Example sentences of "might [adv] be [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was true that she worried more about her mother now she was living near by than she had when she was living in the Tuscan hills , but that might only be because of the possibility that she would call without warning . |
| 2 | For the woman in our example , it might just be that in fact she has a very small frame and she should therefore be 8 st 2 lb. |
| 3 | If you take photographs as a hobby , you are likely to have produced at least one quality snap in your time and it might just be that a magazine would find it useful . |
| 4 | So it could It might just be that that 's causing the problem . |
| 5 | It might just be that the best way forward in Africa is by falling back on the spirit of silif , and building on it . |
| 6 | But it might just be that we ca n't have both and we ca n't ensure that people vote from the right from moral motivation rather than personal interest and we ca n't ensure vote |
| 7 | So it could It might just be that that 's causing the problem . |
| 8 | It might simply be that you are a person with small wrists but a large body frame , wide shoulders , wide rib-cage , and so on . |
| 9 | It might simply be that the amount of learning involved in such a task was not great enough to generate biochemical changes big enough to be measured . |
| 10 | It might even be that the whole of our galaxy was required . |
| 11 | It might even be that the very military orderliness with which the Germans performed their mining affairs could have resulted in alienation . |
| 12 | Christ , it might even be when he was driving ! |
| 13 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 14 | But it might well be that an associatively activated X is simply not salient enough to produce effects of a measurable size . |
| 15 | It might well be that the researcher decided to start inside the home with individual activities , and lead on to collective ones . |
| 16 | No , the they 'll be a pupil input , it might well be that as a department there 's a decision that the pupil would not write |
| 17 | Held , allowing the appeal , the problem was considered in Mann ( 1972 ) 56 Cr.App.R. 750 where Lord Widgery C.J. had said that if an accused remained silent in response to every question it might well be that the evidence of the onesided dialogue should not be admitted . |
| 18 | The immediate answer might well be that one is making a financial profit and the other a loss . |
| 19 | Thus though it might well be that the very short-term phases of memory are dependent on the continued electrical activity of the brain — and there will be more to be said about this in due course — in the longer term any persistent record or trace must demand some more permanent incarnation . |
| 20 | For these reasons , it might well be that the courts will be reluctant to interfere with the judgment of the policeman on the spot , especially if he is an experienced officer . |
| 21 | It might well be that upon their selection the Roman Catholics were appraised of the atmosphere in England and advised not to be too obvious in their worship , galling though that would have been to those proud and independent men . |
| 22 | It might well be that some of them had work as servants , or in agriculture — but there would be strong competition for the latter , for quite apart from the regular farm labourers there were a considerable number of workmen not as fully employed at the mine as perhaps they would have wished . |
| 23 | In certain cases it might well be that the defendant 's ignorance will not help him . |
| 24 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 25 | it might well be that one of the one of the forms could go down there to have a morning as part of this project to do |
| 26 | yep it 's just that some of the cottages tend to be a bit smaller so that it might well be that we can get you something where there 's a perhaps ground floor extension or whatever okay . |
| 27 | So it might well be that we do n't get the S I S people that we previously thought we might do . |
| 28 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 29 | This variation might either be because these forms are tied in some way to a particular kind of context and so are not freely transferable , or because the second context imposes inhibiting conditions which prevent learners from accessing and applying what they know . |
| 30 | If the prosecutor were required to prove that the assailant knew or was reckless about the question whether his victim was a policeman , it might occasionally be that the assailant would escape conviction of the section 51 charge . |