Example sentences of "might [adv] [be] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trench warfare of the early 1980s was replaced by more subtle forms of guerrilla conflict , in which the guiding principles are no longer so straightforward , yet the consequences of change may be rather more significant , to the extent that the '80s as a whole might justifiably be seen as a period of structural change . |
| 2 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 3 | His aim might unkindly be described as the creating of rococo tragedy with Aristotle 's support . |
| 4 | Particular services are examined by two writers closely involved with implementation : Nick Raynsford looks it recent developments in policies on housing , and David Mallen considers how education might effectively be used as a key instrument of social improvement . |
| 5 | The West Wing contained chambers which Sinclair Hood ( 1971 , p. 66 ) interprets as state apartments , although they might better be interpreted as sanctuaries ; the chambers behind are admitted , by their excavator , Nicolas Platon ( 1971 , p. 257 ) , to be ritual in nature . |
| 6 | Given their present configuration , Opposition Front-Bench Members might better be described as a hot dog . |
| 7 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 8 | By the time the interviews were to start , there was an atmosphere prevalent that might best be described as ‘ heightened excitement ’ . |
| 9 | They might thus be characterised as the two Ugly Sisters who through their actions succeeded in making the British economy the Cinderella of the industrialised world — and the USA could be cast as the Bad Fairy who ensured that the Ugly Sisters always got their way . |
| 10 | They might be dressed as soldiers — he had noticed with growing suspicion that there were far more soldiers on the streets in recent months — or they might just be posing as ordinary officers of the law . |
| 11 | The danger about it all is that Mains and his lieutenants , Peter Thorburn and Earle Kirton , have based their selection plans and playing philosophies on what might later be regarded as insecure grounds . |
| 12 | Any criteria for defining ‘ privileged information ’ , or what the ‘ dangers ’ are in revealing such matters as dispositions ( of manpower ) are so vaguely incorporated as to ensure that few will risk submitting an essay without approval , which might later be assessed as an ‘ improper disclosure ’ . |
| 13 | Fearful of punitive damages , companies will avoid doing anything that might later be seen as an admission of guilt . |
| 14 | Of course they are for internal consideration only , but because there is the intention of some discussion at June CED Conference on Government Joint Funding and on Resource Sharing , I thought these two papers might profitably be circulated as background material . |
| 15 | The Vendor is not party in relation to the Business or subject to any contract , covenant , commitments or arrangement of an onerous , unusual or long-term nature or having any provision which might reasonably be regarded as material for disclosure to a purchaser for value of the Business nor is it party to any contract likely to be unprofitable or to any contract made otherwise than in the ordinary and usual course of business as now carried on . |
| 16 | The Vendor can not say whether any contracts contain a provision which ‘ might reasonably be regarded as material for disclose to a purchase of the value of the Business ’ . |
| 17 | More generally , the Auvergne might reasonably be seen as representative of many Merovingian dioceses ; Clermont was not a royal capital , nor was it a cult centre of major importance . |
| 18 | Quite a few courses have resulted in the formation ( not always by the library admittedly ) of groups which might generically be termed as ‘ Friends of the library ’ which may become formalized and then act as ‘ lobbyists ’ for the public library in that area . |
| 19 | The transliteration of the original with qwt , in line 3 , reasonably accurately represents the first letter ( which might also be represented as a figure nine if nine has a straight back stroke ) . |
| 20 | The capitulation of the General Council on the 12 May , and its decision to call off the strike without any guarantees that those involved would not be victimized , might also be seen as evidence of failure . |
| 21 | The Child Poverty Action Group might also be seen as an expert and appropriate group to raise social security matters , having been for many years active in campaigning on such matters . |
| 22 | Although this could in theory apply to any subject ( history , for example , may , in certain circumstances be taught with strong classification and framing , or with weak classification and framing ) , it might also be seen as one of the central features of the arts/science divide . |
| 23 | In this case the " no " decision is not a positive rejection of the proposal but an inadequacy of temptation which might also be regarded as a lack of enterprise . |
| 24 | A total ban might also be opposed as an unconstitutional invasion of privacy . |
| 25 | The drift to a cappella solutions might also be interpreted as a reaction to the individualism and subjectivism of the 1960s , both of which have lingered so long in the performance of medieval and ( some ) Renaissance music . |
| 26 | If a worshipper were to make a fetish of his stone or metal image , however , then that might correctly be construed as idolatry , but such an attitude has to be distinguished from the element of sacredness that worshippers often attribute to temples , churches and mosques or to books such as the Bible , the Koran or the Gītā . |
| 27 | As it 's a little bit of all of this , the CMJ might fairly be viewed as someone 's idea of a sick joke . |
| 28 | Such disclosure might now be seen as ‘ best practice ’ . |
| 29 | They were never united in their opposition to the king , and they never found a leader comparable to Hereford and Norfolk in 1297 or Thomas of Lancaster in 1310–11 ; but their opposition reveals the fragility of the political settlement Edward had achieved after 1330 , and the danger that his close associates who had helped him to power might now be seen as a new court clique , the king 's familiares . |
| 30 | In the early 1980s the need to incorporate IT within the teaching of publishing led to participation in industrial panels monitoring the development and adoption of SGML ( Standard Generalized Mark-up Language ) , investment in the first generation of dedicated word-processors , and research into communication protocols between what might now be characterized as taciturn dinosaurs . |