conduct ’ . |
| 29 | There might be a shamefaced nod . |
| 30 | ‘ Saturday night , if we 're lucky , there might be a rare chance to go out . |