Example sentences of "might be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , I , er I thought you might be watching Love Hurts , you 're not following it ? |
| 2 | While the convention might be to conduct attitude surveys , the Profitboss actually listens to his people . |
| 3 | Did n't anyone at the company realise they might be causing pollution ? |
| 4 | Because oxidants damage DNA and are also mutagenic it was of interest to determine whether DNA damage might be causing induction of the CL100 gene . |
| 5 | The evidence must show that there was a bystander within sight or hearing of the defendant who might be caused harassment , alarm or distress as a result of what the defendant was doing . |
| 6 | Well I 've got a feeling that if you do a video we 're gon na reorganise anyway in the light of er what 's going to happen in near future , getting rid of chief superintendents and things like that , we might be wasting money again . |
| 7 | I have disagreed with the political views of the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) on many occasions , but he has just highlighted what might be called self-government and he rightly pointed out — |
| 8 | Passages such as verses three and four in ‘ The Missing ’ which describes with great nostalgia which I think might be called sentimentality , the joys of the past now gone . |
| 9 | Accordingly this type of proof might be called proof by minimum counterexample . |
| 10 | One major difference is that efficiency audits mix comments on monopoly abuse and performance with a great deal of what might be called management consultancy . |
| 11 | Yeah , it might be called Setup , install |
| 12 | He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort . |
| 13 | These new findings might be called Lamarckism . |
| 14 | The post , which might be called Deputy Vice-Chancellor , is to be advertised . |
| 15 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 16 | Secondly , there are those colleges which in America might be called community colleges : they offer a mix of both advanced and non-advanced courses to students with a wide range of ability and frequently provide a high proportion of part-time courses . |
| 17 | What we were offered , if definition is needed , might be called ballet-pantomime : it was certainly not opera . |
| 18 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 19 | The second pragmatic process might be called application . |
| 20 | They were all 6 of them in fact what might be called tourist towns , like Torquay , Exeter , Bath , Weymouth etc. — the very towns which in fact had travel guides published by this firm . |
| 21 | What is especially fascinating about this text is that a rehabilitation of masculinity coexists with an ironic repudiation of it , and a critique of what might be called masculinity 's cultural unconscious . |
| 22 | Do you hold any specific beliefs about what might be called beauty ? |
| 23 | The answer might be to reintroduce transport allowances , but only on Tuesday the Racehorse Owners ' Association voted against that . |
| 24 | It 's worrying how many excellent drama teachers have been troubled by the idea that they might be teaching theatre skills as an integral part of their non-performance work . |
| 25 | Thus , a favoured commercial organisation doing large business with a bank might be charged interest at ‘ 1 per cent over base ’ while an individual client might be paying 4 or 5 per cent over base for an overdraft . |
| 26 | Despite a failure to negotiate a comprehensive peace settlement for Cambodia during the second Jakarta Informal Meeting ( JIM ) in February 1989 [ see p. 36464 ] and during the Paris conference on Cambodia in August [ see pp. 36848-49 ] , certain concessions offered in late 1989 by the resistance groups and the Phnom Penh government indicated that a political solution to the Cambodian problem might be taking shape [ for acceptance in January 1990 of an Australian peace proposal by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council see pp. 37186-87 ] . |
| 27 | She reported sternly to a meeting of the management team that word-of-mouth recruitment might be taking place . |
| 28 | This indicated that transinstitutionalization might be taking place . |
| 29 | Colonial government is presented as a largely apolitical , administrative business , unrelated to any economic and social changes which might be taking place as a consequence of colonial domination and exploitation ( Eisenstadt 1963 ) . |
| 30 | A weakness of this kind of presentation is that concentrating on how the shares in one part of the distribution compare ignores changes that might be taking place in other parts of the distribution . |