Example sentences of "might [vb infin] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they might 've been up to . |
| 2 | In , in this one it might 've been slightly easier because everything was spelled out you had to do you had to do carpenting , you had to do electrical . |
| 3 | That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ? |
| 4 | For non-phobic clients , homework tasks might include being more assertive in a specific situation at work , involvement in a relaxing leisure activity , or cutting down on prescribed tranquillizers . |
| 5 | More even than our present MPs he would have to ensure that any success he might achieve was widely reported . |
| 6 | However , the allocation of index terms and the variety of forms in which concepts or names might appear are not controlled . |
| 7 | this is a structural change , what you could do or the easiest thing would be to do was just to incorporate a dummy variable , right , if you incorporated a dummy variable to a erm and to explain the and to take out the effect of structural change , right , er in that dummy inclusive model , right , all the diagnostic test statistics were okay , right , you would use , you would , therefore , use that , that particular model what we might do is just see if that is the case erm so if you come out of er diagnostics , work towards the data processing environment and generate a dummy variable right , so if you go into the erm data processing environment if it 's in the er sort of process plot option what we 'll do create a dummy variable call it D and let D pull zero press the return key and then edit D oh and if you just set erm observations for |
| 8 | Well what I might do is just put one soap in each cos it |
| 9 | Recently , Eagleton , in denying the total centrality of the class struggle , reached a point that some might claim was no longer compatible with Marxism . |
| 10 | As we have already discussed , bright light acts as a time-cue in humans and so might be helping patients not only because it fell in a critical period ( though how this might work is still not known ) , but in addition , or instead , because it adjusted the body clock and so removed a conflict of timing between the patient 's body clock and his sleep/wake rhythm . |
| 11 | The risk that this might occur is why in general terms ‘ everybody ’ does not do this when interest rates are positioned in this way . |
| 12 | The answers that his analysis might produce were not intended for the enlightenment of participants but for the enlightenment of anthropologists . |
| 13 | The only chance I might have is when he comes in with the tray . |
| 14 | While the Vale of York and the Wold country might have been reasonably fruitful , the province as a whole lived close to the margin of subsistence — so much so that periodic military activity on the Border was invariably handicapped by the need to import virtually all supplies , even of forage . |
| 15 | In view of the widespread discussion ( and agreement ) about IT skill shortages during 1984 , it might have been reasonably expected that very high proportions of Advanced Course students would have jobs to go to at the end of their courses . |
| 16 | He might have been rather less relieved if he could have read her mind . |
| 17 | Also , half a capful might have been rather a lot , weight for weight . |
| 18 | There were some irreverent proposals to perform the ultimate experiment and try injecting material extracted from Ungar 's brain into his critics — a human trial that I suspect Ungar himself might have been rather in favour of ! |
| 19 | ‘ There is no doubt as to the general rule stated in Leake on Contracts to which I have already referred , that money paid voluntarily — that is to say , without compulsion or extortion or undue influence , and , of course , I may add without any fraud on the part of the person to whom it is paid , and with knowledge of all the facts , though paid without any consideration , or in discharge of a claim not due , or a claim which might have been successfully resisted , can not be recovered back . |
| 20 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 21 | At the same time , the timber structure ( 2a ) might have been partially ( or totally ? ) rebuilt , though the details are unclear . |
| 22 | At least three examples of unitary affinity are apparent in this region and , therefore , three workshops may have existed in the early/mid-fourth century ( all of which might have been partially contemporary ) . |
| 23 | The reports we commissioned on group discussions and depth interviews with people who might have been particularly vulnerable to the risk of serious credit problems ( Appendix II ) , and on the experience of clients of the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( Appendix III ) , were designed to throw some light on such problems . |
| 24 | They went in behind Sir George , who waved his huge cone of light around the dark , cramped , circular space , illuminating a semi-circular bay window , a roof carved with veined arches and mock-mediaeval ivy-leaves , felt-textured with dust , a box-bed with curtains still hanging , showing a dull red under their pall of particles , a fantastically carved black wooden desk , covered with beading and scrolls , and bunches of grapes and pomegranates and lilies , something that might have been either a low chair or a prie-dieu , heaps of cloth , an old trunk , two band boxes , a sudden row of staring tiny white faces , one , two , three , propped against a pillow . |
| 25 | ‘ A busy night , ’ said Stan , and it might have been either a statement or a question . |
| 26 | A tug passed , flying a white house flag with the red cross of St George , and with a funnel might have been either cream or white . |
| 27 | The view that ‘ the war might have been over today ’ was said to be common among women in country localities . |
| 28 | Leo could n't bear to think what she meant , what she might have been through . |
| 29 | She might have been pretty once , but not any more . |
| 30 | Staying in Blackpool to ride out the storm might have been unduly bullish , while retreating to London could have prompted undue alarm bells . |