Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's business managers had to come to the rescue when it looked as though the Bill might be lost at Committee Stage . |
| 2 | ‘ Your opinion , then , as a medical man , is that a girl of eleven years old might be kept at work constantly , day after day , year after year , with the intermission of Sunday , without injury to her health ? ’ |
| 3 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 4 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 5 | Formerly it was sufficient that attention might be required at night ; now repeated attention is required involving a carer being awake for a prolonged period or at frequent intervals . |
| 6 | This focus might be provided at South Kensington . |