Example sentences of "and might be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McLeish took her briskly through the course , making the now familiar speech about Angela Morgan 's death being treated as a case of murder , which meant taking statements from everyone who had been associated with her and might be helpful . |
| 2 | As has been previously mentioned , the development of other means of automatic detection would provide greater benefits and might be capable of monitoring the progress of a fire and the success of fire fighting in addition to functioning as early warning devices . |
| 3 | This fault has also occurred in German and Swiss PWRs and might be present in PWRs in Sweden , Spain and the Netherlands . |
| 4 | This requires a little force and might be awkward in tight corners . |
| 5 | That it might be centrally implicated , however , adds to the overall impression that the stimulus to efficiency that that the market undoubtedly , though variably , creates , is achieved at a high price , and might be achievable with fewer side-effects by other means . |
| 6 | ‘ My immediate family knew only that I was mad enough to go to savage lands where I would live in the jungle , menaced by lions and snakes , and might be lucky to escape the cooking pot . |
| 7 | And if Oreste would not recognise , and might be afraid , of her , what of his father ? |
| 8 | Many of the service professions are now addressing this issue in their own training and might be glad of the help of specialised linguists . |
| 9 | He thinks there are some people around , some Poles , who might still have a grudge against Mills , and might be happy to see him murdered . ’ |
| 10 | The following excerpt from the articles was cited by Morland J. as an example of the allegations as they might affect the reputation of the council and might be defamatory : |
| 11 | Quorum says that it has some Echo Logic-type technology in development that it calls Autoport and might be interested in a cross-licensing deal — see page four . |
| 12 | Of course , a rule permitting the directors to defend the company from a poorly-managed predator would be perfectly coherent ( and might be desirable ) , but this would not be because the entity has an intrinsic significance that merits protection , but rather because the rule would serve the rational purpose of protecting the interests of groups other than the shareholders who would be adversely affected by a change in control . |
| 13 | Without this protection , particularly frail customers could be discriminated against and might be unable to counter the discrimination on their own behalf |
| 14 | Such a crack is far too small to see under the optical microscope and might be hard to see with an electron microscope . |
| 15 | He also claims that a dispute between the two countries in 1988–89 over a new Japanese fighter plane , the FSX , arose because America was afraid it would be too good and might be able to shoot down American aircraft . |
| 16 | He had a clear , incisive mind and might be able to blow some of the cobwebs away so that she knew what to say to Amsterdam when the time came . |
| 17 | In an industrial situation , for instance , the witness can often give helpful corroborative evidence as to the process of the machinery involved in the accident , and might be able to give some useful suggestions about previous complaints and the personalities of the parties involved . |
| 18 | And I think one of the things that we hopefully might be able to think about , and might be able , not learn , because you know it already , you do n't need to learn it , is how we can increase our contribution to what the depot doing , by perhaps having a really close look at what we 're actually carrying . |
| 19 | And might be able to do it before the weekend perhaps |
| 20 | It was a system that worked and might be attractive to farmers in stock areas . |
| 21 | He opened by stating that he felt ‘ that a complete separation of crime from sin would not be good for the moral law and might be disastrous for the criminal ’ . |
| 22 | That did not surprise her , for Miss Watson lived at the school-house next door , and might be busy with her last minute chores . |
| 23 | Maxim had an hour and a half to wait for a train to Osnabrück , and half changed his mind about hiring a car , but that meant lots of signatures , and might be difficult to hand back if he flew home on a trooping flight from RAF Gütersloh . |