Example sentences of "these [noun pl] might [adv] [be] " in BNC.

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1 These influences might partly be attributed to the official who authenticated the Cologne decree , Asclipiodus .
2 Priority was in this way accorded to the least prosperous regions and countries of the Community , partly arising from an expectation that these areas might otherwise be expected to benefit least from the SEM .
3 The idea that these targets might simply be achieved by a cosy consortium between the health and education services begins to crack with research reported by Nutbeam et al in this issue ( p 102 ) .
4 These attacks might only be cattle raids — that 's bad enough-but sometimes they might be more hostile .
5 The Select Committee suggested that these costs might actually be too high and it is true that if our ‘ Safestore ’ strategy is adopted we will be able to reduce the liability by at least a further £500 million .
6 Although some of these defects might eventually be treatable by gene therapy , this would never be possible for all of them , and prevention is in any case better than cure .
7 These berths might also be improved for the build-up phase , by bulldozing earth ramparts to speed the offloading of bulk stores carried by many LSTs .
8 These new converts to the cause of family allowances were different from the feminist and ‘ living wage ’ advocates of the previous decade because their primary concern was not to improve the status of women or redistribute income from rich to poor , though these aims might incidentally be attained .
9 Weiner and Labov ( 1983 ) on the other hand attempt in a complicated chain of reasoning to argue that although there are indeed different stylistic and discourse meanings associated with the agentless passive and active alternants , and in some contexts different truth-conditional meanings , these differences might reasonably be disregarded .
10 These factors might well be seen as socially beneficial .
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