Example sentences of "might [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means changing people 's way of thinking and working , maybe breaking down fences and getting them to share information they might for some reason be reluctant to divulge . |
| 2 | But several readers had pointed out that if evil could not create , was only good perverted , then presumably the orcs had been by nature good and might in some way be saved ; Tolkien certainly balked at calling them ‘ irredeemable ’ , see Letters , pp. 195 , 355 . |
| 3 | The Chief Secretary then sought to imply that the Government might in some way be forced by the EC to extend the coverage of VAT . |
| 4 | The leak of a memorandum from the British Treasury in early February suggesting that the Government Art Collection might in some sense be ‘ privatised ’ unleashed a storm of protest in the national press . |
| 5 | Soldiers , psychiatrists , and priests might on this basis be classified together as social controllers ; doctors and perhaps teachers should be classified as sustainers : the proper theoretical place for them is as the maintenance engineers of labour power ; playwrights , philosophers , accountants , sociologists , and lawyers must be classified together as conceptive ideologists . |
| 6 | In fact , we found that agency workers and part-time workers might to some extent be substitutes for one another , in that the higher the proportion of the work force that was part-time , the lower the likelihood that the establishment was using such temporary workers . |
| 7 | We sought advice on the matter from officers of the main teacher unions and were told that , although it was not the policy of any union to place an embargo on questionnaires from bodies separate from the LEA , nevertheless attitudes and morale might at that time be such as to produce little willingness to respond . |
| 8 | But Douglas , concerned about numbers , was against any diminution of their main assembly which might at any time be faced with confronting Balliol 's entire army . |
| 9 | It might at any moment be lifted away from me utterly and I would be left exposed . |
| 10 | I might at this moment be living in anguish with Peter Datchett . |
| 11 | And Sadler knew that he would strike a responsive note with his claim that the voluntary evening classes were ‘ wasteful of human material which might by timely care be made more serviceable to the State ’ . |