Example sentences of "might be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say ‘ I might be the only one , while she has five friends . ’ |
| 2 | She might be the only one brave enough . |
| 3 | Well , someone was calling for help , and she , Deborah Dawson , might be the only person to hear that call ; so she had to answer it . |
| 4 | At least sufficient transport was found to carry these Special Forces from one action to another in a land battle , a far cry from 1940 when one or two trucks might be the only vehicles a Commando had on its strength . |
| 5 | And you and I might be the only ones between your friend and the bullet . |
| 6 | It might be the only city in the world that speaks ‘ English proper ’ , and English is easily the reigning language in the financial world , but success can breed complacency , and complacency sloppiness . |
| 7 | It now seemed that military action to push Tito 's forces out of the area might be the only course . |
| 8 | Recently some migrant African and Chinese populations have also been found to be susceptible to non-insulin dependent diabetes , and people of European origin might be the only true ‘ low susceptibility ’ group . |
| 9 | Well , in some countries this might be the only opportunity learners get to hear extensive chunks of the language , so you could treat it as a " language bath " session and concentrate on helping your learners come away with a general idea of the content . |
| 10 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 11 | hence , it might be the only instrument available giving direct turn indication . |
| 12 | And he might be the only surviving link we have to the Project . |
| 13 | Many of Weber 's contemporaries supposed that with the decline of religion the aesthetic realm might be the only place of retreat for any type of meaningful life — conduct in the face of encroaching purposive rationality ( Whimster 1987 ) . |
| 14 | They might be the only thing she has here which he used personally . ’ |
| 15 | Sometimes the landowning class might be the only social group possessing the qualities of leadership and the minimum of education without which an officer was useless . |
| 16 | This might be the only chance she would have . |
| 17 | For now the Council is looking at a number of ways to save money , if they DO decide to close the pool , these might be the only swimmers left later this summer . |
| 18 | At night , it might be the only resource that can help . |
| 19 | Where the product is bulky and expensive to transport relative to its value , licensing might be the only way to produce that good at a competitive price . |
| 20 | Graham reckons Sid 's won it so I might be the only bloke who has n't won it yet . |
| 21 | It was brownish-yellow and very tattered and looked as if it might be the real thing . |
| 22 | Allied misgivings as to what might be the real meaning of Spanish " non-belligerence " were deepened by the way Spain appeared to be moving closer to the Axis in the autumn of 1940 . |
| 23 | One reason might be the unsatisfactory state of the law under the Offences against the Person Act 1861 : that Act fails to provide both a clear and defensible gradation of offences and any general offences of threatening violence against another . |
| 24 | Examples might be the distinguishing features of God or of so-called noumenal selves . |
| 25 | The longer-term one might be the Soviet regime itself . |
| 26 | It is therefore not unreasonable to propose that bile salts might be the inhibitory component in the venous effluent . |
| 27 | An alternative might be the new technology bringing us to the leisure society with machines doing all the productive work and people freed to follow their own leisure pursuits . |
| 28 | ‘ Keeping you awake might be the new challenge . ’ |
| 29 | So do they think it might be the new clutch or was it the when you went |
| 30 | At one extreme , there might be the virtual monoculture of the new agricultural areas , imposed by their orientation towards a remote world market , and intensified , if not created , by the characteristic mechanism of foreign merchant firms in the great port cities which controlled this export trade — the traditional Greeks who ran the Russian corn trade through Odessa , the Bunges and Borns from Hamburg who were about to fulfil the same function for the River Plate countries from Buenos Aires and Montevideo . |