Example sentences of "might [be] [vb pp] with [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As John Scoble , with his intolerantly rigid evangelical attitudes , rose to become a prominent administrator and organiser of antislavery bodies , he became a target as a sectarian who had apparently denounced one liberal-minded Quaker reformer as ‘ degenerate ’ for suggesting that the heathen might be treated with mercy . |
| 2 | began to help , thinking that she might either find some opportune moment for introducing her own problems , or that she might be treated with news of her mother 's latest triumph . |
| 3 | America as a whole might be drunk with self-congratulation , but the Texans went further : they were totally unaware even of the other States . |
| 4 | The distribution of these Scandinavian materials might be equated with south Scandinavian derived metalwork found in Kent ( Hawkes and Pollard 1981 ) and with Norwegian derived metalwork in eastern England ( Hines 1984 ) . |
| 5 | He might be connected with defence , aerospace , intelligence or the arms trade . |
| 6 | In the case of the housewife there are two possible discrepancies which might be connected with dissatisfaction : that between the status of housewife and the status of the husband 's work , and the discrepancy between the status of the housewife 's own present or previous employment work and her status as a housewife . |
| 7 | This is not to say that self-referral must be sought with undue enthusiasm , although facilities for it might be extended with benefit to many youngsters . |
| 8 | Trucks or waggons might be filled with ore ( or waste ) mined above level , as well as the deep mined stuff . |
| 9 | She reviewed possible officials who might be contacted with profit , various other relations including her Uncle Willie , and influential members of the House of Lords . |
| 10 | No matter how securely the front door might be barred with entry codes and passwords , American operators , holding the key to the secret back door , could break into the PROMIS systems operated by Cyprus , Egypt , Syria , Pakistan , Turkey , Kuwait , Israel , Jordan , Iran and Iraq whenever they wished , access the data stored there and get out again without arousing the slightest suspicion that the security of those systems had been breached — an incalculable advantage , not only in collecting and verifying intelligence data from those countries , but also in assessing the actual , as opposed to the professed , level of cooperation extended by their governments . ) |
| 11 | Or they might be mixed with onion and garlic softened in butter then stewed with carrots and rosemary to go with roast lamb for lunch . |
| 12 | Similar arguments might be advanced with respect to the measures of economic deprivation , which are presented as items five and six in table 9.7 and are given extremely low weight in the assessment of GRE , compared with the multiple use of housing indicators and of measures of ethnic origin . |
| 13 | Official press reports quoted the Prime Minister as saying that normal freedoms might be curbed with effect from Dec. 4 , and further stated that he had ordered the dissolution of a " spider 's web " of bodies alleged to support the outlawed Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) [ see pp. 38790-91 for Feb. 1992 introduction of state of emergency ] . |
| 14 | A compromise might be agreed with whaling nations who dissent from voting for moratoria by allowing them a more restricted quota than originally proposed . |
| 15 | in satisfaction of the whole sum of £2,090 19s. , subject to the condition that , unless the balance of the principal debt was paid by instalments , the whole might be enforced with interest , turned to the question whether payment of a lesser sum is good satisfaction : ] |