Example sentences of "might be [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was genuinely concerned that Bev might be under some stress or pressure from the many attacks she was dealing with . |
| 2 | Who knows how hard they might be along this slash through the fiercest mountain crag in Wales ? |
| 3 | Attractive he might be to some people , but he was out of her league and anyway , she was n't interested . |
| 4 | This tells us nothing about the degree of harmony in the village — everyone might be at each other 's throats — but it does indicate that within the village there is a reasonably close-knit social pattern , rather than a disparate group of individuals who happen , coincidentally , to live in the same locality . |
| 5 | Somehow she had expected six inches of semi-darkness , and half a face enquiring suspiciously what her business might be at this hour . |
| 6 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
| 7 | To pick up David 's point now , if this is the client who 's already running the house , the mortgage , it 's , you know , a few years old , they want to take out a further advance , for some house improvements , or something , then obviously they now need more , so it might be at this stage we then want a P S P for the remaining , you know , ten years , eleven years , twelve years , or whatever , because they 've borrowed some more money from the building society . |
| 8 | For instance , the users and data might be at different sites , support in their use and access could be provided from a additional site , and the extracted data processed at a further one . |
| 9 | Whereas in one , an iron axehead may be a tool used for woodworking and cutting down trees , in another it may be a unit of value — a cow might be worth two axeheads , for example . |
| 10 | This was not primarily due to some old-fashioned desire to pile up reserves , however comforting that might be for central bankers and useful when it came to securing influence by making loans to weaker countries . |
| 11 | The Focus Activity asks you to choose an alternative way of delivering care ; to describe how this could be implemented in your situation ; and what the consequences might be for individual clients , costs and staffing . |
| 12 | This might be for disciplinary reasons or for redundancies arising from , perhaps , reduced staffing needs or curricular changes . |
| 13 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 14 | We have suggested that properly coordinated motility might be of crucial importance in promoting acid clearance , and could therefore be an unrecognised factor in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulceration . |
| 15 | As a result of which , she had to acknowledge ruefully , everything in her wardrobe , while it might be of good quality , was strictly practical . |
| 16 | Moreover , a secretary attached to a legation or an embassy and not to an individual minister or ambassador , and remaining at his post over a fairly long period , could become a valuable source of information about local conditions : this might be of great help to a new head of mission coming to a strange country of which he knew little . |
| 17 | These might be of equal size or one small one and one larger one . |
| 18 | We knew that the districts under study were fairly advanced in the adoption of the care programme approach , and we wanted to find out how representative they might be of other authorities , so we studied the mental health chapters of community care plans to supplement our information . |
| 19 | As for the doorstep survey , this was carried out in order to generalize about the speech of the city as a whole , and in this way to be able to describe modifications to the vernacular that might be of general import . |
| 20 | No matter how serious an infringement there might be of that act they are not subject to any sort of criminal offence . |
| 21 | An excellent comparison of Athenian and Spartan habits and philosophy is given by Thucydides , in the mouth of Pericles ( ii.39 ) : ‘ our city is open to the world , and we have no periodical deportations in order to Trevent people observing or finding out secrets which might be of military advantage to the enemy . ’ |
| 22 | That is why I willingly sent him anything I thought might be of sufficient merit to justify him , as a publisher , pronouncing upon it . |
| 23 | In the high grade group , a Cox 's multivariate analysis was performed to identify which of the following variables such as age , extension to adjacent organs or serosal invasion , stage and mode of treatment ( surgery , chemotherapy , or the combination of both ) might be of independent significance in predicting mortality . |
| 24 | Even if my assessment of its implications concerning the relative order of emergence of the intentional ingredient and of syntactic structure were held to be incorrect , the mechanism of that evolution might be of independent interest , and be seen as bearing on other problems besides ( especially in developmental psychology and theoretical linguistics ) . |
| 25 | Were there any things that were given away , that might be of high value to the opposition , given away for less than nothing . |
| 26 | A barn with a central threshing floor would be at least three structural bays in length , each bay being perhaps 4.25–5.5m ( about 14–18ft ) long , although the distance between roof trusses could be smaller ( say , 3m ( 10ft ) ) , the bays might be of different lengths and the simple triangular roof trusses might not span more than 5.5–6m ( 18-19-1/2ft ) ( Plate 3 ) . |
| 27 | Hum. , 1908–13 ) for the purpose of giving graduates of the College opportunity to travel at such time in their careers as might be of most value to them either by enabling them to broaden their experience of other countries and their peoples or to carry out research . |
| 28 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he murmured , and then suggested that he might be of further help to her . |
| 29 | If you have any information which might be of special interest to our readers please send it to the Presbytery . |
| 30 | Yeah that might be of those situations with the referee being over protective towards the goalkeeper . |