Example sentences of "might [prep] [adj] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Proudie makes an immediate impression when introduced to Mr. Harding and Dr. Grantly because when they are shown into the new bishop 's study , they see Dr. Proudie , Mr. Slope and also , to their surprise , Mrs. Proudie ‘ an innovation for which a precedent might in vain be sought in all the annals of the Barchester bishopric ! ’ |
| 2 | This structure is not , as might at first be imagined , derived from a fantasy of power relations modelled on a medieval joust but from the phenomenological account of the constitution of knowledge that works according to the structure of a subject perceiving an object , a same/other dialectic in which the other is first constituted by the same through its negation as other before being incorporated within it . |
| 3 | The process of proletarianisation itself is a more complex issue than might at first be supposed . |
| 4 | This last is less of a restriction than might at first be supposed . |
| 5 | It follows that the contrast between them and Schoenberg 's setting of Dehmel , Schlaf ( Op. 2 ) and Stefan George ( Op. 15 ) is not as great as might at first be thought . |
| 6 | Second , the actual cost , both in time and money , can be very much less than might at first be anticipated . |
| 7 | Compiling this listing has proved that there are more Japanese aircraft extant than might at first be envisaged . |
| 8 | Both the monoamine oxidase inhibitors and the tricyclics were discovered empirically , but they aroused great hopes that the chemical disturbances in the brains of depressed people might at last be understood . |